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President Yahya Jammeh’s traditional herbal treatment for HIV has had an unanticipated side-effect, say HIV experts in the country – rather than...

Five months after a specialised facility for multi-drug resistant Tuberculosis (MDR-TB) patients was established at Kenyatta National Hospital in...

The number of children dying before their fifth birthday in Kenya has risen in the past 10 years, according to health specialists. One in nine...

The Royal Victoria Teaching Hospital (RVTH) has been recently declared as a No Smoking Zone by the Secretary of State for Health and Social Welfare...

Honourable Malick Njie, the secretary of state for Health and Social Welfare has disclosed that Kuntaur Health Centre in the Central River Region is...

The Nigerian Ministry of Health is trying to determine what caused a gastroenteritis outbreak that has claimed 120 lives in northern Nigeria’s Sokoto...

A cholera outbreak that has bridged Zimbabwe's dry season is proving difficult to contain and has spread from the cities to rural areas. There are...

The Gambia last week joined the rest of the world to observe World Mental Health Day. The theme for this year World Mental Health Day is ‘Making...

Cross-border female genital mutilation / cutting (FGM/C) is on the rise in West Africa according to the UN, spurring the need to impose a region-wide...

Malaria has killed 401 people in the last four weeks in northern Nigeria’s Katsina state, according to local health officials. “In the last 28 days...