Health

The World Health Organization has declared Africa the enduring epicenter of the global HIV crisis, with 65 percent of the world’s 40.8 million people living with HIV residing in the region. The stark revelation came alongside...

The world’s first malaria treatment specifically designed for infants and very young children has been approved and is set for rollout in high-risk African countries within weeks. Until now, babies under 5 kilograms, or 11 pounds,...

The ECOWAS Parliament has declared a region-wide offensive against kush, a deadly synthetic drug ravaging West African communities, with Sierra Leone at the epicentre of the crisis. Kush, a potent psychoactive drug, has triggered spiking addiction...

A groundbreaking study published in The Lancet Global Health has exposed a disturbing reality that nearly one in six cancer medications sampled across Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, and Cameroon contained incorrect levels of active ingredients, putting patients...

By Enyichukwu Enemanna At least 40 people, including children and health care workers, have been killed in an attack on a hospital in Sudan at the weekend, the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed on Tuesday. The...

By Enyichukwu Enemanna Zambia's former president, who had "been receiving specialised treatment in South Africa" for an undisclosed illness, has died, his party said in a statement. Edgar Lungu, according to his Patriotic Front (PF), died...