The World Health Organisation on Thursday launched a $1.5bn drive to tackle bacterial meningitis in Africa. The global health organisation added that it may also be…
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A total of 19,055,059 COVID-19 vaccine doses had been administered in the country as of August 30, 2022.So far, 8.3 million people have been fully vaccinated…
A fatal Measles outbreak in Zimbabwe has claimed nearly 700 lives as the nation struggles to contain the infectious viral disease. The government of the Southern…
New data from the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/ Aids (UNAids) on the global HIV response has revealed that Malawi is on track to eradicate…
On the occasion of the 2022 World Breastfeeding Week, UNICEF and WHO have expressed the importance of breastfeeding and called on governments to allocate increased resources…
Poor sanitation accounts for 52 percent of the total disease burden in Malawi, with diarrhoea alone accounting for seven per cent of under-five deaths, latest statistics…
Today is World Hepatitis Day. It is observed each year on 28 July to raise awareness of viral hepatitis, which causes inflammation of the liver that…
The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has confirmed the Marburg Virus Disease (MVD) following the testing of two cases recorded in the country at the Institute of…
The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared Ghana’s first outbreak of the Ebola-like Marburg virus disease after labs confirmed the infections in two cases announced earlier…
Uganda recently joined other countries in Africa to pilot the Tripartite Joint Risk Assessment (JRA) tool for zoonotic threats. A zoonotic disease is a disease or…