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| Sep 4, 2026 | East Africa’s digital health shift puts AI and hospital tech on procurement agenda at WHX in Nairobi | East Africa’s healthcare providers increasingly adopting AI-supported diagnostics to improve access and efficiency.
Kenya’s healthcare sector is rapidly adopting digital solutions, and September marks a key moment for the market. ”
— Tom Co... |
| Aug 28, 2026 | Ebola is still killing in central Africa. These groups are working to save lives | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Rachel Spears, KFF Health News
Misinformation and distrust are among the challenges facing public health workers in the Democratic Republic of Congo as they confront the second-deadliest Ebola o... |
| Jul 28, 2026 | Uganda Clears Ebola as Congo’s Fastest-Growing Outbreak Approaches All-Time Mark | By James Whitaker
Published: Jul 28 2026, 4:51 PM EDT
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| Jun 10, 2026 | Africa: AI Regulation in Africa - Why Copying the European Model Won't Work | Mauritius set out its national AI strategy in 2018, the first by an African country. Since then over a dozen African states have adopted national AI policies of some sort or another.
As a national policy plan, an AI strategy typically sets ... |
| Dec 18, 2025 | African States urged to strengthen women’s rights protections amid rising anti-gender pushback | Deborah Nyokabi presenting Equality Now's statement at the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) 85th Ordinary Session
Equality Now warns that women’s rights in Africa are under threat and urges states to act on sexual vio... |
| Nov 9, 2024 | The Erosion of Freedom: Mauritius' Social Media Shutdown and Its Implications | In a surprising twist, Mauritius, often hailed as a democratic beacon in Africa, recently experienced a social media shutdown. This decision, taken by the country's communications regulator, came just days before the general election schedu... |
| Nov 6, 2024 | Mauritius' Social Media Shutdown - a Worrying Sign That Civil Rights Are Slipping | Mauritius' communications regulator recently shut down access to social media platforms until a day after the upcoming general election, due to be held on 10 November 2024. The decision was reversed a day later. Nevertheless, the move came ... |
| Oct 23, 2024 | Africa: Enhancing Polio Detection With Advanced Sequencing Technology | Brazzaville — The African region, declared free of indigenous wild poliovirus in August 2020, faces an urgent threat: the intense transmission of type 2 variant poliovirus (cVDPV2). This year alone, 290 poliovirus detections have been repor... |
| Jul 24, 2024 | Malaica secures pre-seed funding to expand pregnancy care in Kenya |
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), Maternal mortality remains a major health challenge in Sub-Saharan Africa, with the continent accounting for approximately 70% of all global maternal deaths. The maternal mortality ratio (M... |
| Feb 6, 2024 | WARNING over South African cholera outbreak in 2024 | There are renewed warnings over a South African cholera outbreak in 2024. Here’s why. Image: Reuters
A South African cholera outbreak in 2024 is a serious possibility after a spike in cases so far this year. The Minister of Health, Dr. Joe ... |
| Jan 6, 2024 | FAQ: How is cholera transmitted in South Africa? | How is cholera transmitted in South Africa? Picture: File/Fotor.
According to a list of the most searched questions of 2023, ‘How is cholera transmitted in South Africa’ was one of the top search terms, according to the annual Google Trends... |
| Dec 27, 2023 | The GOOD, BAD and TERRIBLE: What happened in SA in 2023? | 2023 written in sand. Image by Pexels/Engin Akyurt
One of the more – perhaps most – exciting South African events in 2023 was the Rugby World Cup victory for the Springboks in France in October.
THE BAD – AND SAD
Thousands of Economic Freed... |
| Dec 16, 2023 | The WHO recognizes noma after years of medical-dental disconnect | Fidel Strub was 3 years old when his face began rotting away. “It’s hell. It’s like you have a burning face,” he told me. “You can’t even open your eyes because it’s just that bad. It’s just burning.”
No one in his village in the West Afric... |
| Nov 13, 2023 | Rwanda: New Robotic-Assisted Surgery Offers Inspiring Hope for Rwanda | Kigali — In a newly established Centre of Excellence located in Masaka, a suburb of the Rwandan capital city, Kigali, an expanded lab, complete with innovative facilities and specialized instruments, is now giving surgeons a conducive envir... |
| Oct 25, 2023 | WHO considers adding ‘noma,’ a rare childhood disease, to its list of neglected conditions | It’s a disease of children living in extreme poverty. Its cause is uncertain. So is the number of children it affects.
