International Menstrual Hygiene Day is celebrated annually in an effort to bring awareness and to highlight the importance of good menstrual hygiene to benefit women and girls ... Read more »
In April, a group of doctors performed about 70 free vasectomies in Nairobi, a number that seemed like a low turnout, but that figure indicated progress, according to one of the ... Read more »
The KompleteCare app is a collaboration between the Society for Family Physicians of Nigeria and Sevenz Healthcare, and provides online meeting points between doctors and patients ... Read more »
The Super Eagles are due to play against the DRC in Port Harcourt next Monday as part of their final preparations for the World Cup in Russia in June. Sports Minister Solomon ... Read more »
Doctors Without Borders has stepped up the Ebola epidemic response, while neighbouring countries are taking measures to prevent the virus from crossing into their countries - the ... Read more »
Researchers at the Sokoine University of Agriculture have created AfyaData, a digital surveillance app made up of a set of open-source mobile and web digital tools developed by the ... Read more »
By the time the epidemic was brought under control in 2016, more than 11,300 people had died in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone and the costs had risen to U.S.$4.3 billion. ... Read more »
Previous deadly Ebola outbreaks were confined to really remote places DR Congo and thus quickly contained. But this time, there are some cases in a major city. MSF and others are ... Read more »
The vaccine V920 isn't new. It was invented in 2003 at the Public Health Agency of Canada, and initial tests showed promise. Clinical trials didn't happen, until the worst Ebola ... Read more »
According to an annual survey conducted by the South African Society of Clinical and Radiation Oncology, there is not a single radiation oncologist left in Limpopo or Mpumalanga, ... Read more »
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