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Susan Rowe, head teacher of the Coombes School in Wokingham, Berkshire, yesterday, donated medicament worth thousands of dalasis to the Tanji Health...

The National Nutrition Agency (NaNA) will embark on a month-long celebration of world Breastfeeding week instead of a week-long event. The theme of...

Niger’s Ministry of Livestock is intensifying its bird surveillance along the 1,500-kilometre border with northern Nigeria after a recent resurgence...

Dr Tamsir Mbowe, the director general of the Presidential Medical Programme and director of Health and Medical Services, has described the efficacy...

At least 19 medical doctors, nurses and health workers of the Cuban Medical Team in The Gambia, on Friday, graduated with master of sciences degrees,...

On the occasion of World Breastfeeding Week (1 to 7 August), UNICEF, along with the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA) and the World...

A cholera epidemic sweeping across Guinea Bissau has now infected 1,077 people - three-quarters of them in the capital Bissau - and killed 25,...

After she was admitted and discharged at the Sulayman Junkung Jammeh Hospital in Bwiam, Awa Badjie, a two-year  old girl, and a native of Gilanfari...

On 27 February 2005, the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), took effect. That was the world's first public health treaty. Countries...

No one expected that the reaction to empty condom dispensers on São Tomé and Príncipe would be so angry. "I thought the country had run out of...