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Health, like the rest of all the sectors that feature prominently in President Jammeh’s development master plan of The Gambia, has received a...

National Nutrition Agency (Nana) last Saturday organised a one-day sensitisation programme for stakeholders on the international code of marketing of...

Noor Ul-Islam Foundation, a registered charity based in The Gambia, yesterday, donated medical equipment worth over £50,000 to the Royal Victoria...

With more South African doctors now working abroad than in the country's ailing public health sector, the government needs to start aggressively...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has told people to stay away from Ugandan caves with bats, due to the fact that a tourist visiting Uganda was...

One Samba Bah of Bansang, a seven-year old boy, is in urgent need of overseas treatment. Suffering from a cancer on his left eye, he has been, for a...

Quality healthcare is a luxury often beyond the reach of those who live in Nairobi’s slums, such as mother-of-seven Grace Awour Opondo. "When you are...

Sex between prison inmates is a reality at Manica Provincial Prison, in central Mozambique, but because same-sex relations are taboo, and conjugal...

Cholera which first broke out in Guinea Bissau in May in the southern region of Tombali has now broken out in the capital Bissau killing four people...

HIV/AIDS funding to low- and middle-income countries reached a record level in 2007, according to a new report by UNAIDS. AIDS spending by the G8...