Portable ultrasound devices are making a difference to maternal health care in remote Kenyan villages, enabling pregnancy-related complications to be identified earlier. This critical technology is improving the health of mothers and babies, offering new…
Under the direction of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President, Prime Minister, and Ruler of Dubai, Dubai Humanitarian (DXB-H) has effectively enabled the delivery of urgently needed relief goods to N'djamena,…
Another truck driver has tested positive for COVID-19, bringing to four the number of truck drivers who have tested positive for the viral disease. The latest case is a 27-year-old Kenyan truck driver who entered…
Health Minister Zweli Mkhize says President Cyril Ramaphosa and his national command council (NCC) debate the balance between securing food supply in South Africa and containing the spreading of Covid-19 daily. "What is the best…
At least ten medics have been quarantined after coming into contact with a patient who died showing with Covid-19 symptoms in Bomet. Bomet Medicals Services and Public Health CEC Joseph Sitonik said the patient died…
Chinese doctors arrived in Ethiopia on Thursday to support government efforts in the fight against COVID-19 pandemic. Another group are in Burkina Faso for the same purpose. State-owned China Global Television Network reported their departure…
The debate was between Camille Locht from the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM) and Jean-Paul Mira who heads the Intensive Medicine and Intensive Care Unit of Paris’ Cochin Hospital. Both men…
A major Chinese news outlet, the Xinhua news agency reported on Tuesday that as of Monday, April 14, over 100 Africans in China’s southern city of Guangzhou had tested positive for the novel coronavirus. Xinhua…
Ethiopia’s COVID-19 file as of April 13 has 74 cases (three new case) with three deaths and 10 recoveries. The country is seeking to boost its ventilator reserves according to Health Minister Lia Tadesse. She…
A new case of the Ebola virus has been confirmed in eastern Congo, just three days before the country expected to declare an end to the outbreak, the World Health Organization said Friday. The new…
At least three confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Uganda have tested negative after treatment, health authorities have revealed. Dr Henry G. Mwebesa, the director general of health services at the health ministry, said in a…
The Director General of the World Health Organisation, WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, continues to dominate the international news headlines for issues around the coronavirus pandemic. Aside his daily briefings on the pandemic which continues to…
The Lagos State Government has said it will begin clinical trial for Coronavirus next week in partnership with the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control, NCDC. Commissioner for Health, Akin Abayomi, at a news conference on…
COVID-19 patients on hydroxychloroquine heal faster, a Senegalese doctor has disclosed. Moussa Seydi, Head of the Infectious Diseases Department at Fann Hospital in Dakar made the announcement after 55 people had recovered from the virus.…
The SA Military Health Service is calling up registered health-care practitioners to join forces with serving members in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic. Medical doctors, nurses, clinical associates and operational emergency-care practitioners are wanted.…
A new discovery could lead to better treatments for multiple sclerosis (MS) and other autoimmune diseases, such as psoriasis and rheumatoid arthritis, researchers report. MS occurs when immune cells get into the central nervous system…
South Africans queued outside a clinic in Johannesburg Friday to get tested for the coronavirus. With increasing number of cases in th country, the government is stepping up ability for testing. “I came to the…
Malawi has reported its first three confirmed cases of coronavirus, the nation’s government has confirmed. The southern African nation was among the few African countries yet to report coronavirus cases. Others include Lesotho, Comoros, South…
Kenya’s request to the World Bank for $50m to fund containment efforts of the coronavirus pandemic has been approved according to Health Minister Mutahi Kagwe. Minister Kagwe confirms that the funds will largely go into…
The Provost of Luminar International College of Alternative Medicine, Enugu, Prof. Joseph Akpa, says he has found a cure for coronavirus pandemic. Prof. Akpa, made the claim to newsmen in a press conference held in…
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