The health of rural America is failing, and a repeal of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) without adequate replacement could prove disastrous. A December, 2016, report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed…
Previously, between August 2015 and 17 May 2016, WHO has been notified of 273 cases of Lassa fever, including 149 deaths in Nigeria. Of these, 165 cases and 89 deaths have been confirmed through laboratory…
Monrovia — The World Health Organization has expressed fear over the rapid increase of diabetes in Africa, emphasizing the need for a proper control mechanism to be put in place in curtailing the prevalence of…
The Liberia Diabetes Center has released a scaring statistics that threatens the country’s population. The center disclosed that three million Liberians are diabetics or pre-diabetics. Liberia has a population of over four million people. Pre-diabetes…
In the time it will take you to read this post, it is estimated that two children would have died in Nigeria. In many of these cases, poor access to adequate healthcare is the main…
GE has been committed to the development of sustainable solutions for some of Africa’s greatest healthcare challenges for nearly a century. With a long track record in developing innovations for emerging markets, GE recently launched…
NAIROBI — A wave of contractions forces Sharon Andisi to crouch by the dusty taxi rank outside a hospital. Although she is about to give birth, she has just been turned away from Kenya’s only…
LONDON — Mali has eliminated Guinea worm disease, bringing the world a step closer to eradicating the debilitating parasitic disease, the U.S.-based Carter Center said, citing provisional government figures. Guinea worm infections afflicted 3.5 million…
A prototype vaccine for Ebola has proven effective in Guinea, according to the World Health Organization. It hopes fast-track approval will emerge by 2018. The hemorrhagic virus killed 11,300 people in western Africa. WHO assistant…
A new survey indicates that one in every five adult Kenyan women have undergone a form of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). The Kenya Demographic and Health Indicator survey conducted by ActionAid Kenya also ranked Kenya…