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Ethiopia’s healthcare system has been stretched to its limits, especially with the high number of refugees and displaced people, says Doctors Without Borders (MSF).
Teenagers and young adults in Malawi are using drones to map high-garbage areas across four major markets in Lilongwe, the…
Russia is expanding its influence in Africa in the pharmaceutical sector, as Morocco imported $17.22 million worth of pharmaceutical products in 2022, according to data from Trading Economics.
African countries reported 2,532 new mpox cases last week, mostly in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Burundi,…
The World Health Organisation (WHO) unveiled Nigeria’s first-ever Climate Health Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessment Report (VA) during the Health Sector-Wide Joint Annual Review (JAR 2024) on Friday in Abuja.
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) remains the African country most affected by the Mpox epidemic, which continues to spread…
Since the early 1990s, Somalia has suffered multiple outbreaks of cholera which, due to poor sanitary conditions, have affected a majority of the population living in internally displaced camps.
The war in Sudan has devastated towns and cities across the country and pushed the healthcare system to collapse, just as cases of cholera and dengue fever are surging and hunger levels remain “above the famine threshold”, humanitarians have warned.
Mauritius became the latest African country to report mpox cases, bringing the total number of affected countries to 19, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has disclosed.
For the first time, the East African Community (EAC) is operationalising its Rapidly Deployable Expert (RDE) Pool in response to an international public health emergency due to the spreading mpox virus disease outbreak.