AFP | The incoming World Health Organization’s regional director for Africa, Faustine Ndugulile, died while receiving treatment, Tanzania’s parliament speaker said on Wednesday. The cause of...
By Michelle Meineke Achieving the World Health Organization (WHO) target of reducing malaria by 90 percent by 2030 would not only avert 600,000 deaths annually, but...
AFP | The UN’s health agency on Thursday declared an end to a nearly 4-month epidemic of Marburg virus in Equatorial Guinea, saying the disease, a...
Kenya will become a regional hub for medical equipment, which will help neighboring countries get required medicines faster.
Reuters | Deaths on the African continent from COVID-19 are expected to fall by nearly 94 percent in 2022 compared to last year, modelling by the...
AP | WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is expected to be confirmed by the U.N. health agency’s member countries for a second five-year term on Tuesday....
AP | Zimbabwe has launched a new COVID-19 vaccination campaign that includes jabbing children aged 12 and above to rescue a drive faltering due to vaccine...
AFP | US vaccine maker Moderna announced Monday that it would build its first mRNA jab-manufacturing facility in Africa after signing an agreement with Kenya’s government...
Bloomberg | African governments are playing catch-up in vaccinating their populations against the coronavirus, with just 12 percent of the continent’s 1.3 billion people fully inoculated...
"Over the past two years, the African continent has gotten smarter, faster and better at responding to each new surge in cases of COVID-19." - Matshidiso...
This is not Moderna’s vaccine, it is the Afrigen mRNA hub vaccine.
"With the incredible growth of Omicron globally, new variants are likely to emerge," warned WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
It is a moral disaster that some people are making billions of dollars by sitting on vaccine technology as billions are left unprotected and millions die...
AP | South Africa’s noticeable drop in new COVID-19 cases in recent days may signal that the country’s dramatic omicron-driven surge has passed its peak, medical...
Reuters | Nigeria plans to ban flights from Argentina, Britain, Canada and Saudi Arabia from this week in retaliation for being added to those countries’ red...
The Bahamas government has reversed its policy of imposing travel restrictions on persons coming from certain African countries, indicating that the decision had been taken due...
South Africa alerted the world to Omicron late last month
Our health team has advised that it is not necessary at this time to impose a travel ban on South African countries - St. Kitts &...
Press Release | Botswana has become the first high-burden country to be certified for achieving an important milestone on the path to eliminating mother-to-child transmission of...
The Trinidad & Tobago-based Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) says it stands ready to support the approval for recommendation of treatments against the coronavirus (COVID-19), including...
AP | The World Health Organization (WHO) said Friday that its director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, is running unopposed for a second five-year term. Tedros, the first...
“Henrietta Lacks was exploited. She is one of many women of color whose bodies have been misused by science" - WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
"I will not stay silent when companies and countries that control the global supply of vaccines think the world's poor should be satisfied with leftovers" -...
The World Health Organization (WHO)’s failure to sound the alarm until months into West Africa’s Ebola outbreak was an “egregious failure” which added to the enormous...
The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) says Latin America and the Caribbean have established new targets for expanding diagnosis and antiretroviral treatment (ART) and reducing patients’...
West African nations are working to contain an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus suspected to have killed at least 59 people in Guinea, with symptoms...
A world-renowned clinic in Haiti that has become a leader in global health while leading the fight against HIV/AIDS has won a top global health prize....
(Reuters) – The Haitian government along with international partners including the World Health Organization (WHO) launched a vaccination campaign against cholera on Saturday targeting 100,000 people...
More than one-third of African women and a quarter of African men are estimated to be overweight, and the World Health Organization predicts that will rise...
