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Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) has persisted in Uganda after the country outlawed the practice a decade ago, stakeholders in the…
The United States announced an over $1 million new funding to Tanzania to strengthen the East Africa country’s preparedness and…
Health minister, Dr Chris Baryomunsi, has dismissed reports that recent student deaths in Uganda are a result of a new…
Uganda Thursday entered the 42-day countdown to the end of its Ebola outbreak after the last confirmed case tested negative…
A third kidney transplant campaign is scheduled for the end of July in Burkina Faso, following two successful operations at…
UNICEF has launched “Generation Zero Polio,” a network of five young French-speaking advocates from West and Central Africa. The group…
Uganda’s health ministry has been urged to improve its malaria case-management particularly in schools, following the plasmodium falciparum strain that…
U.S. Chargé d’Affaires Steve Bremner presided over a handover ceremony to the government of Madagascar, represented by President Col. Michaël…
The Director-General of the National Institute for Cancer Research and Treatment (NICRAT), Prof. Usman Aliyu, says that the Nigerian Government is expanding funding, local drug production and research to improve cancer prevention, diagnosis and treatment while easing patients’ financial burden.
Ethiopia conducted a synchronised polio vaccination campaign with South Sudan using the bivalent Oral Polio vaccine (bOPV) and reached over…