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SSA in the grip of a rapidly expanding diabetes epidemic
Sub-Saharan Africa is in the midst of a rapidly expanding diabetes epidemic that could have devastating health and economic consequences for the region unless...
Nigeria launches mass meningitis vaccination campaign after 336 deaths
Nigeria is launching a mass vaccination campaign as part of its emergency response to an outbreak of meningitis in its north-western states, as the...
Kenyan public service doctors reject no-private-work clause
Public service doctors in Kenya have removed a contentious clause barring them from private practice in a document filed recently in court, says a...
Mozambique warns that cholera outbreak not slowing
Mozambique is battling a cholera outbreak that has infected 1,222 people and killed two, the country's health ministry said, warning that it has been...
Ebola nurse's death to be investigated among claims of treatment being refused
The 2014 West African Ebola outbreak killed 11,310 people. Liberian nursing assistant Salome Karwah was not one of them. The disease that tore through...
Drug resistant malaria detected in Africa for the first time
For the first time in Africa, researchers said, they have detected a malaria parasite that is partially resistant to the top anti-malaria drug, artemisinin,...
Officials of Kenyan doctors' union jailed; Zim doctor's strike looms
A Kenyan court has jailed seven union officials over a doctors’ strike, while in Zimbabwe, government doctors are bracing for a crippling strike.
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Most Zimbabwean deaths in SA linked to HIV/Aids
Figures from Zimbabwe’s South African Consulate show that more than 300 Zimbabweans die in SA every month, with more than a third of deaths related to...