The world's most comprehensive report on nutrition has just been released and provides new and expansive data highlighting the changing face of malnutrition in Africa. The report ... Read more »
The tally of Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of Congo has reached 426, surpassing the number of cases in the 2000-2001 Uganda outbreak and making it the second worst in ... Read more »
In a hard-hitting report published by The Lancet medical journal, scientists and health experts have said climate change impacts - from heatwaves to worsening storms, floods and ... Read more »
Fexinidazole is a new drug for the treatment of Human African Trypanosomiasis commonly known as sleeping sickness. It is the first all-oral treatment for the disease which is ... Read more »
There has been 4,351 deaths resulting from oesophagus cancer and there will be about 33, 978 cancer deaths by the end of this year according to data released by Doctor Anne ... Read more »
Health workers have launched a door-to-door, four-day blitz to first bring malaria under control, with the aim of cutting suspected Ebola cases in half. Read more »
Over 1,640 cases of yellow fever have been reported as the government aims to vaccinate 26.2 million people against the disease, with support from the World Health Organization, ... Read more »
Narok County Commissioner George Natembeya has said it will also be established whether the girls underwent female genital mutilation during the December holidays. Those found to ... Read more »
The Vice Chairman of Cameroon's National Order of Doctors, Tetani Ekwe, has said that the health and humanitarian needs of the displaced and refugees are increasing daily, yet the ... Read more »
This is despite Kenya adopting the Option B+ programme by Unicef and the joint United Nations Programme on HIV and Aids, where mothers and their newborns receive antiretroviral ... Read more »
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