Pharmacist and Public Health Specialist Chijioke Nwosu writes on the release of a new typhoid vaccine approved by WHO, that could prevent typhoid fever in children and also reduce ... Read more »
The poison has claimed the lives of at least 500 children in Zamfara State in the past eight years when it was first discovered by MSF in 2010. The government has now said that the ... Read more »
President Kenyatta has underscored the importance of immunisation as an important component of the ongoing drive towards the realisation of Universal Health Coverage for Kenya, ... Read more »
Eight women who were Medecins Sans Frontieres employees have said in a report that the global charity has a "toxic" culture, including "blatant and widespread" use of local sex ... Read more »
A report by the Special Investigative Unit, which probed how former Gauteng health chief Brian Hlongwa spent over U.S.$89 million on expenses, including limousine-chauffeured spa ... Read more »
The first set of enabling legislation paving the way for universal healthcare in South Africa has been gazetted by Cabinet, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has announced. ... Read more »
In vitro fertilization is a process of fertilization where the egg is harvested and combined with sperm outside the body, in a laboratory, and once fertilized, is placed back into ... Read more »
Lack of safe water is a growing problem everywhere. In poorer countries, the risk is massive. The World Health Organization found that in Nigeria - Africa's most populous nation - ... Read more »
Doctors Without Borders has welcomed the South African National Department of Health's announcement that it would use bedaquiline, a promising new oral medicine, instead of ... Read more »
The Democratic Republic of Congo has extensive experience in successfully containing Ebola outbreaks (the one which was reported in May is the ninth since the first in 1976). This ... Read more »
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