Ghana is taking steps to strengthen its capacity to conduct and oversee high-quality clinical trials, following an assessment ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development (CJID) will today open a first-of-its-kind African media forum on road safety, aimed at kick-starting the ...

The World Health Organization (WHO), through the Pandemic Fund Project, has handed over ICT and media equipment valued at GHS 258,000 to the School of Public Health of the University of Ghana to ...

In just three months, the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo grew to become the country’s largest on ...

When 32-year-old Shafa’atu Isyaku noticed that her 4-year-old daughter, Maimuna, could not move her left leg, she took her to a primary health care centre in Kano State, north western Nigeria.“I was ...

For Dr Aminatu Makarfi Umar, a gynaecologist in Kaduna State, HIV prevention should be part of routine care for women who may benefit from it.“Every pregnant woman at increased risk of HIV deserves to ...

Haruna Darboe stood beside the weighing scale, watching closely as a health worker recorded his three-month-old daughter's ...

Ethiopia has achieved a major milestone in strengthening national health emergency preparedness and response following the successful World Health Organization (WHO) verification of its National ...

The WHO Representative to Ethiopia, the African Union (AU) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), ...

Addis Ababa - Five Portuguese-speaking African countries have developed national roadmaps to establish and strengthen emergency medical teams capable of rapid deployment during disease outbreaks, ...

"For a person living with diabetes, cancer, heart disease or a chronic respiratory condition, health care is rarely a single encounter," said Dr Mohamed Janabi, WHO Regional Director for Africa, ...

On-the-ground presence is the essence of an effective health emergency response. Equally vital is the ability to deploy ...