June 27
Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe Launches Multi-Sectoral Drug and Substance Abuse Plan
New Zimbabwe
President Emmerson Mnangagwa, Wednesday launched the Zimbabwe Multi-Sectoral Drug and Substance Abuse Plan (2024-2030), coinciding with the International Day Against Drug Abuse and… Read more »
Nigeria: Experts Call for Water Quality Testing in Lagos, Ogun States
This Day
Society for Testing Laboratory Analysts of Nigeria (SOTLAN) has urged the government to conduct comprehensive water quality testing in areas affected by cholera outbreak in Lagos… Read more »
Africa: 90% of Global Tramadol Seizures in Past Five Years Occurred in Africa - UNODC
This Day
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crimes (UNODC), has disclosed that 90 per cent of tramadol seized globally in the past five years occurred in Africa, predominantly in the… Read more »
Nigeria: Cholera - How to Get It Right
Daily Trust
As the editorial of Thisday newspaper, 17th June 2024 puts it, in more than four decades, the Cholera outbreak has been a recurring episode in Nigeria. Still, we are nowhere near… Read more »
Nigeria: Luth Emerges Best Cancer Centre in Nigeria
This Day
The Lagos University Teaching Hospital, LUTH, last weekend emerged the Most Outstanding Oncology Centre in the country at the 10th Nigeria Healthcare Excellence Awards, NHEA, held… Read more »
Nigeria: Tela Maize Controversy - A Threat to Nigeria's Health, Environment, Sovereignty and Food Security?
This Day
In a bid to boost food production and improve pest resistance, Nigeria has embraced Tela maize, a genetically modified crop hailed by its proponents as a revolutionary solution to… Read more »
June 26
Nigeria: Vaccines Are a Modern Day Miracle - Gavi's Role in Sustaining Life-Saving Access [blog]
Nigeria Health Watch
"Thanks to the power of immunisation, the number of childhood deaths from vaccine preventable diseases has fallen by 70% since 2000" -- Dr Sania Nishtar, CEO of Gavi, The Vaccine… Read more »
Nigeria: Nigeria's Cholera Outbreaks - Why They Happen and Are So Hard to Control [analysis]
The Conversation Africa
On 9 June 2024 the Lagos State government declared a cholera outbreak. Three days later, it announced that 324 suspected cases had been reported in the state, including 15 people… Read more »
Nigeria: Why Nigeria Is Yet to Commence Vaccine Production - Minister
Premium Times
The minister said local production of vaccines is imperative to strengthening the country's health sector. Read more »
Congo-Kinshasa: WHO Urges Swift Response As DRC Hit By Mutated Mpox Strain
RFI
The spread of mpox in Africa needs to be addressed urgently, the World Health Organization has warned, as more deaths were reported from a mutated strain of the virus in the… Read more »
South Africa: Mpox Cases Rise to 16, Death Toll Increase to Three
SAnews.gov.za
The Department of Health has confirmed that the country has recorded three more cases of Mpox and another death, as efforts to curb the spread of this infectious disease are… Read more »
Nigeria: Nigeria Records 13,000 New Fistula Cases Each Year - Govt
Leadership
Director-General of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA), Dr. Kelechi Ohiri has disclosed that about 13,000 women in Nigeria come down with obstetric fistula each year. Read more »
Kenya: City Hall to Bear Morgue, Hospital Expenses From Tuesday Riot As 12 Lay Dead
Capital FM
City Hall has committed to clear hospital expenses for injured protestors laying in county-run hospitals and meet morgue expenses for twelve bodies. Read more »
Nigeria: Cholera - State Govt Must End Open Defecation - Minister
Premium Times
The minister urged other states of the federation to emulate Jigawa State, which he noted is the only state declared free of open defecation. Read more »
Nigeria: Report Diversion of Health Funds in Your Communities, Minister Tasks Nigerians
Premium Times
In March, the Nigerian government authorised the disbursement of N25 billion through the BHCPF across states of the federation. Read more »
Nigeria: Cholera - Tinubu Directs FEC to Set Up Committee to Oversee Emergency Operations
Vanguard
·Experts link open defecation to outbreak Read more »
Sudan: Health Minister - We Look Forward Carter Center to Increasing Its Projects in Sudan
SNA
Acting Federal Minister of Health, Dr. Haitham Muhammad Ibrahim, revealed continuation of the Carter Center's projects in Sudan, which include combating river blindness, trachoma,… Read more »
Nigeria: Nigeria Recorded 75,000 New HIV Infections in 2023 - NACA
Vanguard
Dr Temitope Ilori, the Director-General of National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA), said 75,000 new infected HIV cases and 45,000 HIV-related deaths were recorded in 2023. Read more »
Morocco: Moroccan Medical Aid for Gaza Population, Vital Support for Health Emergencies (Doctors)
MAP
Moroccan doctors from various specialties have stressed the great usefulness of the medical aid sent to Gaza population on the Very High Instructions of HM King Mohammed VI,… Read more »
Uganda: 12.4% of Ugandans Live With Disabilities
Nile Post
The Uganda Research Virus Institute (UVRI) and Medical Research Center (MRC) Director, Prof. Moffat Nyirenda has said over 12.4% of Uganda's population lives with disabilities. Read more »
Uganda: Stigma Threatens Antiretroviral Therapy Success
Independent (Kampala)
Concern over young girls and women dropping from HIV care programs undermines efforts Read more »
Nigeria: Stemming Nigeria's Medical Tourism
This Day
The establishment of Godwin Maduka's Medical University will help in curbing medical tourism, reckons Kalu Okoronkwo Read more »
Zimbabwe: 'Prioritise Ending TB By 2030'
The Herald
Parliamentarians have made a commitment to advocate for increased funding for the country's Tuberculosis response in the 2025 national budget as part of measures to prioritise… Read more »
Liberia: 'Multi-Rider Motorcycle Helmet Exchange Poses No Major Public Health Risk' - Says Dr. Dougbeh Chris Nyan
FrontPageAfrica
Dr. Dougbeh Chris Nyan, a Biomedical scientist and public health expert, has reassured the public that the multi-rider exchange of motorcycle helmets does not pose a public health… Read more »
Uganda: Upcountry Health Facilities Grapple With Blood Shortage, Lack of Ambulance Services
Nile Post
Uganda Red Cross Society, in collaboration with the Ministry of Health, have embarked on a supervision visit across four districts. Read more »