WORLD HEALTH

It's  world's largest cross-sectional population based survey Shows prevalence drops to 1.4% from 2.8% ABUJA – President Muahammadu Buhari  today at the at the Banquet Hall of Aso Rock, Presidential villa  …

It was the third day of the first-ever vaccination campaign in Africa against typhoid fever. Twenty-seven-year-old Sarah Nyamande was one of many mothers lining up in the unique outreach post – a shopping mall in a Harare…

Pledges  support towards improved health and well-being ALGIERS - The World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Director for Africa, Dr Matshidiso Moeti on Saturday, February 16, ended a three-day official visit to…

The World Bank has announced plans to increase funding to Zambia’s Health Systems Strengthening Project. World Bank Task Team Leader for Zambia Health Service Improvement Project Rosemary Sunkutu said this in a presentation during…

As the World Cancer Day 2019 is commemorated globally, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has stressed the  need for countries to focus on eliminating one of the greatest threats to women's health – Cervical cancer.…

“A future without cancer is within our individual and collective grasp.” That was the message of hope to Africans from the WHO Regional Director, Dr Matshidiso Moeti as the world commemorates the World Cancer Day 2019 today, saying…

Uganda’s disease surveillance system was recently put to a rigorous test when two people, contacts of confirmed Ebola Virus Disease cases in DRC crossed into the country through Kasindi Point of Entry (PoE) on 20th January 2019. The…

Almost five years have passed since he nearly died of Ebola in Liberia, but Richard Sacra has never wavered from his commitment to the struggling West African nation. The 56-year-old family doctor from Massachusetts was among a…

ACCRA, GHANA –  First Lady Mrs Rebecca Akufo-Addo has launched the “Free to Shine “campaign, aimed at eliminating Mother-to - child HIV transmission with a call on every pregnant woman to  test and know her HIV status.…

By the time Kambale Kombi Vianey arrived at the Ebola Treatment Centre (ETC) in Beni in the Democratic Republic of the Congo information late November, he was at death’s door. In the week since falling ill, he’d initially been…