Health

By Ebi Kesiena The World Health Organisation (WHO) has appealed for calm following the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Uganda, insisting that the disease remains manageable despite its classification as a...

By Enyichukwu Enemanna The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday expressed concern over the “scale and speed” of an outbreak of a rare variant of Ebola in eastern Congo, where authorities reported that...

By Emmanuel Nduka President John Mahama has disclosed that Ghana lost about $78 million in United States Agency for International Development (USAID) health funding following the closure of several U.S.-backed aid programmes. Speaking at the World...

By Enyichukwu Enemanna  A US appeals court on Friday temporarily halted mail delivery of mifepristone, the medication used in the majority of abortions in the United States, a decision the distribution company said it would challenge...

By Enyichukwu Enemanna The United States has criticised Zambia for failing to engage on a new health aid agreement worth over $1 billion in U.S. funding, stating that ​repeated outreach from Washington were ignored till April...

By Enyichukwu Enemanna An Appeal Court in the Christian-dominated Kenya has annuled a landmark ruling that says abortion was a fundamental right, pushing hundreds of thousands of women and girls to illegal health centres, sometimes operated...