Gambia, Africa

Omar Kebba Joof, a six-year-old boy from Latrikunda Sabiji, has been suffering from respiratory difficulties since he was one week old. And now a...

The Food Standards Agency has designed the ‘eatwell plate’ to help people get the appropriate balance of foods and nutrients in their daily diet. ...

Ebrima Cham, a four-year old child residing in Bundung, is urgently in need of assistance in order to undergo overseas treatment. He is a cerebral...

Officials of the National Malaria Control Program (NMCP), at the end of last week, convened a sensitisation workshop on the new malaria medicine and...

Maternal mortality is a global health that is crucial to our national health indicators. In this Women’s Weekly edition, we provide a documented...

Intermittent preventive Treatment in  pregnancy (IPTP)  also known as  Intermittent  Presumptive Therapy  or Intermittent  Protective Treatment ...

Two of the four young children who underwent congenital heart surgery in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, returned to Banjul on Saturday...

The Regional Director of the WHO recently spoke on the role of traditional health practitioners in primary health care. The full text of his speech...

Dr Tamsir Mbowe, the director of Health and Medical Services and the director general of the Presidential Treatment Programme has disclosed that a...

After being away for 24 years studying medical plants and their pharmaceutical use at Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, Senegal, Abdoul Kadry...