Doctors at public health institutions have reportedly been forced to use condoms in place of disposable medical gloves as the government struggles to maintain critical supplies to ... Read more »

Rwanda is one of the few developing countries in the world that have successfully achieved universal healthcare, with a scheme touted as one of the most successful on the ... Read more »

President Uhuru Kenyatta has said that the healthcare launch is a great milestone in the transformation of health services in the country. Universal health coverage is one of the ... Read more »

A group of young Nigerians have invented an island where people with albinism live to escape being hunted down and having their limbs hacked off for use in potions. While the ... Read more »

Ebola in the Democratic Republic Congo has now spread to urban areas. The Conversation Africa's Moina Spooner spoke to Mosoka Fallah who was head of case detection during Liberia's ... Read more »

Elections are coming and the African National Congress (ANC) in Gauteng needs to promote its successes, but it can't escape the Life Esidimeni debacle, writes Greg Nicolson for The ... Read more »

Government has rejected striking junior doctors' demands for U.S. dollar wages with Health and Child Care Minister Obadiah Moyo describing the idea as "awkward". Zimbabwe's junior ... Read more »

Doctors in Mauritius can now prescribe physical activity to their patients as a measure to fight NCDs like hypertension and diabetes. Only 23% of the adult population meet the ... Read more »

Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Denis Mukwege is a Congolese gynaecologist and Pentecostal pastor. He founded and works in Panzi Hospital in Bukavu in DR Congo, where he specialises in ... Read more »

The head of state is aware, he recognises his representatives, he sees well, he talks well," Prime Minister Emmanuel Issoze Ndonget said after returning to Libreville following a ... Read more »