With the theme ‘collaboration for a better health outcome’, South Sudan has marked its International One Health Day to create awareness and enhance better understanding of human, animal and environmental health in strengthening…
The President of the World Medical Association (WMA), Dr Osahon Enabulele, has called for support and empowerment of junior doctors in the medical profession.
Enabulele stated this while delivering an address at the 1st International…
BERLIN, Germany - The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) yesterday at the World Health Summit, announced it will commit $1.2 billion to support efforts to end all forms of polio globally. The announcement was made ahead of a key…
A three-week lockdown has been declared in two districts of Uganda as the country battles an Ebola outbreak.
Bars, nightclubs, places of worship and entertainment venues will be closed in Mubende and neighbouring Kassanda, and a curfew…
An age-old social belief that “what goes on under the cloth should remain under the cloth” is killing women in Sierra Leone.
“People are dying in silence,” says Dr Desmond Maada Kangbai, the head of the country’s immunization services.…
India on Wednesday ordered the closure of company behind killer cough syrups in Gambia
The government ordered Maiden Pharmaceutical Limited to stop manufacturing all drugs with immediate effect after the consumption of some drugs it…
Addis Ababa/Brazzaville/Kampala – Ministers of Health and government representatives from 9 African countries today agreed on joint measures to stop the potential spread of the ongoing Ebola disease outbreak in Uganda and beyond…
Uganda health officials have declared another outbreak of Ebola Virus disease following the confirmation of a case of the Sudan ebolavirus confirmed in Mubende district in the central part of the country.
The case was confirmed after…
Healthy life expectancy in the African region has increased on average by 10 years per person between 2000 and 2019, a World Health Organization (WHO) assessment report has shown. This rise is greater than in any other region of the…