Efforts to halt an Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo have made "significant progress", with the virus now contained to a far smaller and mainly rural...Infectious Diseases
A new treatment-decision score for the diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB) in children with HIV performed well, and when used in an algorithm may facilitate prompt treatment...
October 16th, 2019
Fewer than 1 in 10 people living with a mental health condition in South Africa receive the care they need and there are huge disparities between provinces in the...
October 16th, 2019
Burnout, recently recognised by the World Health Organisation as a syndrome brought about by chronic workplace stress, is reaching epidemic levels, writes Graham...
October 9th, 2019
Eight innovators from seven African countries have been announced as the inaugural awardees of the Grand Challenges (GC) Africa drug discovery scheme, each receiving up...
Tanzania has denied it was withholding information from the World Health Organisation (WHO) on suspected cases of Ebola, saying it was not hiding any outbreak of the...Weekly Roundup
The national Health Department has been forced to postpone a nationwide rollout of the latest blockbuster HIV treatment amid persistent concerns about what may be a low...
September 18th, 2019
Confronted with failing, under-resourced and understaffed healthcare systems at home, most African leaders seek treatment abroad, writes Dr Chipo Dendere of Wellesley...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has announced that Kenya is introducing the world’s first malaria vaccine into the country. Kenya is the third African nation to...Weekly Roundup
Despite the fact that cryptococcal meningitis is the second leading killer of people living with HIV, it mostly flies under the radar. According to the World Health...
