South African President Cyril Ramaphosa announced a ban on the sale of alcohol and said face masks will be compulsory in public after the country became the first African nation to record one million cases.
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Dr Akinwumi Adesina, the President of African Development Bank (AfDB), has been named winner of Academy of Public Health’s 2020 Distinguished Fellowship Award. The fellows are…
Non-communicable diseases account for seven of the world’s top 10 causes of death, a speedy increase from two decades ago, a new UN World Health Organization…
December 1st is World AIDS Day, it reminds the public and government that HIV has not gone away. It reminds us of the vital need to…
Catch up with Newscentral’s Sulaiman Aledeh on the major stories from Africa today.
The World Health Organisation in a new report says no fewer than one in 7 Libyans needs mental and psychological health care. Citing the ongoing political…
More than 409,000 people globally; most of them children in the impoverished parts of Africa were killed by malaria last year, the WHO said in its latest global malaria report, and COVID-19 will almost certainly make that toll higher in 2020.
The World Health Organisation (WHO), Regional Office for Africa in Brazzaville, Congo, says there are over two million confirmed COVID-19 cases on the African continent. The…
The World Health Organisation (WHO), Regional Office for Africa in Brazzaville, Congo, says there are over 1.9 million confirmed COVID-19 cases on the African continent. The…
At least 44,471 people have died from the virus across the continent, while nearly 1.5 million more have recovered, according to the data from the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention