Africa embraces ‘Go to Work on an Egg’ to boost maternal health and nutrition
Poverty and malnutrition are rife in Malawi. But a growing body evidence suggests the humble egg could be a highly...
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Africa faces new threat as chronic disease rate leaps
Between 1990 and 2023 the burden of non-communicable disease almost doubled, putting strain on health systems...
Collapsing child vaccination in South Africa ‘a public health emergency’
Proportion of infants who have received no immunisation has trebled in the past decade...
El Nino could cause explosion of rabid seals, animal health experts warn
Changing patterns in fish stocks may drive uninfected migrating seals into rabid populations...
DRC’s Ebola outbreak has 70 per cent chance of spreading to South Sudan, new modelling predicts
The still-growing epidemic poses a serious risk to a country with some of the world’s weakest healthcare...
Kenyan court halts US plan to open Ebola quarantine centre
The plan to isolate US nationals was opposed by health groups who feared it could import the deadly virus...
Ebola may have been spreading undetected for three weeks as death toll climbs to 88
World Health Organisation declared public health emergency over spread of rare Bundibugyo strain, which has no vaccine...
Botswana health crisis deepens as diamond trade drains the country’s finances
Six months after the nation declared a public health emergency due to low supplies, a watchdog report paints a bleak...
African leaders to push for major debt relief at G20
Repayments among poor countries have hit their highest level in decades, swallowing budgets meant for health, education and development...
Almost nine in 10 clinics in war-ravaged DRC run low on medicines
Red Cross warns that health centres in the eastern region face a dire situation amid a mass exodus of medical...
