Zambian health minister, Elijah Muchima said 104,585 people have received doses of the oral cholera vaccine in Chililabombwe, Zambia’s hardest-hit district in Copperbelt Province in the latest cholera outbreak. Muchima said the number represents 81 per cent of the targeted population of 129,837. According to the minister, the vaccination campaign, which started last Friday, was…
The World Health Organisation (WHO) and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital have launched the distribution of essential childhood cancer medicines in two of the six pilot countries under the Global Platform for Access to Childhood Cancer Medicines. In a statement on Tuesday, the WHO revealed that medicines are currently being delivered to Mongolia and Uzbekistan,…
Ugandan health ministry on Tuesday announced that the number of confirmed Ebola cases in Uganda has risen to nine from three. The East African country declared an outbreak of the severe, often fatal viral infection in January. The latest outbreak is being driven by the Sudan strain of the virus, for which there is no…
Humanitarian packages from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) were found among weapons belonging to Lebanese movement Hezbollah The New York Post newspaper reported on Monday, citing a former Israel Defence Forces (IDF) soldier. The soldier said that he found sniper rifles, anti-tank missiles and explosives next to packages labeled USAID while patrolling a…
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has expressed concern over the increasing number of polio cases in Kano State. UNICEF’s Kano Chief of Field Office, Mr Rahma Farah, raised the alarm during an orientation for 44 Local Government Area (LGA) chairmen and district heads on polio eradication, routine immunisation, and primary healthcare (PHC) services. Farah…
Dr Sam Adegboye, a Physician, has debunked the claim that frequent sexual activity reduces the risk of prostate cancer in men. Adegboye is the Assistant Chief Medical Officer and General Practitioner at the Federal Teaching Hospital, Ido-Ekiti. He debunked the claim in a telephone interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in…
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has reported a decline in confirmed Lassa fever cases for the fourth epidemiological week of 2025,l. The centre, however reported that the death toll from Lassa fever continued to climb, reaching 53 fatalities nationwide. In its latest situation report via its official website, NCDC said that…
As Nigerians join in marking World Toothache Day on Sunday, dentists have called for the implementation of an oral health policy for the oral wellbeing of Nigerians. The dentists made the call in Ibadan while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in separate interviews. A consultant Family Dentist, Dr Clara Akinyamoju, remarked that…
Uganda’s Ministry of Health on Wednesday, said the country “is safe for tourism and trade” in the face of an Ebola outbreak. Minister of Health Jane Ruth Aceng said this at a news conference on Wednesday in the eastern Ugandan city of Mbale. She said the outbreak is confined to well-defined areas in Kampala, the…
Argentina will leave the World Health Organisation (WHO) due to the mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic, a spokesman for right-wing populist President Javier Milei said on Wednesday. The decision comes two weeks after President Donald Trump made the announced on the first day of his second term,that the U.S would leave the UN health body….
