Africa

Telemedicine, online doctors in Botswana thanks to E-Consult: an entire medical consultation, from telling symptoms to prescribing a medicine and buying it, can be done online

COVID-19 in Malawi. After being relatively spared by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Malawi is now being swept by a new, fast-spreading wave of the disease that is quickly overwhelming the healthcare system.

Rapid Antigen Tests for COVID-19 Response. The Africa Union Commission, through the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) and partners, has released a new Guidance on the Use of Rapid Antigen Tests for COVID-19…

Nigeria in the throes of a yellow fever epidemic. In early November 2020, positive samples for yellow fever were reported from five Nigerian states.

Pregnancy-related risks in Nigeria: it is bothersome to know that every Nigerian woman has a 1-in-22 lifetime risk of dying during pregnancy, child-birth, or after delivery. And also that the World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared…

Ethiopia, Red Cross sends medicines. A convoy carrying medicines and relief supplies from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Ethiopian Red Cross Society (ERCS), organized in coordination with the Ethiopian…

Vaccination against polio in Chad. More than 3.3 million children have been vaccinated against polio in Chad in a just-concluded immunization drive – one of the largest of its kind in the African region this year as campaigns that were…

Chegutu, Zimbabwe – Thanks to Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, 54 407 people in Chegutu received free cholera vaccination. The five-day oral cholera vaccination campaign was conducted by the Ministry of Health and Child Care (MoHCC) and Chegutu…

Nursing is one of the most noble professions in Nigeria, with myriads of amazing  prospects for nurses in clinical practice, education, research, entrepreneurship, and administration.

COVID-19 in South Africa: an investigation by the Daily Maverick has found that the ICU field hospital project in Gauteng, which has still not yielded a single new bed months after the Covid-19 wave has passed Gauteng, will cost close to…