Health

KAMPALA - Health Minister Jane Ruth Aceng told reporters that they have increased surveillance along the border with DRC where a confirmed case was reported on Oct 6. The two...

Global health workforce urges action to avert health catastrophe The WHO COP26 Special Report on Climate Change and Health, launched today, in the lead-up to the United Nations Climate Change Conference...

NAIROBI - Kenya on Friday evening received 160,000 doses of AstraZeneca from Slovakia, as well as 700,000 doses of vaccine from France and Germany donated via the COVAX Facility. Henriette...

The Africa CDC, the specialized healthcare agency of the African Union (AU), said the death toll from the pandemic across the continent stands at 213,877. And some 7,733,014 patients across...

The National Biotechnology Authority of Zimbabwe and Chengie Research and Gulf Pharmaceuticals Zimbabwe have developed COFSOL, a cough medicine made from the country's wonder herb, Lippia Javanica, commonly known in...

Even as the continent is seeing a significant decline in new cases and deaths recently, the Africa Centers for Disease Control, or CDC, has called on the world to enable...

The emergency of COVID-19 has not only pushed Africa's traditional medicine into the spotlight, but has offered a silver lining in the continent's efforts to integrate traditional medicine into mainstream...

Working with COVAX, African Vaccine Acquisition Trust and other partners – world can and must meet WHO targets to vaccinate 40% of the population of all countries by the end-2021...

The World Health Organization (WHO) is recommending widespread use of the RTS,S/AS01 (RTS,S) malaria vaccine among children in sub-Saharan Africa and in other regions with moderate to high P. falciparum malaria transmission....

A loss of the sense of smell is a common side-effect of COVID-19, with around eight people in 10 who have a symptomatic infection experiencing some reduction in their ability...