Africa, World

At least three German Surgeons, Dr Lei Li, Dr Siegert and Dr Knoop, from Germany are expected to arrive in The Gambia in the first week of May, to...

The Portuguese version of UNICEF’s annual flagship report The State of the World’s Children 2008: Child Survival was launched on 20 March in Guinea...

The threat of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) has been heightened by the displacement of an estimated 300,000 people in Kenya's recent...

At least 8,000 children between the ages of six months and five years have received vitamin A supplements in a health campaign aimed at eradicating...

Information reaching this paper hint that the fast rate of the existence of private medical herbalists is fast becoming detrimental to the country’s...

Isatou Marenah, president of the Society for Women and Aids in Africa, the Gambia chapter (SWAAGAM) has disclosed that more than 17.5 million women...

The Government of Malawi and the International Development Association (IDA) today signed a US$25 million grant to improve water supply and...

10 000 health workers stop polio virus through immunization Somalia is again polio-free, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) announced...

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has completed its water-supply project in Cyuga-Gihogwe, a rural neighbourhood on the outskirts...

As many as 1 million people in the conflict-affected areas of the Central African Republic (CAR) do not have access to clean water and are at risk of...