South Africa's National Health Council has announced a R1. 78 billion initiative to recruit 1 650 healthcare professionals, ...

With external health aid to Africa expected to plunge by 70% between 2021 and 2025, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has launched a continent-wide strategy to ...

Africa bears a disproportionate infectious disease burden, with HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria posing ongoing threats ...

Angola received 2,000 life-saving oral cholera vaccines for frontline healthcare workers from the Africa Centres for Disease ...

New data from the World Health Organization reveals that many governments’ public funding of health care falls short of what ...

When someone falls critically ill, hospitals are expected to provide life-saving care. But in many African countries, ...

African doctors say their patients are arriving with tears in their eyes, asking if they'll die from a lack of HIV medication ...

A meningitis outbreak is sweeping through Ghana’s Upper West region, exposing a struggling health care system. With ...

World Health Day, observed annually on 7 April, was commemorated at the national level in Asmara under the theme "Healthy ...

The amount of manufactured goods exported from Africa to the United States is minuscule. But for Lesotho, the impact of a ...

A new report by the United Nations Maternal Mortality Estimation Inter-Agency Group reveals that Pakistan is among four countries—alongside Nigeria, ...