Africa, World

When Aisha (not her real name) went into labour in Gabu, 160km east of the capital Bissau, she did not know she was pregnant with twins. The first...

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...

Health ministers from countries of the African meningitis belt today committed themselves to introduce a highly promising candidate meningitis...

Environmental experts warn gas flaring by the Nigerian oil industry in the southern Delta region causes acid rain, respiratory infections, skins...

Health and environment ministers in Africa have resolved to build a strategic alliance to reduce environmental threats to human health and...

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...

Bellissima, on bustling Gabon Street in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, could be just another upmarket café, except that each order comes with a...

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...