But soon, the devastating condition known as noma may be a bit less neglected.
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The World Health Organizatio... |
| Oct 24, 2023 | Insulin is increasingly affordable in the U.S. What about the rest of the world? | In March, Eli Lilly, Novo Nordisk, and Sanofi — the world’s three largest insulin manufacturers — committed to reducing the U.S. list price of insulin, a drug that millions of people require to live.
Following two decades of sharp increases... |
| Jul 12, 2023 | Sickle cell cures are coming. African children can’t be left behind | The treatment of sickle cell disease is on the cusp of a historic breakthrough, with makers of two gene-based treatments for the debilitating blood disorder hoping for regulatory approval this year.
But for those with sickle cell in sub-Sah... |
| Jun 29, 2023 | Lightspeed makes first investment in Africa, backing Ghana’s Berry Health | Sexual and mental health stigmatization in Africa has evolved over several decades to a point where negligence to address the issue has led to the continent topping the charts in sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and mental health case... |
| May 15, 2023 | What It Will Take To Enable Anti-Microbial Resistance Tests For STIs | Bryce Yao is the CEO & CTO of MagIC Lifescience. |
| Apr 6, 2023 | Marburg virus outbreak: CDC issues alert as 2 countries in Africa battle spread of deadly disease | The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned doctors Thursday to be aware of two growing outbreaks of Marburg virus disease in Africa, and will begin reaching out to some arriving travelers to the U.S. to watch for symptoms of the ... |
| Dec 15, 2022 | Kenyan healthtech startup, MyHealth Africa, raises $1 million
TechCabal’s 2021 Year-End report
Success! | Healthcare in Africa still has a long way to go before it can adequately cater to the demands of the continent. There are several reasons for the current state of the healthcare sector, but underinvestment and a lack of available doctors ha... |
| Nov 2, 2022 | Good Food Innovation Fund’s first cohort gets $1m to make better food accessible to Africans | Kenya’s Good Food Innovation Fund (GFIF) recently unveiled the six companies participating in its first cohort.
As the name suggests, “good food” is the focus area for this first cohort. GFIF designates regenerative, nutritious, and sustain... |
| Oct 20, 2022 | Why is there a mental health emergency in Africa? | On Thursday, October 20 at 19:30 GMT:
The World Health Organization has launched a campaign aimed at boosting suicide prevention across Africa, amid a continent-wide crisis in mental health provision.
About 11 people per 100,000 per year di... |
| Oct 13, 2022 | From e-Cigarettes To Hookah Pipes, South Africa Aims To Tighten Tobacco Laws | It’s estimated that tobacco use kills half of it’s consumers. Alexander Joe/AFP via Getty Images |
| Sep 16, 2022 | We Can’t Lose The Fight Against Polio. Here’s How To Beat It Again — For Good | TOPSHOT - An Afghan health worker administers the polio vaccine to a child during a vaccination ... [+] campaign in Kabul on February 28, 2017. - Polio, once a worldwide scourge, is endemic in just three countries now - Afghanistan, Nigeria... |
| Jul 24, 2022 | Poorer nations need assurances of dedicated vaccine supplies before the next pandemic | Anyone wondering whether Covid-19 vaccines are making a difference to this deadly and persistent pandemic can be in no doubt: they are.
