Africa
One year later, DR Congo’s Ebola outbreak remains relentless and devastating
“1 August, marks one year since the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) declared an outbreak of...
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Gender matters in responding to major disease outbreaks like Ebola
Written by Julia Smith, Simon Fraser University Despite over a year of containment efforts, the World Health Organisation recently declared...
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What is a Public Health Emergency of International Concern?
The World Health Organisation (WHO) on 17 July 2019 officially declared the Ebola outbreak in DR Congo a Public Health...
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How DR Congo’s Ebola outbreak became a Public Health Emergency of International Concern
On 17 July 2019, the Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus declared the Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in the...
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Nigerian health genomics and AI start-up raises nearly $5m funding
54gene (the D.B.A. of Stack Diagnostics), the African-focused healthtech genomics and AI start-up that is leading in the diagnosis and...
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Only Ghana has eliminated trachoma in Africa
Even though the number of people at risk of trachoma which is the world’s leading infectious cause of blindness, has...
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Somalia: Campaign aims to vaccinate 1 million children against polio
Health authorities rolled out a polio campaign yesterday in Puntland and Somaliland to vaccinate more than 940 000 children under...
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Ebola in Uganda: Index patient and grandma dead, third case confirmed
This week, healthnews.ng reported the spread of the Ebola virus disease to Uganda. The index patient, a 5-year-old child from...
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From DR Congo, Ebola spreads to Uganda
The Ministry of Health and the World Health Organization (WHO) have confirmed a case of Ebola Virus Disease in Uganda....
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