Category : Health

In a bid to curb the spread of Ebola, Guinea’s President Alpha Conde has declared a 45-day “health emergency” in five regions of the epidemic-hit...

China will help Africa with its public health system post-Ebola, saida Chinese official on Friday at a China-Africa health roundtable. Lin Songtian, director of the...

This plane at the UN Humanitarian Response Depot (UNHRD) in Italy is bound for Sierra Leone with $300,000 worth of World Food Programme (WFP) equipment...

According to the US Defense Department, the US would deploy its Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear brigade’s headquarters to Liberia to further combat the Ebola...

A health worker prepares to inject a man with an Ebola vaccine in Conakry, Guinea, . The World Health Organization began large-scale testing of an...

FILE – Canadian Peter Ash, who founded the lobbying group Under The Same Sun, holds an albino boy at a school in Tanzania’s Mwanza region...

Liberia has discharged its last confirmed Ebola patient, as it reported for the first time in nine months it had gone a full week without...

By KnaA report by the Ministry of Health indicates that Kenya has the third lowest breastfeeding record in Africa. The profile has shown that only...

The World Health Organization (WHO) today appealed to donors to provide $1 billion for life-saving health needs ranging from childhood vaccinations to surgical care for...

An experimental antiviral drug shows some early, encouraging signs of effectiveness in its first human test against Ebola in West Africa, but only if patients...

The 16-year-old Kenyan girl found out she was HIV-positive and pregnant at a clinic in the Korogocho slums two years ago. She still isn’t sure...

EmbryoCellect™ is a pre-implantation genetic screening kit designed to increase the chance of a successful IVF cycle. Reproductive Health Science (ASX:RHS) has now entered into...

As the Ebola outbreak in West Africa abates, President Barack Obama is withdrawing nearly all the U.S. troops sent to Liberia in September when the...

Grief among the more than 16,000 children orphaned by the Ebola outbreak in West Africa runs deep, but most of them have been taken in...

Dr Chris Mair in Sierra Leone By Sue Restan A heroic Highland doctor – who has vowed to return to West Africa to continue the...

By Jo Dunlop, contributed ‘Jide Adesina   Siblings Jusif and Bilikisu Koroma have survived Ebola. Now back in the community, they have joined other survivors in the...

A QRC volunteer delivering an Ebola awareness lecture to people in Mauritania. Qatar Red Crescent (QRC) has launched an Ebola awareness campaign in Mauritania, targeting...

In our eat-and-run, massive-portion-sized culture, maintaining a healthy weight can be tough—and losing weight, even tougher. If you’ve tried and failed to lose weight before,...