Africa, World

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...

A tropical flesh-eating disease, Buruli ulcer, is spreading across West Africa and has infected at least 40,000 people leaving them with bloody...

With 6,461 cholera cases and 122 deaths, experts say the cholera epidemic in Guinea-Bissau is out of control. The number of reported cases has...

New report finds more funding leading to increased coverage of malaria control interventions The global burden of malaria remains enormous, but...

UNICEF today released new figures that show the rate of deaths of children under five continued to decline in 2007.   The new estimates show a 27...

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...

Officials have quarantined Agbata village in southern Togo, and plan to cull all poultry within a three kilometre radius, as they await lab...

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