Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic could ease Africa’s cholera outbreak, says WHO’s Moeti.
Rapid response teams have been sent to Tanzania to investigate its first-ever Marburg outbreak, says the WHO.
Funding for neglected tropical diseases often dries up as elimination nears, says Ngozi Erondu, a global health expert.
With proper interventions, spina bifida can be prevented.
Inadequate support for Malawi’s water and sanitation sector is fuelling the continuing cholera outbreak.
Africa must activate public health measures at border controls to contain the spread of Marburg, urge experts.
The WHO has declared monkeypox a public health emergency of international concern barely two years after it declared covid-19 the same.
FGS affects up to 56 million women, but it’s one of Africa’s most neglected reproductive health diseases.
Treatment abandonment is behind Africa’s growing cancer death rates, say health specialists.
African scientists raised the alarm as early as 2010 to warn that monkeypox could become a global health concern.
Urgent action is needed to stop deaths from the ‘deadliest infection’ by 2030, say diseases specialists.
Smartphone screening technology boosts access to eye care by almost three times, study says.
Lack of funding and awareness leave weaker health systems in the lurch, WHO cancer report shows.
Vaccine preventable diseases could cost Africa US$ 22.4 billion and more than 915,000 deaths.
Heart failure and stroke are the leading causes of admissions at a referral hospital in Tanzania.
Even with everyone using indoor control strategies, outdoor mosquito bites could raise malaria cases by 11 million.
The global economy could have saved US$17.8 billion had people not died from drug-resistant TB in 2017.
Africa’s quest to eradicate the continent of hepatitis C infection by 2030 needs urgent attention.
Picture drawing and storytelling boosts knowledge of Ghanaian children and parents on antimicrobial resistance.
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