Elias Biryabarema, Reuters News KAMPALA – Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has extended a quarantine placed on two districts that are the epicentre of the country’s Ebola outbreak by 21 days, adding that his government’s response to the disease was succeeding. Movement into and out of Mubende and Kassanda districts in central Uganda will be restricted up…
By CGTN Africa Friday’s delivery was the sixth in a series of vaccine donations China has made to the country since February 2021 The donations are part of a pledge made by China at the Eighth Ministerial Conference of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) to provide another 1 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses to Africa.
Reuters LONDON, Nov 23 (Reuters) – Britain and South Africa on Wednesday announced a new health and science partnership to mark the second day of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s state visit to London, the first such official guest hosted by Britain’s King Charles. Charles, 74, had rolled out traditional pomp and ceremony to welcome Ramaphosa, hosted…
HARARE, Nov 20 (Reuters) – Zimbabwean health workers have left the country in droves over the past year, a senior official at the Health Services Board (HSB) revealed on Sunday. More than 4,000 health workers have left since 2021, HSB chairperson Dr Paulinus Sikosana told Reuters. This includes more than 1,700 registered nurses who resigned…
By Halligan Agade Tuberculosis (TB) infections in Tanzania have gone down from 306 patients out of 100,000 people in 2015 to 208 patients out of 100,000 people in 2021, a senior official said on Friday. “The reduction of infections of TB is about 32 percent,” said Catherine Joachim, Head of the Health Sector Resource Secretariat in…
By Christine Maema World leaders gathered in Egypt’s Red Sea resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh on Monday for the United Nation’s annual summit on climate change. In his opening remarks, Egypt’s president Abdel Fattah El-Sisi described planet Earth as “a world of suffering” and asked, “Is it not high time today to put an end…
By Halligan Agade In a bid to address vaccine inequality between rich and poor nations, a South African biotech company is spearheading a consortium backed by the World Health Organisation. Afrigen is taking on pharmaceutical giants in its quest to produce Africa’s first homegrown mRNA COVID-19 vaccine and share it with the global south. This is…
Reuters News JOHANNESBURG, Aug 31 (Reuters) – Aspen Pharmacare has signed a deal with the Serum Institute of India to manufacture and sell four Aspen-branded vaccines for Africa, as it seeks to utilise its near-idle COVID-19 vaccine production lines in eastern South Africa. Aspen has a contract with Johnson & Johnson to package its COVID-19…
Reuters A surgical team led by Dr Tim Forgan uses the da Vinci Xi robot to assist in removing a cancerous rectal tumour from a female patient at Tygerberg public hospital in Cape Town, South Africa. The robot, which has four ‘arms’ and is controlled in real time by Forgan via an immersive 3D consul,…
By Chukwuma Muanya The most typical cause of infertility in men, and women are sexually transmitted diseases, especially gonorrhoea, followed by chlamydia Oladapo Ashiru is a professor of Anatomy and Consultant Reproductive Endocrinologist as well as Associated Reproductive Technique (ART)/Joint Pioneer of In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF)/Test Tube Baby in Nigeria. Ashiru, who is also the Chief…
