The international community marked World Cancer Day on Sunday, February 4 with the theme, “Together, we challenge those in power”. It is a day set aside…
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Parents alongside their children in the western city of Kisumu, Kenya are anxiously awaiting the arrival of the R21 vaccine. They are used to the RTS,…
The World Health Organization (WHO) has labeled Malawi’s current cholera outbreak as the biggest in Africa. The country has reported almost 40% of the total number…
Ebola has claimed the life of another health worker as the Uganda struggles to contain the spread of the virus. Mubende Resident District Commissioner (RDC) Rosemary…
Uganda said its Ebola caseload had jumped to 16 people while a further 18 people also likely had the disease, fueling fears of a spreading outbreak…
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…
South Africa’s new Covid-19 cases shot up by more than 50 percent Thursday from the previous day amid a surge of infections driven by two new…
The Ministry of Health (MoH) in Kenya is on high alert after Malawi recorded Africa’s first wild polio case earlier this year, coming two years after…
An unknown disease has killed about 89 people in the northern town of Fangak, Jonglei state of South Sudan A World Health Organization – W.H.O – task force…
The European Commission has suspended funding to the World Health Organization’s programmes in the Democratic Republic of Congo due to concerns over the U.N. agency’s handling of the sexual…