Millions of lives around the world have been saved thanks to the rollout of vaccines that were developed... |
| Jul 17, 2022 | Marburg, Monkeypox, And Other Viruses Emerging From Africa | Electron Micrograph Of The Marburg Virus. Marburg Virus, First Recognized In 1967, Causes A Severe ... [+] Type Of Hemorrhagic Fever, Which Affects Humans, As Well As Non Human Primates. (Photo By BSIP/UIG Via Getty Images) Universal Images... |
| Jul 4, 2022 | Southbridge A&I, Salient Advisory and SCIDaR launch I3, a $7 million program for HealthTech in Africa sponsored by the Gates Foundation and operated in Southern Africa by Startupbootcamp Afritech | The pan-African “Investing in Innovation” program will provide 30 HealthTech startups per year, operating in Africa, with access to: 1) a systematic grant of $50,000 2) market and government access events across the continent 3) a connectio... |
| Jun 30, 2022 | Five actions African countries can take to prepare for the next pandemic | Five actions African countries can take to prepare for the next pandemic: Image: Adobe stock
Globally, cases of COVID-19 and related deaths are lower in June 2022 than they were at the beginning of the year. But the infection numbers are ri... |
| May 23, 2022 | Wild Poliovirus is Here, New Cases Recorded in South Africa | April Fowell, Tech Times 23 May 2022, 10:05 pm
The first case of wild poliovirus Type 1 has been reported in South Africa. It is the first imported case of wild poliovirus in the country since 1992, and the second in Southern Africa this ye... |
| Apr 4, 2022 | Norah Magero’s VacciBox is making it easier to vaccinate people in Kenya’s off-grid communities | In March 2021, 1.02 million doses of the AstraZeneca-Oxford COVID-19 vaccine arrived at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, Nairobi, Kenya. However, distribution issues that obstruct vaccine access for many Africans may hamper these vaccin... |
| Feb 16, 2022 | As patent debate swirls, BioNTech CEO promises not to enforce Covid vaccine IP rights in Africa — report | As the World Health Organization warns that Africa would need to ramp up Covid vaccination rates by six-fold to achieve mid-year goals, BioNTech has reportedly promised not to enforce intellectual property rights on the continent — putting ... |
| Dec 27, 2021 | The US is lifting its travel ban against southern African countries, but medical experts say stigmatization has already perpetuated anti-Blackness | Sandile Cele, a researcher at the Africa Health Research Institute in Durban, South Africa, works on the Omicron variant of the COVID-19 virus on Dec. 15, 2021. AP Photo/Jerome Delay
Many medical experts were outraged when the US placed a t... |
| Dec 15, 2021 | Africa records 83% surge in COVID-19 cases in past week | --> -->
Africa is experiencing its fastest surge in COVID-19 cases this year, with the number up 83% in the past week, although deaths remain lower than previous surges, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday.
In the stat... |
| Dec 1, 2021 | The CDC orders airlines to reveal identities of travelers who have recently visited southern Africa | Passengers gather near Delta airline’s counter as they check-in their luggage at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S., May 23, 2021. Reuters/Carlos Barria
The CDC ordered airlines to share the identiti... |
| Nov 25, 2021 | More cancer patients in Africa to benefit from advanced radiation therapy with Elekta Unity MR-Linac | More cancer patients in Africa to benefit from advanced radiation therapy with Elekta Unity MR-Linac Thu, Nov 25, 2021 09:00 CET
Order also includes linear accelerators and brachytherapy equipment for precision radiation therapy at Internat... |
| Nov 8, 2021 | Top Scientist: Why South Africa Shouldn’t Be Giving 12-17 Year Olds COVID Shots – Now | wp_booster error:
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| Nov 8, 2021 | Top scientist: South Africa shouldn’t be giving teens Covid shots | South Africa is one of the leading countries in Africa in terms of Covid vaccine rollout, along with Mauritius, Tunisia and Morocco. It has, however, had its fair share of challenges. Shabir Madhi has been a key player in shaping the countr... |
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| Nov 8, 2021 | Top scientist: South Africa shouldn’t be giving teens Covid shots | |
| Nov 7, 2021 | Top Scientist - Why South Africa Shouldn't Be Giving 12-17 Year Olds Covid Shots - Now | South Africa is one of the leading countries in Africa in terms of COVID vaccine rollout, along with Mauritius, Tunisia and Morocco. It has, however, had it's fair share of challenges.
Shabir Madhi has been a key player in shaping the count... |
| Oct 8, 2021 | Will Moderna’s Factory Announcement Really Address Covid-19 Vaccine Shortages In Africa? | Only 15 of the 54 countries in Africa have fully vaccinated over 10% of their populations. For ... [+] example, even though the official launch of Senegal's Covid-19 vaccination program occurred in February 2021 (pictured here), only about ... |
| Sep 9, 2021 | Youths, Innovation, and a Pandemic | This is one of 38 winning blogs from the 2021 Blog4Dev competition, the World Bank Africa annual writing contest, inviting young people to weigh in on a topic critical to their country's economic development. Blog4Dev winners responded to t... |
| Sep 1, 2021 | Africa has a chance to help the world end polio for good. It needs to seize it now | One year ago, I joined African leaders, experts, and global partners to mark an extraordinary milestone in global health. After a decades-long fight, children across Africa were finally free of polio caused by wild poliovirus, a bright mome... |
| Aug 11, 2021 | As new COVID variants emerge, is herd immunity impossible? | Herd immunity is a term that has been bandied around since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic. It occurs when a large proportion of a population becomes protected against or immune to infection, significantly reducing the spread of t... |
| Jul 3, 2021 | SA’s tax on sugary drinks has brought in R8 billion – less than 1% is spent on health ‘promotion’ | (Getty Images)
The Health Promotion Levy has collected R7.9 billion since being implemented in 2018.
