The head of the African Union’s health agency urged Western nations on Thursday to apply the lessons learned from the Covid-19 pandemic and not abandon Africa…
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The World Health Organisation (WHO) has issued an urgent plea for global action to tackle the escalating threat of antibiotic resistance, emphasising the critical need to…
The World Health Organization (WHO) has donated drugs and medical consumables valued at N70 million to the Jigawa State Government. The donation, made on Monday, is…
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…
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…