The Department of Health amended the list of notifiable diseases to now include listeriosis following the deaths of 61 people. Notifiable diseases are required by law to be ... Read more »
Health Minister Chitalu Chilufya has announced at a press briefing in Lusaka that vaccination would first be administered in cholera epicentres, Chipata and Kanyama townships. Read more »
In the south of the island, where many people farm for a living, the rainy season is getting shorter and shorter, they say. Rains that once stretched from October to March now fall ... Read more »
African hospitals suffer a higher post-operative death rate than the global average despite patients being younger with a lower risk profile and experiencing lower occurrences of ... Read more »
Global charities often think they know how to achieve results in Africa. Increasingly, however, local, national and Africa-wide initiatives - such as Wellbeing Africa Foundation, ... Read more »
President Edgar Lungu has dispatched the military to contain an outbreak of cholera which has killed 41 people in Lusaka and affected more than 1,500 others since September 2017. Read more »
The Blood Transfusion Service of Namibia has said that the current stock of blood for emergency blood transfusions is only enough to last for one week. This comes after the South ... Read more »
Health Cabinet Secretary, Cleopa Mailu, has warned that anyone found contravening the control of shisha smoking rules will be "liable to a fine not exceeding U.S.$484, or to ... Read more »
Tandahimba District Commissioner Sebastian Waryuba has ordered police to arrest 55 secondary school girls who became pregnant in the past two years. Speaking during a district ... Read more »
The Regional Immunisation Technical Advisory Group, which serves as the principal advisory group to the WHO, says that the region is off track to achieve the Global Vaccine Action ... Read more »
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