The tax aims to reduce obesity and diabetes in South Africa.
But all the money collected by the South African Revenue Service goes straight... |
| Jul 1, 2021 | WHO World Health Organization : Opening statement, COVID-19 Press Conference, 1 July 2021 | Submitted by [email protected] Thu, 01/07/2021 - 11:49
Remarks by WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr Matshidiso Moeti
Good morning and good afternoon to everyone, bonjour, bom dia. Welcome to this press conference on the COVID-19 resurge... |
| Jun 28, 2021 | WHO World Health Organization : The Strategic Imperative of Boosting Local Pharmaceutical Production in Africa | Submitted by [email protected] Mon, 28/06/2021 - 10:58
African Development Bank Group 2021 Annual Meetings: 25 June 2021, Remarks by WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr Matshidiso Moeti
First, I'd like to thank sincerely President Adesina... |
| Jun 14, 2021 | #WorldBloodDonorDay: 5 startups improving access to safe blood in Africa | Share this article:
You don’t need to be a medical expert to know the value of blood to humans. At a basic level, most people understand that the absence of blood in a human is fatal, yet blood donation rates in most African countries are l... |
| Jun 3, 2021 | Nigeria’s Siltech produces electric vehicles, for a clean and elegant Africa | Share this article:
Africa’s automotive sector has had its share of challenges over the years. Despite the well documented harmful effects of carbon emissions on our environment, petrol engines in cars, bikes, and heavy-duty vehicles rule m... |
| May 31, 2021 | Health Canada agrees to extend shelf-life of AstraZeneca as variant from India ups COVID threat | Will Health Canada’s decision to grant an extension to the best-before date on thousands of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine doses further spook public confidence in the troubled shots, or is there nothing really magical about drug expiry dates... |
| May 28, 2021 | IFC, Proparco, DEG and DFC to Support COVID-19 Vaccine and Pharma Manufacturing in Africa | Johannesburg, South Africa, May 28, 2021-To strengthen Africa's vaccine and pharmaceutical development and to accelerate the continent's recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), Proparco, the Germ... |
| Apr 26, 2021 | Continuing the fight: WHO donors and partners support COVID-19 response around the world | COVID-19 vaccination campaigns have officially been rolled out in over 100 countries and are providing hope. But the pandemic continues and much essential work remains to be done. This week, we highlight a recent selection of WHO's activiti... |
| Apr 22, 2021 | Continuing the fight: WHO donors and partners support COVID-19 response around the world | COVID-19 vaccination campaigns have officially been rolled out in over 100 countries and are providing hope. But the pandemic continues and much essential work remains to be done. This week, we highlight a recent selection of WHO's activiti... |
| Feb 20, 2021 | Zzapp Malaria is using AI to identify malaria bearing mosquito hotspots In Africa | Sometime last year, my Editor-in-Chief, Goke, was hospitalised for days alongside his son after they broke down with what he described to me as “a strange type of malaria.”
One day, he is up and about, doing his regular work and the next, h... |
| Feb 15, 2021 | Not One, But Two Outbreaks Of Ebola Threaten To Erupt In Sub-Saharan Africa | Colorized transmission electron micrograph (TEM) showing the structure of an Ebola virus particle.Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |
| Nov 24, 2020 | Welcome to the resumed 70th session of the WHO Regional Committee for Africa | Submitted by [email protected] Tue, 24/11/2020 - 13:09
Remarks by WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr Matshidiso Moeti
Honourable Minister of Health of the Population, and of Women's Promotion and Integration of the Republic of Congo, and... |
| Oct 9, 2020 | Hepatitis is still a silent killer in Africa and elsewhere | The Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine was awarded this week to three researchers who discovered the virus that causes hepatitis C.
