Mangochi Hospital in Malawi is currently attending to 700 diabetic patients, and the District Health Officer believes there are more such patients in the remote villages who don't ... Read more »
Minister for Health, Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children Ummy Mwalimu has announced that Tanzania will provide cervical cancer vaccination starting in April 2018, ... Read more »
Social marketing is used worldwide to tackle public health problems - but in Uganda this has not been widely embraced. Now DKT, a United States family planning company, has entered ... Read more »
At least half of the world's population cannot obtain essential health services, according to a new report from the World Bank and the World Health Organization. And each year, ... Read more »
Non-communicable diseases still kill and threaten many people in Africa but Francois Ndikumwenayo, a lecturer at the University of Burundi and President of Burundi NCD Alliance, ... Read more »
As the Universal Health Coverage (UHC) Forum convenes this week, coinciding with Universal Health Coverage Day, sub-Saharan Africa finds itself in the midst of a healthcare crisis. ... Read more »
The project aims to improve the lives of residents by constructing modern sanitation facilities, health centres, schools and many other projects, as well as enabling the residents ... Read more »
Blood testing services at the National Blood Transfusion Service may soon become automated, in an effort to address human errors and to improve efficiency. Read more »
According to the UN Population Fund, 28,932 girls aged between 10 and 14 years were raped, and 349,465 girls between 15 to 19 years were pregnant. Counties with the highest number ... Read more »
The City of Johannesburg has initiated an action plan to combat an outbreak of the food-borne Listeriosis bacterial disease. This comes after 345 cases were reported in Gauteng, ... Read more »
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