In a bid to address the disease, which is thought to have spread from South Sudan, Uganda's health ministry has set up treatment centres, launched a toll free phone number and ... Read more »
Amidst persistent bombardment by the Sudan Armed Forces, the number of households in South Kordofan surviving on one meal per day has jumped to a staggering 81.5 percent, compared ... Read more »
A wildcat strike has left patients at the Nelson Mandela Academic Hospital and surrounding clinics and hospitals in the Eastern Cape without life-saving medicines and treatment. Read more »
The floods that has ravaged most states, has not yet impacted on the country's crude oil production, says Petroleum Minister Diezani Alison-Madueke. Read more »
The rising number of new infections now estimated at 130,000 per year has pushed Uganda's HIV prevalence rate up from 6.4 percent in 2005 to 7.3 percent last year. A country that ... Read more »
More than a third of child deaths in Kenya are due to undernutrition. What's more, Kenya annually loses U.S.$2.8 billion of its GDP to vitamin and mineral deficiencies. AllAfrica ... Read more »
The sprawling slum of Mukuru on the eastern edge of Kenya's capital is a world apart from the glassy skyscrapers towering over traffic-clogged city streets. Its estimated 700,000 ... Read more »
The Republic of Congo has introduced a free pneumonia vaccine and is the 15th Sub-Saharan African country to introduce the pneumococcal vaccine into its immunization programme. Read more »
Mental health is a global challenge that could significantly impact on the health, social and even economic growth of developing countries, an advocate notes. Read more »
A new report by World Vision and Save the Children has revealed that despite new strategies to tackle undernutrition, health spending falls far below the 15 percent commitment ... Read more »
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