According to the announcement, “For the first time in history, the disease can now be cured, raising hope... |
| Aug 25, 2020 | Africa Declared Free Of Wild Polio Virus | Dr. Tunji Funsho participates in polio immunizations in Lagos Nigeria in 2017.© Rotary International |
| Aug 10, 2020 | New Ebola Outbreak In Congo Creates Unparalleled Challenges During A Pandemic | GOMA, NORTH KIVU, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO - Medical staff dressed in protective gear before ... [+] entering an isolation area at an Ebola treatment centre in Goma. (Photo by Sally Hayden/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)LightR... |
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| May 11, 2020 | AIDS, TB And Malaria Set To Get Deadlier Due To Coronavirus | AIDS, TB and Malaria are major killer infections in many low & middle income countries. The ... [+] coronavirus pandemic is expected to increase mortality due to all infections in the coming months and years.Getty |
| Apr 28, 2020 | Goldman-backed ventures Jumia and Twiga partner on produce in Kenya | Pan-African e-commerce company Jumia and B2B agtech startup Twiga Foods are partnering to deliver produce in Kenya using adaptive measures during COVID-19.
Jumia offers online goods and services verticals in 11 countries and became the firs... |
| Apr 23, 2020 | 6 amazing African innovations against COVID-19: A cure from physics? | Share this article:
A cursory glance at history will reveal that the rise of tough, critical situations usually forces innovation, hence the phrase ‘Necessity is the mother of invention’. As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to ravage the wor... |
| Apr 22, 2020 | In Nigeria, PalmPay waives fees and creates ₦100M COVID-19 payout fund | Africa-focused payment startup PalmPay will waive transfer fees in Nigeria and offer direct payouts to customers who have contracted COVID-19 in the West African country.
The venture — that launched in 2019 backed by China’s Transsion — has... |
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| Apr 14, 2020 | African genomics startup 54gene raises $15M led by Adjuvant Capital | Greater availability of African genomic data could lead to medical breakthroughs for the continent’s 1.2 billion people.
That’s the driving proposition of 54gene — a U.S. and Nigeria-based startup — that collects African genetic code for us... |
| Apr 6, 2020 | WHO Africa hosts hackathons, offers seed funds to fight COVID-19 | The World Health Organization in Africa is holding virtual hackathons and offering up to $20,000 in seed-funds to finalists with digital solutions to stem COVID-19.
The regional office of the UN agency completed its first challenge earlier ... |
| Mar 31, 2020 | Africa Roundup: Africa’s tech ecosystem responds to COVID-19 | In March, the virus gripping the world — COVID-19 — started to spread in Africa. In short order, actors across the continent’s tech ecosystem began to step up to stem the spread.
Early in March, Africa’s COVID-19 cases by country were in th... |
| Mar 26, 2020 | Zindi taps 12,000 African data scientists for solutions to COVID-19 | Since its inception, Cape Town based crowdsolving startup Zindi has been building a database of data scientists across Africa.
It now has 12,000 registered on its its platform that uses AI and machine learning to tackle complex problems and... |
| Mar 25, 2020 | Africa turns to mobile payments as a tool to curb COVID-19 | Africa is using digital finance as a means to stem the spread of COVID-19.
Governments and startups on the continent are implementing measures to shift a greater volume of payment transactions toward mobile money and away from cash — which ... |
| Mar 22, 2020 | Jumia adapts Pan-African e-commerce network in response to COVID-19 | Pan-African e-commerce company Jumia is adapting its digital retail network to curb the spread of COVID-19.
The Nigeria headquartered operation — with online goods and services verticals in 11 African countries — announced a series of measu... |
| Mar 17, 2020 | CcHub funds tech to curb COVID-19 on concerns of an Africa outbreak | Africa’s largest innovation incubator, CcHub, will offer funding and engineering support to tech projects aimed at curbing COVID-19 and its social and economic impact.
The Lagos and Nairobi based organization posted an open application on i... |
| Feb 10, 2020 | Rwanda Launches New High Tech Treatment Cancer Centre | Rwanda has launched a new high-tech cancer treatment centre at the Military Hospital located in Kanombe. The Rwandan president, Paul Kagame inaugurated the centre. It will help to combat the rate of cancer disease in the country.
Cancer is ... |
| Oct 21, 2019 | Kenyan-based Aga Khan Uses 3D Technology to Treat Heart Disease | Aga Khan, a hospital-based in Mombasa has used a three dimensional (3D) technology to treat heart disease patients. The surgeries were conducted earlier in the week.
Cardiovascular disease also called heart disease is a major contributor to... |
| Jul 25, 2019 | The real public health emergency of international concern: the DRC | The decision to declare the yearlong Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo as a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) will almost certainly help focus the world’s attention on this deepening crisis. But w... |
| Mar 20, 2019 | African cities are running out of water, and the continent needs almost R1 trillion to avoid a crisis of disease and dehydration | African cities are running out of water.
