Director-General of the World Health Organization visits Cape Verde
The director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO) will visit Cape Verde for three days, starting on Wednesday January 10, the government announced Monday January […]
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Cholera emergency in Zimbabwe’s capital
Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe, has been declared in a state of emergency due to a resurgence of cholera, which has already claimed 51 lives, […]
£15 million funding to strengthen health workforce in Kenya, Nigeria and Ghana
The UK will provide a multi-million pound boost to support healthcare staff recruitment and retention in 3 African countries – Kenya, Nigeria and Ghana – […]
Two districts in northern Mozambique declare cholera outbreak
Mozambican health authorities have declared an outbreak of cholera in two more districts, Mocímboa da Praia and Mueda, Cabo Delgado province, a disease that has […]
WHO wants to ensure universal access to health in São Tomé and Príncipe by 2027
The World Health Organization on Tuesday July 18 handed over to the São Toméan Government the new strategy, valued at €9 million, to improve quality […]
Mozambique: Explosion of cholera cases after Cyclone Freddy
Cholera cases in Mozambique have increased tenfold since February, with more than 28,000 people infected in the southern African country still reeling from the passage […]
Equatorial Guinea: 10 deaths from the Marburg virus according to a new report
The new provisional toll of the Marburg virus disease epidemic that has been raging for more than two months in Equatorial Guinea stands at 10 […]
Mozambique will vaccinate hundreds of thousands of people against cholera
The Mozambican government and the World Health Organization (WHO) started, end of last week, the deployment of rehydration and cholera vaccination posts in the districts […]
Pascoal Mocumbi, former Prime Minister of Mozambique, has died
Pascoal Mocumbi, former Prime minister of Mozambique, died in Maputo. He was 81 years old. A statement of the Council of Ministers said that Mocumbi […]
Marburg virus kills five people in Tanzania
A mysterious disease that killed five people in Tanzania has been identified as coming from the Marburg virus, a cousin of Ebola that also causes […]