Government should create the enabling environment for tackling the disease As in recent years, the 2024 World Cancer Day, commemorated yesterday was muted in Nigeria even though the disease is ravaging the country. While nobody knows what has happened to the cancer fund established in 2019 by the federal government, Nigeria recorded 124,815 new cases […]
Nairobi — The Ministry of Health conducted a cancer vaccination and screening campaign in Kirinyaga ahead of World Cancer Day on Sunday. The campaign happened during a medical camp in Kirinyaga Raimu primary school in collaboration with the Kirinyaga county government and targeted teenage girls in the age bracket of 10-14 against cervical cancer. According […]
A new brief, jointly developed by WHO, the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) and the University of Newcastle, unveils that quitting smoking can lower the risk of developing type 2 diabetes by as much as 30–40%. IDF estimates that 537 million people have diabetes, a number that continues to rise making diabetes the ninth cause of […]
As Nigeria joins other countries to commemorate the World Diabetes Day today, those living with the medical condition through the Diabetes Association of Nigeria have demanded the increase of sugary drink prices by at least 20 percent of their retail prices. They lamented that the cost of insulin has more than doubled, and demanded that […]
Rwandan-born Grace Mutesi on Thursday, November 9, was honoured among the 2023 award-winning Laureates by Fondation L’Oréal and UNESCO for her scientific work in preventing cervical cancer. Mutesi is a Ph.D. student in Life and Environmental Sciences and was recognised for her work in promoting women’s health through improved HPV vaccination coverage in Kenya. Her […]
DAR ES SALAAM: THE national study on indications of non-communicable diseases (Steps Survey 2023) in Tanzania (Steps Survey 2023) is at final stages for completion, it has been revealed. The government has expressed hopes the findings from the survey will enable improvement of policies and guidelines for effective implementation of interventions for fighting the non-communicable […]
Kisii — Nairobi has joined the Partnership for Healthy Cities, a prestigious global network of cities working to reduce noncommunicable diseases(NCDs) and injuries, along with New York, USA, and Osaka, Japan. The Partnership supports cities in implementing evidence-based solutions to promote health and prevent deaths. The Partnership for Healthy Cities is a collaboration between Bloomberg […]
Tadious Manyepo Sports Reporter GOVERNMENT, through the Ministry of Sport, Recreation, Arts and Culture have rolled out a nationwide “walk for life” initiative aimed at suffocating non-communicable diseases and drug abuse. The program was launched in Harare last Friday with over 1000 people participating in the ground-breaking 7km-walk from Bishop Gaul Avenue in Belvedere to […]
Around one hundred sympathisers of cancer patients in Seychelles defied the bad weather and gathered on the Beau Vallon beach in the north district of Mahe in front of the Sables D’Or Apartments on Wednesday in an awareness march for breast cancer. The annual activity formed part of the action plan of the organisers, Soroptimist […]
Zanzibar — THE Ampola Tasakhtaa Hospital in Zanzibar has organised a three-day medical camp for breast cancer screening. The screening, which started on Monday at the hospital premises, was preceded by one-day training for its nurses and doctors on how to handle breast cancer cases. Ms Mariam Tahir Mahfoudh, a nurse from the Hospital who […]
Gaborone — President Dr Mokgweetsi Masisi and First Lady Neo joined multitudes of the 73rd Session of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Conference committee delegates including Ministers of Health from African countries to Walk the Talk for six kilometres to beat non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Addressing the Walk the Talk participants in Gaborone on Sunday*August […]
Gaborone — “We are walking the talk of all the speeches and statements that we make all the time and we know that exercise is one of the best things that you can do for your health. In the African region, we very much work to bring an end to Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and infectious […]
Minister of Health Khumbize Kandodo Chiponda has said the much awaited National Cancer Center will open in December this year. Chiponda was speaking when she and other cabinet ministers, together with Indian High Commissioner to Malawi, toured the construction site of both Radiotherapy and Brachytherapy bunkers at the Center on Wednesday in Lilongwe. The first […]
The Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, has been recognised for gains made by the West Africa region in tackling neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) that affect more than 600 million people in Africa, nearly half of whom are in ECOWAS. ECOWAS was presented with a Leadership Award by Uniting to Combat Neglected Tropical Diseases […]
The number of overweight people in Rwanda has increased from 14 percent in 2013 to 18.6 percent in 2022, according to findings of a country-wide survey carried out by Rwanda Biomedical Centre (RBC). Dubbed “STEPS,” the study was done in the form of a household survey that gathered information on Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) risk factors […]
Health Minister Khaled Abdel Ghaffar said on Friday 23/06/2023 that as many as 100,000 citizens were examined within the presidential initiative to detect cancerous diseases. This came during a celebration held in Port Said city on the occasion of breaking Guinness World Records over raising awareness concerning cancerous diseases. The minister noted that more than […]
Cricket Namibia and its partners presented a monetary contribution to the Cancer Association of Namibia (CAN) over the weekend during an international match at United Sports Club. The donation was made as a result of Cricket Namibia and its partners’ #Pledge4Pink awareness campaign, which involved planning several activities and events to raise awareness and funds […]
Medical experts are sounding an alarm following revelations that nearly 3,000 women in the country die due to cervical cancer every year, putting the country as the highest with cervical cancer prevalence rate in the world. Medicines Sans Frontiers (MSF) has disclosed this during an engagement meeting with journalists in Blantyre. MSF says about 20,000 […]