28-Jan-2019 to 09:17
South Sudan: DFCA bans skin lightening creams
APA (Juba) South Sudan — South Sudan authorities have officially banned dangerous skin lightening and bleaching creams because of health concerns.
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26-Jan-2019 to 14:44
Mozambique: National polio vaccination targets 700K
APA-Maputo (Mozambique) — More than 700,000 children will be vaccinated against poliomyelitis in the provinces of Zambézia, Nampula, Niassa, central and northern regions of Mozambique during a two-week vaccination campaign that kicks off Saturday countrywide.
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25-Jan-2019 to 23:49
Ebola virus found in bats - Liberian health institute
APA-Monrovia (Liberia) — The Director General of the National Public Health Institute of Liberia (NPHIL) Tolbert Nyenswah has disclosed that discovery from research conducted by the NPHIL and the Ministryof Health (MOH) to establish whether bats carry Ebola, has proved positive.
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24-Jan-2019 to 01:18
Uganda receives $1.6 billion medical consignment from India
APA-Kampala (Uganda) — Uganda’s ministry of health has this morning received essential medicines and medical supplies worth $1.6m from the government of India.
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23-Jan-2019 to 08:57
Kenya, Mozambique in joint health project for the elderly
APA-Nairobi (Kenya) — Kenya and Mozambique on Wednesday jointly with HelpAge International launched a three-year project in Nairobi that will seek to make health systems in Africa more responsive to the health and care needs of older persons.
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22-Jan-2019 to 15:57
eSwatini teen delivers heaviest baby at 6kg
APA-Mbabane (eSwatini) — A teenage mother delivered a baby weighing 6kg, which health practitioners frowned upon but otherwise recorded as historic.
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