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President Dr Julius Maada Bio has outlined remarkable improvements in affordable and quality healthcare in his state opening of parliament…
The success of a fourth kidney transplant by a military hospital offers renewed hope to patients suffering from kidney failure in Senegal.
With the introduction of advanced technologies such as “Toumai,” Morocco is ushering in the era of a centre of excellence…
In Bomet County, Kenya, Kenya Red Cross is supporting influential community figures to use traditional customs to tackle modern-day disease threats.
Jane Mulewa Mwale, 89, is a proud mother of 10 and a grandmother to many. For the last 42 years, her life has been marred with shame and isolation, as a result of living with obstetric fistula, a hole between the birth canal and bladder and/or rectum. “I delivered all my babies at home, and following the birth of my tenth child, I realized that I could not hold my stool or urine. That is when my life took a turn for the worst,” says Jane.
A father of three can sleep comfortably on his back for the first time in 15 years after having a massive tumor – weighing 11lbs (5kgs) – removed by surgical charity Mercy Ships.
The Senegalese candidate for the post of Director of the WHO Africa Office is in competition with a Nigerien, a…
Over 268,000 children in Uganda suffer from malnutrition, specifically wasting and to combat this, the country is enhancing data collection…
In a significant and pivotal event, President Joseph Nyuma Boakai on Sunday officially launched the Global Fund Grant Cycle 7…
For decades, conflict in the mineral-rich eastern DRC has triggered alarming levels of violence, mass displacement, widespread disease, gender-based violence…