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Nigeria and Kenya struggling with exodus of doctors, nurses
Medical professionals are fleeing Nigeria in droves, with the country’s sky-high inflation, low salaries and overstretched healthcare system forcing thousands of doctors and nurses...
Tanzania winning NCD war as it merges HIV and diabetes care
Non-communicable diseases like hypertension and diabetes have emerged as serious health crises in developing countries, as HIV was a decade ago. New models of...
More than 100 epidemic emergencies in Africa since January
Since the start of this year, Africa has recorded 44 disease outbreaks, contributing to 104 active epidemic emergencies on the continent, according to the Africa...
Kenya faces health crisis as doctors strike looms
Kenyan doctors countrywide, including those in private hospitals, have given a seven-day ultimatum to the government under threat of a nationwide strike.
They doctors are...
Dependence on Indian-made drugs puts Africa at risk
Africa’s reliance on Indian pharmaceuticals poses a risk to the continent’s security of access to medicine, and this week’s Belgian presidency of the Council...
Zimbabwe proposes new medical research Bill
Zimbabwe has begun drafting new medical research legislation to initiate a national health research fund, among other priorities, in a reform process researchers hope...
Cameroon first to launch ‘routine’ malaria jab project
Cameroon has launched the world’s first routine malaria vaccine programme, which is expected to save tens of thousands of children’s lives per year across...
WHO needs $1.5bn for health crises, mainly in Africa
The World Health Organisation will need $1.5bn this year for 41 health emergencies resulting from climate change, extreme weather events, food insecurity, conflict and...
$1bn plan for African vaccine manufacturing
As part of a new initiative from Gavi, the global vaccine alliance, up to $1bn will be made available to boost African vaccine manufacturing...
First shipment of malaria vaccine reaches Cameroon
Cameroon received its first shipment of Mosquirix malaria vaccines manufactured by British drugmaker GSK last week – the 310 000 doses arriving as the...
Corruption fears as Kenyan President signs UHC Bill
Kenyan President William Ruto has approved controversial legislation in the biggest shake-up of the health sector in more than 20 years, with a new...
Fresh call for Zimbabwe to outlaw child marriages after teen dies giving birth
The Matabeleland Institute for Human Rights (MIHR) has called upon the government to enact a child protection law that outlaws child marriage. This follows...
Get a jab or resign, Zimbabwean government tells state workers
Zimbabwe's government has said it would force unvaccinated civil servants and teachers to resign in a bid to ramp up the uptake of COVID-19...
WHO confirms Marburg virus discovered for first time in West Africa
The World Health Organisation has cofirmed one death in Guinea from Marburg virus, a highly infectious haemorrhagic fever similar to Ebola. It marks the...
J&J vaccines from Gqeberha plant wing their way to AU states
The first monthly shipment of Johnson & Johnson (J&J) COVID-19 vaccines secured by the African Vaccine Acquisition Trust for African Union (AU) member started...
Nigeria’s hospital doctors embark on ‘indefinite strike’
Doctors in Nigeria's government hospitals began a strike over pay, insurance benefits and poor facilities on Monday, union leaders said, with the country facing...
Africa's black market in vaccinations, test results and certificates
Ahead of the roll out of South Africa’s mass COVID-19 vaccination programme, security experts have warned of a thriving black market for vaccine certificates,...
A 'variant of concern' discovered in Tanzanians visiting Angola
The Kwazulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform (Krisp) team has discovered the most mutated COVID-19 variant, yet, in Angola on travellers from Tanzania, a...
New Tanzanian president's reversal on COVID-19 denialism
Tanzania’s new president announced plans to appoint a panel of experts to advise her on how best to curb the spread of the coronavirus,...
Arrests for posts questioning Tanzania president's health
Police in Tanzania have arrested four people on suspicion of spreading rumours on social media that President John Magufuli is ill, reports BBC News....
Tanzania under WHO and human rights pressure on COVID
Under pressure from the WHO, Human Rights Watch and calls for Tanzania's expulsion from the Commonwealth, President John Magufuli's government may be budging from...
U-turn on Zimbabweans having to pay for COVID-19 vaccine
Zimbabwe’s Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube has backtracked on his statement that the coronavirus vaccine will not be free for the country’s citizens, reports Anadolu...
Tanzanian president: COVID vaccines 'a plot to steal Africa's wealth'
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has urged Tanzania to follow science, a day after its president said COVID-19 vaccines were dangerous and unnecessary if...
Zimbabwe ministers 'eliminated' by medical assassins
Zimbabwe Information Secretary Nick Mangwana who sparked a row by suggesting that some Zimbabwe government ministers and officials who have succumbed to COVID-19 could...
Bogus Zim doctor worked at hospital for 7 months undetected
A man who posed undetected as a doctor at one of Zimbabwe's biggest hospitals for seven months has been arrested and charged with fraud...
Zimbabwe doctors may need state approval to work abroad
Zimbabwe is seeking to tighten the rules on how a certificate which its doctors need in order to get work abroad is issued as...
Radical changes to Zimbabwe medical training draws criticism
Two radical modifications in the training of medical doctors in Zimbabwe have caused a ruckus in the medical fraternity where they have met with...
7 babies stillborn in a single night at Harare Central Hospital
Seven babies were stillborn, out of eight Caesareans performed at Harare Central Hospital in Zimbabwe on Monday night after urgent treatment was delayed because...
Madagascar's public hospitals to turn away COVID-19 patients
Public hospitals in Madagascar said they’ve reached full capacity and will only accept patients with the most severe forms of COVID-19 as cases surge...
Egypt blames doctors for spread of coronavirus
Egypt is arresting medics who speak out about the country's coronavirus crisis, Business Insider says according to multiple reports. The arrests come after the...
Zimbabwe Health Minister fired over US$42m tender scandal
Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa has sacked Health Minister Obadiah Moyo for “conduct inappropriate for a government minister”. The dismissal was confirmed by presidential spokesperson...
Zimbabwe raises government worker salaries after nurses' strike
Zimbabwe has raised salaries for all government workers by 50%, hours after nurses stopped work at a major government hospital in the capital Harare,...
Prayer has rid the country of COVID-19 says Tanzania's president
Tanzania's President John Magufuli has declared the country "coronavirus-free" thanks to prayers by citizens, reports BBC News. "The corona disease has been eliminated thanks...
Police struggle to round up 100s of African quarantine escapees
Police across swathes of Africa have failed to find more than a fraction of hundreds of people who have escaped from often unsanitary and...
Zim govt: Farm ownership guarantee to growers of medicinal cannabis
The Zimbabwe Health Ministry has announced that all local and foreign investors promoting the production of cannabis will be offered 100% ownership of their...
Tanzania accused by opposition of hiding true COVID-19 stats
Tanzania’s infection rate and death toll from COVID-19 are far higher than the government is acknowledging, Daily Maverick reports opposition activists claim. They insist...
WHO's worst case scenario sees up to 24,000 COVID deaths in SA
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has predicted that South Africa will experience the third highest toll in Africa from the coronavirus pandemic, with just...
Burundi expels WHO, Tanzania's president calls for prayers to 'vanquish' COVID
Burundi has ordered the expulsion of the World Health Organisation expert team co-ordinating the country's response to the coronavirus pandemic, while the president of...
WHO study: Up to 190,000 may die in Africa over next year
Eighty-three thousand to 190 000 people in Africa could die of COVID-19 and 29 million to 44 million could get infected in the first...
Rwanda and Lesotho extend lockdown, Ghana lifts it
Lesotho, despite not yet recording any COVID-19 cases, has joined Rwanda in extending their lockdowns, while Ghana has become the first African country to...