News August 2021
As we fight COVID-19, let us not forget Non Communicable Diseases
During the first wave of COVID-19 , hospitals all over the world diverted their resources from routine care to the care of COVID-19 patients.
Read MoreMillions of children starving in northeast Nigeria
At least 2.3 million children and youth are going hungry in northeast Nigeria where an Islamist insurgency has forced farmers to flee their fields and put the region on the brink of critical food shortages.
Read MoreAHO urges public participation to eliminate Hepatitis
Graciano Masauso, President of Africa Health Organisation (AHO) has said that every African should come forward and play his role in complete elimination of Hepatitis from the continet as governments alone cannot fight the menace.
Read MoreCOVID-19 is becoming a problem for Sub Saharan Africa
When the COVID-19 pandemic first emerged in early 2020, medical experts and journalists were flummoxed by the low rates of infection and death throughout the African continent. Despite sub-par public health systems, dense metropolitan areas and extreme poverty, experts highlighted many reasons why COVID cases remained low in Africa. Some explanations included the continent's younger demographics, experience with epidemics like Ebola and the gift of time in delaying the spread of the virus to the continent.
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