Epilepsy is the most common serious chronic brain disorder in the world. More than 50 million people are affected by the condition. A fifth live in Africa. About 3% of Malawi's of ... Read more »
Hospitals and clinics in the North West of South Africa may run out of medicine in just days as a go-slow at the province's central medicine depot enters its second month, ... Read more »
The White Ribbon Alliance has launched the "What Women Want" campaign in Nigeria. At the launch in Abuja, the alliance's national co-ordinator, Tonte Ibraye, said: "The campaign ... Read more »
The National Population Commission has put Nigeria's population at 198 million people with urban population growing at an average annual rate of about 6.5 percent. Nigeria is now ... Read more »
Nigeria is battling an unprecedented outbreak of Lassa fever that has already killed 142 people this year. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has confirmed 400 Lassa cases ... Read more »
According to the World Health Organisation cervical cancer is the fourth most common cancer in women. The high mortality rate from cervical cancer globally could be reduced through ... Read more »
The World Health Organisation has announced that by 2026, approximately one billion people in 27 high-risk African countries will be vaccinated against yellow fever. Read more »
A new study in the Democratic Republic of Congo found that treating women subsistence farmers with just a single dose of a cheap deworming medication, significantly improved their ... Read more »
Using a new bug spray on bed nets - blocking mosquitoes resistant to current insecticides - almost halved malaria infections among children in Tanzania in a study that has boosted ... Read more »
Nigeria currently has the highest numbers of unimmunized children globally at over 3 million. In the past year alone, Nigeria has suffered outbreaks and tragic deaths from ... Read more »
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