Eric Bouvet/Gamma-Rapho/Getty Images
African cities are experiencing devastating water shortages as their populations continue to grow.
These water shortages have led to sanitation problems, which ca... |
| Mar 11, 2019 | Meet the top 30 finalists of the WHO Africa Innovation Challenge | The World Health Organisation Regional Office for Africa (WHO AFRO) has announced the top 30 finalists of the inaugural WHO Africa Innovation Challenge.
In a statement last Thursday (7 March) WHO AFRO said the finalists were selected from 2... |
| Mar 11, 2019 | Meet the top 30 finalists of the WHO Africa Innovation Challenge | The World Health Organisation Regional Office for Africa (WHO AFRO) has announced the top 30 finalists of the inaugural WHO Africa Innovation Challenge.
In a statement last Thursday (7 March) WHO AFRO said the finalists were selected from ... |
| Nov 26, 2018 | Here’s all you need to know about the WHO Africa Innovation Challenge | Are you working on new solution that could help address some of Africa’s unmet health needs? Then you’re just the sort of innovator that the World Health Organisation (WHO) is looking for.
WHO is calling on innovators with scalable healthca... |
| Nov 26, 2018 | Here’s all you need to know about the WHO Africa Innovation Challenge | Are you working on new solution that could help address some of Africa’s unmet health needs? Then you’re just the sort of innovator that the World Health Organisation (WHO) is looking for.
WHO is calling on innovators with scalable healthc... |
| Nov 21, 2018 | We would like to learn about your healthtech startup | Healthcare in Nigeria is plagued with several challenges. There’s a low doctor to patient ratio, 1:5100, and a lack of hospital beds, 5 beds per 10,000 people. The challenges are well documented with far-reaching consequences. Maternal mort... |
| May 26, 2017 | Lessons learned from the final Ebola outbreak in Guinea | In mid-March of 2016, I was a new field epidemiologist working in the West African country of Guinea. The Ebola epidemic seemed to be over: We were just 11 days away from being Ebola-free for 90 days, which would mark the official end of th... |
| Jan 30, 2017 | Neglected tropical diseases are finally getting the attention they deserve | When you work in global health, you get to witness some of humankind’s greatest achievements. Together, the world has cut child deaths by more than half since 1990, we’re on the brink of eradicating polio, and we’re reaching more people tha... |
| Health Canada agrees to extend shelf-life of AstraZeneca as variant from India ups COVID threat | Will Health Canada’s decision to grant an extension to the best-before date on thousands of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine doses further spook public confidence in the troubled shots, or is there nothing really magical about drug expiry dates... |
| In a Nigerian leprosy colony, residents endure stigma and neglect | Ilorin, Nigeria – Abigail Olaiya’s meal schedule has been unpredictable for as long as she can remember. Sometimes she snacks twice a day and at other times, she eats nothing all day because she cannot afford it.
It is a situation the 70-ye... |
| Kenyan-based Aga Khan Uses 3D Technology to Treat Heart Disease | Aga Khan, a hospital-based in Mombasa has used a three dimensional (3D) technology to treat heart disease patients. The surgeries were conducted earlier in the week.
Cardiovascular disease also called heart disease is a major contributor to... |
| Why is polio making a comeback? | On Tuesday, August 30 at 19:30 GMT:
Around the world, new outbreaks of poliovirus are threatening to set back decades of progress made in nearly eradicating the disease.
The latest cases are worrying for public health officials who say the ... |
| The world has failed at vaccine equity. Will 2022 be different? | On December 4, 2020, a 90-year-old grandmother in the United Kingdom became the first person in the world to receive a vaccine proven to be highly effective against COVID-19, kicking off a rollout of inoculants developed with unprecedented ... |
| Pfizer jab protects against hospitalisation with Omicron: Study | Two doses of Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine appear to provide 70 percent protection against hospitalisation from the Omicron coronavirus variant, according to an extensive real-world study in South Africa.
The analysis released on Tuesd... |
| Rwanda Launches New High Tech Treatment Cancer Centre | Rwanda has launched a new high-tech cancer treatment centre at the Military Hospital located in Kanombe. The Rwandan president, Paul Kagame inaugurated the centre. It will help to combat the rate of cancer disease in the country.
Cancer is ... |
| Things to know about the dreaded Marburg virus disease | Health authorities in Ghana have officially confirmed two cases of the highly infectious Marburg virus in the country, after two people who later died, tested positive for the virus on July 10.
A total of 98 people identified as contact cas... |
