Maternal Health Activists Battle Awaits Supreme Court Verdict
By Andante Okanya KAMPALA – A petition by maternal health activists seeking to compel Government to provide essential adequate kits in referral hospitals for the mothers’...
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Bills Gates’ Foundation Donates Record $50million To Fight Ebola In West Africa
‘By fighting Ebola now, we can make sure it doesn’t become an endemic in [West] Africa,’ the Microsoft co-founder tweeted on Wednesday. The donation is...
Bills Gates' Foundation Donates Record $50million To Fight Ebola In West Africa
‘By fighting Ebola now, we can make sure it doesn’t become an endemic in [West] Africa,’ the Microsoft co-founder tweeted on Wednesday. The donation is...
‘Merciless,’ Spread Of Ebola In Liberia Must Be Stopped In Its Tracks, Security Council Told
Special Representative Karin Landgren briefs the Security Council on the spread of Ebola in Liberia. UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe Liberia is facing its greatest threat since...
UN Health Agency Convenes Meeting To Weigh Ebola Therapies, Vaccines
Local construction workers at the Island Clinic, one of the five Ebola treatment centres with 100 beds that will be opened in Monrovia, Liberia. Photo:...
Deadly Ebola hits 5th West African Nation
DAKAR – The Ebola epidemic that has killed more than 1,500 people across West Africa spread to a fifth country in the region on Friday...
WHO Shuts Sierra Leone Lab After Worker Infected with Ebola
The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday it had shut a laboratory in Sierra Leone after a health worker there was infected with Ebola,...
Flight Restrictions Hamper Ability To Battle Ebola – UN
The United Nations today cautioned against flight restrictions into and out of Ebola-affected countries in West Africa, saying such limitations were preventing the transport of...
African Coffee Becoming All The Rage
BARRISTA Stanley Ngubeni presides over the counter at Braamfontein’s Double Shot Coffee and Tea. “I got employed here last year in August … I had...
More than 3,000 Cholera Cases Recorded In Accra Alone Since July
More than 3,000 cholera cases have so far been recorded in the Greater Accra region...
Ebola: WHO-Convened Ethics Panel Endorses Use Of Experimental Drugs
Ebola: WHO-convened ethics panel endorses use of experimental drugs A woman waits to enter an isolation ward to visit her husband, along with Liberian Ministry...
Celebrating Youth Day, UN Stresses Importance Of Good Mental Health
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon meets with his special guest Raquelina Langa, a young student from Mozambique. UN Photo/Mark Garten Each year 20 per cent of the...
UN Health Official Unveils $100 Million Ebola Response Plan
West Africa is confronted with a “fast-moving…unprecedented outbreak” of the deadly Ebola disease accompanied by “unprecedented challenges,” but the head of the United Nations...
Sierra Leone declares Ebola state Of Emergency: Questions Over Safety In The U.S.
In this photo taken on Sunday, July 27, 2014, medical personnel inside a clinic taking care of Ebola patients in the Kenema District on the...
Ebola Facts – All You Need To know To Protect Yourself And Loved Ones
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Fears ‘Out Of Control’ Ebola Outbreak Could Spread To Other Continents
Fears that the west African Ebola outbreak could spread to other continents has grown with European and Asian countries on alert and a leading...
Fears 'Out Of Control' Ebola Outbreak Could Spread To Other Continents
Fears that the west African Ebola outbreak could spread to other continents has grown with European and Asian countries on alert and a leading...
UK holds Emergency Meeting Over Ebola Outbreak In Africa
Britain on Wednesday held a top-level government meeting to discuss the spread of...
Nigeria Tracking 30,000 People At Risk Of Contracting Ebola
Nigerian health authorities are in the process of tracing more than 30,000 people who...
Marking World Hepatitis Day, UN Appeals For Boost In Global Momentum To Tackle Disease
With 1.4 million deaths every year attributed to acute and chronic liver disease, the United Nations health agency is marking World Hepatitis Day by calling on...