The Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Rt.Hon. Anita Among, and a team from the World Health Organization (WHO), led by the WHO Representative, Dr Yonas Tegegn Woldemariam, committed to working together to address to promote mental health in the country. This was at a meeting held at the Ugandan Parliament in Kampala. The meeting, which was […]
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Tunis/Tunisia — 27,360 COVID-19 vaccine shots (9,852 first shots, 7,237 boosters, 10,181 third doses and 90 travel shots) were administered on November 12, the Health Ministry said on Friday evening. As such, a total of 9,791,690 jabs were administered till November 12, including 5,802,387 first shots, 3,732,745 boosters, 243,348 third doses and 13,210 travel shots, […]
Nairobi — Although for different reasons, diabetes appears to be one of the few cases that put rich and poor societies at equal footing. In either case, diabetes is caused by wrong, dangerous to health nutritional habits. In fact, people in industrialised countries tend to consume the so-called “junk food”, while in poor nations diabetes […]
Despite facing a triple threat with little government support, female farmers have proven surprisingly resilient. On 15 October, Alcinda Zimba, 50, gathered with fellow female farmers in the southern Mozambican village of Marracuene. The smallholders, all members of the country’s largest farmers’ union, União Nacional de Camponeses (UNAC), had come together to celebrate International Day […]
Tanzania continues to experience substantial challenges from the COVID-19 pandemic and faces an ongoing urgent balance of payments need as the authorities implement a comprehensive emergency response plan, including a vaccination campaign. The IMF approved US$372.4 million in emergency financial assistance under the Rapid Credit Facility (RCF) in an amount equivalent to the recently early […]
As part of efforts to reduce the carbon footprint in Lagos, the Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has stated that the state government has begun the building of low carbon healthcare infrastructure facilities in the state. He stated that the administration would build healthcare infrastructure that are 50 per cent less carbon and 50 […]
Medical Director of Tranquil and Quest Behavioral Health, Lagos, Gbonjubola Abiri has called on Federal and State Governments to increase budgetary allocation to mental health emergencies in order to address this growing challenge.Abiri, who among other professionals spoke at the 2021 virtual mental wellness symposium organised by Corona Schools’ Trust Council recently, observed that many […]
Tunis/Tunisia — A one more COVID-19 death and 93 infections were logged on November 10 from 2,809 tests (3.31% positivity rate), the Health Ministry said. As such, the caseload hit 715,489 and the death toll 25,298. The number of recoveries rose by 112, reaching 689,201. Ten more hospitalisation in public and private healthcare facilities brought […]
Tunis/Tunisia — A total of 9,760,917 COVID-19 vaccine doses were administered till November 11, including 5,790,783 first shots, 3,723,928 boosters, 233,093 third doses and 13,113 travel shots, the Health Ministry said. 33,249 shots (13,128 first shots, 10,153 boosters, 9,756 third doses and 212 travel shots) were administered on November 11. The number of fully vaccinated […]
“For years we have been treated like this, but it’s worse since Covid.” All five clinics in Mthatha have slow service and long queues. Patients in Bedford Orthopaedic Hospital in Mthatha say they wait weeks for surgery. People wait in line from the early hours, sometimes standing outside in the rain. People complain of poor […]
Nairobi — The World pneumonia day will be celebrated today amid calls from health advocates on leaders to scale up coordination between National and County governments to defeat the disease. According to the Ministry’s Preventive and Promotive Health Services Director Andrew Mulwa, 9,000 children died in 2018 as a result of pneumonia. “The world pneumonia […]
Exposed: misleading Pfizer claims that one billion Covid-19 doses will be distributed to ‘low and middle-income nations’ In a letter to Amnesty, Pfizer admits that less than 10% of doses have been shipped to low-income countries ‘The fact is that this company is still putting profits first’ – Patrick Wilcken Amnesty urges pharmaceutical companies to […]
Nigeria failed to achieve the Family Planning target of enabling more women and girls of reproductive age to have access to contraceptives by the year 2020. Nigeria had an estimated population of 206 million as of 2020, according to the National Population Commission (NPC), and is projected to become the third most populous nation after […]
The first batch of foreign healthcare specialists expected to help Sierra Leone treat victims of last week’s deadly tanker explosion have arrived in the country. The group of 10 Senegalese medics airlifted by the World Health Organisation (WHO) is part of the international Emergency Medical Teams (EMT) requested by the West African country, which is […]
Cape Town — What does health have to do with climate change? If you stop to think about it: Everything. A report by the United Nations Environment Program looked at how higher temperatures in cities would effect the health of the people who live there. This is because cities will be even hotter due to […]
Michigan, U.S. — My life as an African researcher gives me a unique grasp of the issue of health inequality. I was born in a small rural town in Ethiopia, and amcurrently working in Flint, Michigan, a city that has gained international renown as a source of lead contaminated water that was ignored by public […]
Africa’s sharp increase in diabetes is clashing with the COVID-19 pandemic and poor access to vaccines. Africa’s death rates from COVID-19 infections are significantly higher in patients with diabetes, according to a preliminary analysis which the World Health Organization (WHO) presented today in advance of the World Diabetes Day on 14 November. “COVID-19 is delivering […]
Abuja — FIRST Lady, Aisha Buhari, has tasked stakeholders in the health sector to work together for eradication of Tuberculosis in the country. President Muhammdu Buhari’s wife,who is the Global Tuberculosis Ambassador, insisted that all stakeholders must work as a team if according to her, Nigerians wants to eradicate Tuberculosis from the country, through a […]