Africa: Africa's Health Challenge is a Human Rights Issue

Access to health is a human right. The Constitution of the World Health Organization states that "the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health is one of the… Read more »

South Africa: World's Largest HIV Prevention Trial Wraps Up Door-to-Door Testing

One of the crucial aspects of the largest HIV prevention trial in the world is nearing an end, with HIV counsellors wrapping up four years of door-to-door visits to many thousands… Read more »

Ethiopia: South African University Honours Health Minister

A South African university has lauded an Ethiopian health minister, Dr Amir Aman Hagos, for the country's "amazing progress in a number of sectors, particularly in the area of… Read more »

Nigeria: Why the Death of a Woman after Giving Birth to Quadruplets Should Change Healthcare

Last month the medical professionals at Malumfashi General Hospital, Katsina State, helped Gaje Zubairu bring the blessing of quadruplets into the world. The initial widespread… Read more »

Southern Africa: Graca Machel Urges Better Nutrition for Mothers, Children

One of every four children under five years old in southern Africa suffers from stunted growth in that they are too short for their age, often as a result of inadequate nutrition. Read more »

Africa: Act Now to End Pneumonia

The numbers of children who die of pneumonia each year is staggering. In 2015, a child under five died every two minutes – 920,000 in all – and pneumonia is the leading… Read more »

Africa: Commonly Used Drug May Be Key to Stopping Thousands of Mothers Dying

Roughly every six minutes, a woman somewhere in the world bleeds to death in child birth. But a new medical trial shows that there is a way of combating the problem. Read more »

Africa: Toyin Saraki Says Why Drug Trial for Women is Close to Her Heart

Toyin Saraki was speaking at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine to raise awareness of the issue of postpartum haemorrhage (PPH), which kills around 100,000 women… Read more »

Africa: Stumble over Mugabe Challenges WHO Leadership

A few days ago, the 'insider' development news organization Devex gave the new Director General of the World Health Organization a thumbs up for his first 100 days in office. Read more »

Nigeria: The Future of Health and Promise of Primary Health Care in Nigeria

Third Distinguished Lecture At The Ondo State University Of Medical Sciences, Ondo City, Ondo State, Nigeria Read more »

Africa: AllAfrica Launches Information Initiative for Non-Communicable Diseases

AllAfrica's global platform to provide information on non-communicable diseases (NCDs) debuted today at the World Health Organization's Global Conference on Noncommunicable… Read more »

Africa: It's Time to End the Stigma and Silence Around Abortion

International Safe Abortion Day - celebrated every year on September 28 - marks a woman's fundamental reproductive right to access safe, legal abortion. For many women all over the… Read more »

Africa: Defeating a Major Killer – One Step at a Time

Despite dramatic progress against it, malaria still kills over 420 thousand people a year – an estimated 92 percent of them in sub Saharan Africa. Most of those are children. Read more »

Africa: Study Links Malaria Rapid Diagnostic Tests to More Antibiotic Prescriptions and Finds Ignored Results

Despite dramatic progress against it, malaria still kills nearly half a million people a year, over 90 percent of them children in sub Saharan Africa. Almost all those deaths are… Read more »

Africa: Global Forum on Nicotine, Warsaw, 15-17 June

The 4th edition of the Global Forum on Nicotine took place in Warsaw, from 15 to 17 June. Read more »

Africa: WHO Africa Health Forum App Leads the Way

You can meet the most interesting people at conferences.  If you can make your way through the sea of people to get to them. The first Africa Health Forum organised by… Read more »

Africa: What the G20 Said on Africa

Excerpts most directly applicable to Africa drawn from the declaration of leaders of the G20 nations, issued after the leaders' summit in Hamburg on July 7 and 8: Read more »

Africa: Smoking And Sustainable Development - Potentially Reduced Risk Products, A Viable Solution?

The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that six million people die prematurely every year because of the consumption of tobacco products. The organization estimates that if… Read more »

Africa: Africa Rising - Tedros Elected to Head WHO by Wide Margin

After a bruising end to an aggressive campaign, Africa's choice to lead the UN World Health Organization prevailed over Britain's candidate David Nabarro at the World Health… Read more »

Africa: This World Health Organization Leadership Election Is Crucial, And It's Getting Ugly

There is less than a week to go in the race to be the next Director-General of the World Health Organization. And given the WHO's recent mis-steps, especially with regard to Ebola,… Read more »

Africa: WHO Vote – Will It Save Our Lives?

There is high drama in Geneva as health experts worry whether politics will outweigh accountability and experience in tomorrow's down-to-the-wire balloting for Director-General of… Read more »

Africa: Africa's Final Push for Election of Tedros as WHO Leader

The Chair of African Union Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat, has urged the world to elect Dr. Tedros Adhanom of Ethiopia as the next Director-General of World Health Organization… Read more »

Africa: British Politician Backs Africa's Choice for World Health Post

The former British Secretary for International Development and Conservative member of Parliament is supporting Ethiopian Tedros Adhanom over the UK's David Nabarro in tomorrow's… Read more »

South Africa: Johannesburg Hospital Roof Collapses

The roof at the entrance of Charlotte Maxeke Hospital in Johannesburg collapsed, according to several media reports. Read more »

Africa: Poverty is Sexist, Bill and Melinda Gates Say in Annual Letter

Bill and Melinda Gates have released their annual letter, and this time it is addressed to their "dear friend" Warren Buffett, who donated most of his fortune to the Bill and… Read more »