Fri 28 February 2025: The World Health Organization (WHO) chief announced on Thursday that the mpox upsurge continues and meets the criteria of a public health emergency of international concern as outlined in the International Health Regulations (IHR). The announcement came following the third meeting of the IHR Emergency Committee on the outbreak of mpox, […]
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Wed 26 February 2025: There’s been a global trend in the reduction of aid to Africa since 2018. Donors are shifting their funding priorities in response to domestic and international agendas. Germany, France and Norway, for instance, have all reduced their aid to Africa in the past five years. And, in 2020, the UK government reduced its Overseas Development Aid from […]
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Wed 26 February 2025: Health Minister, Dr Aaron Motsoaledi, has urged men to actively participate in the fight against HIV and AIDS. This as he kicked off a campaign aimed at enrolling 1.1 million individuals in HIV treatment by December 2025. Statistics show that 65% of those tested in a 2010 campaign were women, underscoring […]
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Tue 25 February 2025: Cancer death rates in the UK are 60% higher among people living in the most deprived areas compared to those in wealthier regions, according to a new analysis by Cancer Research UK on Friday. The charity’s findings reveal a stark inequality, with 28,400 extra cancer deaths annually linked to deprivation, equivalent […]
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Mon 24 February 2025: The World Health Organization released new findings on Friday about an “alarming” lack of awareness about alcohol’s link to cancer across Europe and called for clear and prominent tobacco-style warnings in the region with the world’s heaviest drinkers. The global health agency has repeatedly warned that alcohol causes cancer and has […]
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Sun 23 February 2025: A Chinese team discovered a new bat coronavirus that poses a risk of animal-to-human transmission as it uses the same human receptor as the COVID-19 virus, a Hong Kong daily reported on Thursday, citing the latest study. The study, conducted by the Guangzhou Laboratory in collaboration with the Guangzhou Academy of […]
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Fri 14 February 2025: Australian researchers have developed a new treatment for deadly childhood cancer using engineered immune cells. In a research published on Wednesday, researchers led by a team from the University of Queensland (UQ) developed a new therapeutic strategy for pediatric sarcomas. Sarcomas are cancers that develop in the bones and soft tissues, […]
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Mon 10 February 2025: Air pollution kills 100 children younger than age five every day in East Asia and the Pacific, UNICEF said in a new report on Thursday. Air pollution, the “silent killer,” reaches its highest levels in many areas of the region during the dry season, which lasts from now until April. It […]
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Fri 07 February 2025: US president Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the US from the World Health Organization is threatening funding for critical health programmes like HIV/Aids and tuberculosis in different parts of the world, including Nigeria. The Conversation Africa’s Adejuwon Soyinka asked professor of virology and former WHO Africa regional virologist Oyewale Tomori why Nigeria is heavily dependent on US […]
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Fri 07 February 2025: President Cyril Ramaphosa has expressed concern at the potential impact of the decision by the United States government to suspend some of its funding for HIV and Tuberculosis (TB) programmes in African countries for 90 days. “This funding accounts for about 17% of our country’s HIV spend. We have been able […]
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