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Bringing quality reproductive, maternal, newborn and child effectively being care nearer to the community

Bringing quality reproductive, maternal, newborn and child effectively being care nearer to the community

The Ministry of Health and Social Services with support from World Health Organization (WHO) and funding from the Government of Japan concluded a one-year project to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 on reproductive, maternal, newborn…

 Ladies using firewood face increasing neatly being dangers 

 Ladies using firewood face increasing neatly being dangers 

Abuja, 7 April, 2021 - On a sunny afternoon in Dukpa village, a community at Gwagwalada Area Council in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), a 35- year-old housewife Mrs Asia Abdulkarim, was seated on a…

Tuberculosis is no longer a death sentence -survivor’s route to restoration  

Tuberculosis is no longer a death sentence -survivor’s route to restoration  

Akwa, 6 April, 2022 - When 29 years old Mr Ede John Chimobi, a native of Mgbiji in Isuuzor Local Government Area (LGA), Enugu state, tested positive for tuberculosis (TB), he was shocked as he…

Africa faces rising climate-linked health emergencies

Africa faces rising climate-linked health emergencies

Brazzaville – Climate-related health emergencies are on the rise in Africa, accounting for more than half of public health events recorded in the region over the past two decades, a new analysis by World Health…

Bettering response as South Sudan marks two years since the major COVID-19 case

Bettering response as South Sudan marks two years since the major COVID-19 case

Juba, 5 April 2022 – Two years ago on 5 April 2020, South Sudan recorded its first COVID-19 case. The virus was first declared in Juba before spreading to other locations. So far, the country…

Main antibiotic donation strikes African countries closer to defeating yaws

Main antibiotic donation strikes African countries closer to defeating yaws

Major antibiotic donation moves African countries closer to defeating yaws Bangui/Brazzaville/Yaoundé – A major donation of azithromycin, an antibiotic, is being delivered to Cameroon, Central African Republic and the Republic of Congo to contribute to…

As a health care provider there are calls you simply can’t ignore, Dr Emile Rwamasirabo

As a health care provider there are calls you simply can’t ignore, Dr Emile Rwamasirabo

Kigali - When the fourth COVID-19 wave hit the country in early 2022, Rwanda went through a surge in the number of new cases with a spike in the number of deaths. To avoid reliving…

“WHY SHORTER TB REGIMEN IS THE MOST PREFFERED BY PATIENTS IN ESWATINI”

“WHY SHORTER TB REGIMEN IS THE MOST PREFFERED BY PATIENTS IN ESWATINI”

Siphephelosethu Ntjangase is a 21-year-old university student from Hluti village in the Shiselweni region who suffers from pulmonary drug resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB).  In October 2021 before getting checked, he noticed that he was losing weight,…

Liberia marks one yr of COVID-19 vaccination, 1,124,277 individuals salvage full dose

Liberia marks one yr of COVID-19 vaccination, 1,124,277 individuals salvage full dose

One year ago today, Liberia received its first COVID-19 doses from the COVAX Facility and launched vaccinations on 1st April 2021.  To date, 1,124,277 people have been fully vaccinated, and efforts are ongoing to increase…

African mayors decide to promote urban well being and wellbeing

African mayors decide to promote urban well being and wellbeing

Dubai – As the COVID-19 pandemic enters its third year, a group of mayors from the African region have committed to improve city governance for health and wellbeing as well as to promote measures for…

Amidst COVID-19 response, WHO and partners lend a hand Nigeria in direction of achieving a TB free

Amidst COVID-19 response, WHO and partners lend a hand Nigeria in direction of achieving a TB free

Abuja, 31 March, 2022 - When Ms Tina Amos, a 42-year-old mother of five residing at Byazhin, Bwari Local Government Area (LGA), Abuja learnt she had tuberculosis (TB), she thought that was the end of…

Having a peek aid on development as Sierra Leone marks two years since first COVID-19 case

Having a peek aid on development as Sierra Leone marks two years since first COVID-19 case

Freetown, 31 March 2022 – Exactly two years ago today, the first case of COVID-19 was reported in Sierra Leone. This index case detected in Freetown was of a Sierra Leonean national who had travelled…