Reuters PARIS, Dec 27 (Reuters) – Niger has reported the highly contagious H5N1 strain of avian influenza, or bird flu, among poultry in a village in the south of the country, the Paris-based World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) said on Tuesday. The outbreak in the south of the Tahoua region killed most of a…
By Jerry Omondi – The World Health Organization (WHO) is hopeful that the health emergencies that have troubled the world in 2022 will be declared over at different stages of 2023. Speaking on Wednesday at the organization’s press briefing, Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom pointed out that 2022 has been a challenging year , with the spread of…
By Jerry Omondi 20 people are suspected to have died of cholera in southern Nigeria’s Cross River state, local Premium Times reports. Some ten villages have been affected this week, prompting health authorities to bolster surveillance in the region. The Permanent Secretary at the Cross River Ministry of Health, Iwara Iwara, confirmed the cholera outbreak, but…
By Melody Chironda Each year, the World Health Organization, WHO’s World malaria report provides a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of trends in malaria control and elimination across the globe. Malaria is a life-threatening disease caused by parasites that are transmitted to people through the bites of infected female Anopheles mosquitoes. Symptoms, including fever, headache, and chills usually appear…
Public health officials, experts, researchers, and scientists around Africa will gather at a major conference at the African Union Commission in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, this week to take stock of how ready, in a post-COVID-19 world, African countries are to face up to the next disease threat. ‘Beyond COVID-19: Pathogen Genomics and Bioinformatics for Health…
AP Africa’s top public health body says the continent is set to receive its first batch of mpox vaccines as a donation from South Korea.File Photo: A colorized transmission electron micrograph of monkeypox particles (red) found within an infected cell (blue), cultured in the laboratory that was captured and color-enhanced at the NIAID Integrated Research…
HARARE, ZIMBABWE — In October, Zimbabwe became the first African country to approve the use of the injectable HIV prevention drug called cabotegravir. A 32-year-old Zimbabwean woman, who requested not to be identified, said she received an injection of the HIV prevention drug while she was working in the United States. She had been taking HIV…
By CGTN Africa By Mutwiri Mutuota Kenya, was on Wednesday, spared an international ban from athletics but the East African nation is not out of the woods yet over spiraling cases of doping. World Athletics announced that the distance running powerhouse will continue to be monitored closely following the conclusion of its two-day Council Meeting in…
By Halligan Agade -36 mins ago The United Nations has grim news about the global fight against HIV/AIDS. In a UNAIDS report released in conjunction with World AIDS day, the organisation said the world is not on track to end the AIDS pandemic because new infections are rising and AIDS deaths are continuing in too many communities. “Inequalities…
By Halligan Agade African governments must invest funding in cancer research, awareness, prevention and treatment to curb the rising numbers of cases, resulting in a massive loss of lives. This was a clarion call during the 7th Kenya International Cancer Conference that brought together haematologists, oncologists at Kenya’s seaside city of Mombasa for the three-day event…
