Zimbabwe: Parliament to Summon Guvamatanga Over Global Fund Contribution

New Zimbabwe

Government is yet to disburse its contribution to the Global Fund that was supposed to unlock nearly half a billion dollars from the international health funder to support HIV/AIDS… Read more »

Ghana: Forest Partnerships Bear Fruit for Local Communities [opinion]

Thomson Reuters Foundation

The often-marginalised communities who live in the vicinity of Ghana's forests have often had little or no say in how they were run. What's more, until fairly recently, locals… Read more »

Zimbabwe: Mothers Not Bound By Law to Sleep On Hospital Benches - Ziyambi

New Zimbabwe

Government does not accommodate breastfeeding mothers whose children would have been admitted at hospitals, Justice Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi told Parliament. Read more »

Kenya: Patients at KNH on Their Own as Workers Go on Strike

Nairobi News

Workers at Kenyatta National Hospital have downed their tools to protest delayed disbursement of improved salaries and allowances. Read more »

Kenya: MoH nveils Chemotherapy Center at Bomet's Longisa Referral Hospital

Capital FM

A chemotherapy Center was on Monday unveiled at the Longisa County Referral Hospital, Bomet County, becoming one of the ten county chemotherapy units that the Ministry of Health… Read more »

Namibia: Campaign to Eliminate Hepatitis E

Namibian

Communities need to work together to eliminate hepatitis E, health executive director Ben Nangombe said on Saturday. Read more »

Ghana: MP Organises Medical Screening for Over 700 Constituents [press release]

Ghana Govt.

Mrs. Barbara Oteng - Gyasi, the Member of Parliament for the Prestea Huni-Valley Constituency, has organised a two-day health screening exercise for 700 constituents. Read more »

Ghana: Seikwa Residents Receive Free Health Screening [press release]

Ghana Govt.

LOVING HEARTS GC International has screened over 1000 residents in Seikwa and its surrounding communities in the Tain District for health-related complications for free. Read more »

South Africa: Remembering David Sanders - a Humble, Visionary Public Health Activist [analysis]

The Conversation Africa

The sudden death of public health scholar Professor David Sanders has left people across the globe shocked and with a deep sense of loss. David was still, at the age of 74,… Read more »

Kenya: Governors Hesitant to Support Medics' Training

Nation

Kenya faces the risk of an even more severe shortage of specialist doctors. Read more »

Nigeria: Health Officials, Lawmakers Brainstorm On Agenda for Sector

Premium Times

Principal officers of health committees in the National Assembly and other government officials have outlined an agenda for the health sector for the next four years. Read more »

Ghana: KBTH Applies New Technology for Kidney Stones Treatment

Ghanaian Times

The Korle Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH) has introduced Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy (PCNL) technology, for the treatment of patients suffering from kidney stones diseases. Read more »

Nigeria: Reshaping Nigeria's Family Planning Narrative to Meet FP2020 Goals

Nigeria Health Watch

Young people in Nigeria know more than we think they do about reproductive health. Take for instance, some teens who shared during a focus group discussion in Abuja how they… Read more »

Liberia: Sweden Underscores Importance of Sexual, Reproductive Health

Observer

Elisabeth Harleman: "Earlier this year, Sweden awarded a contract to DKT International that is worth up to US$40 million to the project 'Access Sexual Reproductive Health and… Read more »

Sudan: Doctors - Suspected Cholera Spreading Fast in Sudan's Blue Nile State

Radio Dabanga

Doctors in Sudan's Blue Nile state report that the number of cases of 'acute watery diarrhoea', most possibly caused by cholera, has risen to 40 in state hospitals as of Saturday -… Read more »

Sudan: Sudan Activist - 'Outlaw Toxic Mining or South Kordofan Local Offices Will Be Raided'

Radio Dabanga

Residents of Talodi in South Kordofan barricaded the locality offices and offices of the civil administration on Friday after a mass demonstration across the town against mining… Read more »

West Africa: Launch of the program "POPULATION D'AFRIQUE" on TV5 Monde [press release]

UNFPA in WCA

Dakar, Senegal – 6 September 2019: A new television programme dedicated to population issues in Africa, entitled “Population d’Afrique”, will go on air as… Read more »

South Africa: Make the Sober Choice - Don't Drink During Pregnancy

SAnews.gov.za

The Department of Trade and Industry (dti) will today observe International Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) Day. Read more »

Africa: ARC, Africa CDC Strengthen Disease Outbreak Preparedness

This Day

The African Risk Capacity (ARC) and the Africa Centre for Disease Control (Africa CDC) have signed a partnership agreement to establish a collaborative framework to help African… Read more »

South Africa: NHI Pulse - Inadequate Governance Arrangements Could Be the NHI's Achilles Heel [analysis]

Daily Maverick

A lack of public participation and transparency, and the minister of health being given too much power - exploring some key concerns with NHI's proposed governance arrangements. Read more »

Botswana: Doctor Warns of Diarrhoea in September

Botswana Daily News

Diarrhoea is the second leading cause of death in children under five years, a doctor from the Serowe District Health Management Team has observed. Read more »

Sudan: Doctors Warn of Cholera Epidemic

Radio Dabanga

The Doctors Committee in Blue Nile State warned that a cholera epidemic threatens the country. Spokeswoman Dr Shiraz Ahmed called on the Ministry of Health to intervene urgently… Read more »

Africa: Litigation, a Mechanism to Ensure Justice and End Stigma for Hansen's Disease

IPS

Professor Ai Kurosaka remembers the day she first interacted with a person affected by Hansen's disease. It was 2003 and Kurosaka, then a graduate student of sociology at the… Read more »

Africa: The Business of Social Enterprise

IPS

Organisations supporting people affected by Hansen's disease (leprosy) have social rather than capitalist aims, but they need to take a business-minded approach to their work if… Read more »

Kenya: Kenyan Medics Question Cuban Colleagues' Expertise

Nation

Kenyan doctors are accusing their Cuban counterparts, who were brought into the country last year to boost healthcare services in the counties, of incompetence, giving spark to a… Read more »