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WHO helps to save lots of lives of moms and youngsters in Kigoma

WHO helps to save lots of lives of moms and youngsters in Kigoma

Kigoma - Maternal death is a significant problem in Tanzania. According to the Tanzania Demographic and Health Survey 2016, by average 556 women die from childbirth, a slight decrease over ten years from 578 in…

Managing Routine Immunization throughout a Pandemic

Managing Routine Immunization throughout a Pandemic

INDHOEK - As the focus shifted towards managing the global Covid-19 pandemic, essential health services such as routine immunization suffered a blow with many children subsequently missing out on their routine immunization.  “The issue of…

AFRO 2

AFRO 2

RUNDU - About ten kilometres on the eastern outskirts of Rundu is the Mayana village, an area characterized by flood plains. In fact, Mayana means flood plains in the local dialect and is named after…

WHO bolsters Ebola illness outbreak response in Uganda

WHO bolsters Ebola illness outbreak response in Uganda

Brazzaville – In an accelerated effort to scale up response to the Ebola disease outbreak in Uganda, World Health Organization (WHO) is delivering medical supplies, providing logistics and deploying staff to support the national authorities…

Selling high quality reporting on well being

Selling high quality reporting on well being

14 September 2022, Monrovia:  The surge of pandemics such as COVID-19 has underscored the importance of ensuring evidence-based reporting by the media. Throughout the pandemic, the media fraternity has and continues to play an integral…

WHO validates Malawi for eliminating trachoma, first nation in southern Africa

Brazzaville/Lilongwe – World Health Organization (WHO) has validated Malawi as having eliminated trachoma—a bacterial eye infection that can cause irreversible blindness if untreated—as a public health problem. Malawi becomes the first country in southern Africa and…

WHO area officer killed in South Sudan

Juba, 21 September 2022 – World Health Organization (WHO) expresses its profound shock and sadness at the killing of its polio field surveillance officer in Bentiu city in South Sudan and condemns the violent death.…

Uganda declares Ebola Virus Illness outbreak 

Uganda declares Ebola Virus Illness outbreak 

Brazzaville/Kampala – The health authorities in Uganda today declared an outbreak of Ebola after a case of the Sudan ebolavirus was confirmed in Mubende district in the central part of the country.  The Uganda Virus…

Medicines can heal, however they’ll additionally hurt

Medicines can heal, however they’ll additionally hurt

Abuja, 19 September, 2022 - In December 2017, Oluwatayo Akingbile, then 20 years old, understood the harsh implication of using medications without a prescription after losing a friend who thought he had malaria and had…

Boosting medical oxygen provides within the Democratic Republic of Congo

Boosting medical oxygen provides within the Democratic Republic of Congo

Kinshasa – In her small office at University Clinics of Kinshasa, nurse Agnès Bisilwala has her eyes trained on a row of large gas cylinders. “In the past, three or four days could go by…

South Sudan launched Pharmacy Coverage and Technique

South Sudan launched Pharmacy Coverage and Technique

South Sudan launched the Pharmaceutical Policy and Strategy. The 2022 Pharmaceutical Policy and Strategy provides an overall framework for governance, regulation and programming within the health sector which has been lacking since 2006. The Pharmaceutical…

Collectively, we are able to forestall drowning

Collectively, we are able to forestall drowning

Dar es Salaam: Last year, the United Nations passed a resolution on Global Drowning Prevention and the problem is now gaining importance among different sectors in Tanzania and East Africa countries that share the Lake…