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Only Ghana has eliminated trachoma in Africa
Even though the number of people at risk of trachoma which is the world’s leading infectious cause of blindness, has reduced by 91% from 1.5 billion in 2002 to just ...
One month to go until the 2nd Edition Africa Healthcare Extension Summit
Africa Vision 2030, General Country Health Policies, Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in the Sustainable Development Goals and Innovations & Changes in Cancer Therapy are just some of the key issues ...
Every year, Africa loses $2.4 trillion to diseases
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that nearly 630 million years of healthy life were lost in 2015 due to the diseases afflicting the population across its 47 Member States ...
Antibiotic resistance threatens universal health coverage in Africa
Biomerieux staff at their innovation marketplace stand, AHAIC2019 conference What if we run out of antibiotics to treat people who have multi-drug resistant infections? Would we be able to achieve ...
Children bear the brunt of Africa’s burgeoning refugee crisis
Abdullateef was only 7 years old when his village was bombed and evacuated in 2015, now he is 11 and has been in 3 countries and even though they are ...
This HIV drug is increasing behavioral disorders in African children
A new research concluded that treatment of HIV-positive children with efavirenz, a popular HIV drug, is associated with a mild increase in neuropsychiatric symptoms. According to the study which was conducted ...
Starting gene editing dialogue in Africa
On November 29, one of Nigeria's highly popular on-air personalities, Tosyn Bucknor, was buried in Lagos following her death resulting from complication of sickle cell disease crisis. Babies of parents ...
World AIDS Day: 90% of children living with HIV are in Africa
In the world today, 3 million children and adolescents were living with HIV in 2017 out of which nearly 9 in ten live in sub-Saharan Africa. South Africa and Nigeria ...
WHO launches innovation challenge for unmet health needs in Africa
The first WHO Africa Innovation Challenge is calling for health innovations that could have significant social impact and that address the unmet health needs in Africa. Dr Matshidiso Moeti, WHO ...
