HEALTH & LIFESTYLE

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has reported a significant decline in cholera cases across the country but warned that the outbreak remains active in parts of...

Penina Zawadi should have been celebrating the birth of her son. Instead, her family was left mourning her death after severe bleeding during childbirth exposed serious weaknesses in access to...

Every day, Gédéon Banga Ngbape leads his contact-tracing team across communities in Nizi, in eastern Congo's Ituri Province, searching for anyone who may have come into contact with the country's...

Professor Christopher Imumolen, the National Chairman of a faction of the Accord party, declared the withdrawal of the party’s support for Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, ahead of the upcoming...

The Nigerian Association of Medical and Dental Academics (NAMDA) has given the Federal Government an additional three weeks to conclude negotiations on its outstanding demands, warning that failure to reach...

The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is rapidly worsening, with health officials highlighting a doubling of cases in some severely affected regions. On Wednesday, the Director-General of...

Uganda has announced the conclusion of its recent Ebola outbreak after passing 42 consecutive days without a new case, following the discharge of the last confirmed patient. This announcement represents...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has called on governments, health entities, and the public to stay alert as the West Nile virus spreads through parts of Europe during peak mosquito...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced that the combined death toll from Ebola outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Uganda has exceeded 1,000, underscoring the...