WHO cites reports saying 45 dead in Congo fighting, warns of disease risks
The World Health Organization said on Thursday that over 2,000 people have been wounded by fighting in and around Congo's ...
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Niger becomes the first African country to eliminate a major blindness-inducing infection
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), which just sent its congratulations, Niger has gone down as the first ...
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Unemployed KZN Doctors Take to the Streets To Demand Government Open Doors to Job Opportunities
Fed up with the pattern of unemployment each year, hundreds of unemployed doctors marched to the Health Department's ...
Trump’s foreign aid freeze causes fear of HIV resurgence in Africa
The Trump administration has said that foreign assistance programs will be paused for three months as it reviews how money is being spent.
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Rabies cases surge in Cape fur seals
The National Institute for Communicable Diseases Of South Africa (NICD) has issued an alert regarding rising rabies cases in ...
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Digital coding, tracking can save continent billions in lost tobacco tax revenues
Digital cording and tracking offers a global solution that also verifies product authenticity to combat illicit trade and ...
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Experts say health taxes will curb NCDs
KAMPALA - Experts are calling for taxes on harmful products to curb the rising non-communicable diseases (NCDs) burden in Uganda.Health taxes are levies imposed on products that harm both human and ...
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PEPFAR freeze threatens millions: South Africa’s HIV crisis deepens amid US aid suspension
The suspension of PEPFAR funding risks cutting off HIV treatment for 20.6 million people globally. NOWinSA: South African ...
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World News
By Euan Ward The action by Salwan Momika, an Iraqi immigrant, set off protests across the Muslim world in 2023 ... of H.I.V. Resurgence in Africa Patients and health care advocates said the ...
South African troops are dying in the DRC: why they’re there and what’s going wrong
The Southern African Development Community intervention force in the mission in the DRC is outgunned and outmanned.
Wetlands in South Africa’s Addo elephant park are in danger: what’s being done to protect them
Environmental scientists have compiled the first list of wetlands in the park. This will be useful to measure the effects of ...
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Implications of conflict on vaccination in the Sahel region
The Sahel region is a geographical belt in Africa that stretches from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea, between the Sahara ...