Accra News
The three major cemeteries in central Accra - Awudome, La and Osu - are full, according to Simpson Anim Boateng, the metro health director of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA).
Boateng said tha...
Dar Es Salaam News
Expansion of Aga Khan Hospital in Dar es Salaam
The Aga Khan Hospital in Dar es Salaam has embarked on a major expansion programme to offer high-quality medical care and increase its capacity as a teaching institute within the Aga Khan Development...
Dar Es Salaam News
Dar es Salaam hosts charity marathon
The Dar es Salaam branch of Rotary International is holding the 2012 Marathon & Charity Walk on 14 October as part of its fundraising campaign to help local children fight cancer.
A similar eve...
Lagos News
Lagos targets world record for brushing teeth
The Lagos state government is planning to set a new world record by organising 300,000 students to brush their teeth simultaneously on the occasion of the 2012 World Oral Heath Day on 5 December.
T...
Lagos News
Lagos shuts down 15 medical clinics
The Lagos state government has closed 15 illegal clinics and hospitals across the state, in line with its 2006 health sector reform laws.
The state’s Health Facility Monitoring and Accreditat...
Cape Town News
Cape Town scientists make malaria breakthrough
Researchers at the University of Cape (UCT) have made a major breakthrough in the battle against malaria, after discovering a compound with the potential to cure the disease in a single dose.
Scien...
Accra News
Mosquito nets distributed in Accra
Insecticide-treated mosquito nets are being distributed door-to-door in Accra by the Greater Accra Regional Health Directorate as part of the Better Ghana Agenda to battle malaria.
The Long Lasting...
Accra News
Ghanaian parliament bans smoking in public places
The parliament in Ghana has introduced legislation banning smoking in public places, with the new law awaiting final approval from the country’s president John Atta-Mills. The legislation follo...
Arusha News
Arusha to host major diabetes congress
Arusha is hosting an international summit aimed at addressing ways of improving life for people living with diabetes and other non-communicable diseases (NCDs), from 25-28 July.
The inaugural Afric...
Lagos News
Striking doctors dismissed in Lagos
The Lagos state government has fired 788 doctors who have been on strike since 16 April.
The doctors began their strike – backed by Nigeria’s Medical Guild - over the alleged failure of...
Accra News
Ghana makes history with immunisation programme
Ghana has become the first African country to launch a double vaccination programme against rotavirus and pneumococcal diseases, two of the country’s principal infant killer diseases. Rotavirus...
Accra News
Health authorities have begun fumigating the Odorna sub-metropolitan area about 90 kms to the north of Accra in an attempt to curtail a recent outbreak of cholera. The authorities are due to extend t...
Dar Es Salaam News
Ultra-modern private hospital for Dar es Salaam
The Muhimbili National Hospital (MNH) in Dar es Salaam is to build an eight-storey first class hospital for specialist private treatment, according to the country's health minister Hadji Mponda.
Th...
Lagos News
Widespread lead poisoning in northern Nigeria
Gold mining practices in the northern Nigerian state of Zamfara have resulted in the deaths of 400 children from lead poisoning over the past two years, according to an international human rights grou...
Nairobi News
Counterfeit medicine circulating in Kenya
Kenya's government is acting to remove thousands of counterfeit antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) from circulation across the country. The existence of the fake medicine first came to light in September whe...
Dar Es Salaam News
Anti-malaria campaign in Dar es Salaam
Dar es Salaam residents have been asked to register for free insecticide-treated mosquito bed nets from 12 August to September as part of a government anti-malaria campaign.
Those who registered w...
Maputo News
The number of new cases of tuberculosis in Mozambique increased from 38,044 in 2007 to 46,174 in 2010 according to figures reported by the minister of health on World Tuberculosis day on 24 March....
Nairobi News
Nairobi host HIV/AIDS research conferences
The incidence of HIV/AIDS in Kenya dropped from 7.1 per cent of the population in 2007 to 6.3 per cent in 2009 according to figures released at an international conference on HIV/AIDS in Nairobi in mi...
Accra News
According to reports from news agency Reuters, 60 people in Ghana have died as a result of cholera, with 4,000 others hospitalised nationwide in what Ghana's health services are describing as an epide...
