Zimbabwe tackles measles outbreak through intensive vaccination campaigns
When Baba Ruvheni heard health workers from his village talking about a measles outbreak in the country, he thought twice before getting his grandchild vaccinated.
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In Nigeria, boosting viral hepatitis awareness and treatment
Abuja – Four months before her wedding and on the eve of starting a new job, Dada Titilope went in for a routine medical check. It was then that the 36-year-old resident of Ile-Ife Osun State in Southwestern Nigeria disc…
Read moreMauritania’s new emergency response teams clear first hurdle
Nouakchott – In late August 2022 Mauritania’s health authorities received reports of several cases of miscarriage among camel herds in the southern Boutilimit Valley region. Within less than 24 hours, three emergency tea…
Read moreHow wastewater surveillance is helping the COVID-19 fight
Accra/Lusaka/Pretoria —Twice a week, a team of scientists from South Africa’s National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) traverses the country’s metropolitan areas, visiting up to 50 wastewater treatment sites t…
Read moreCurbing maternal mortality in Côte d'Ivoire
It is vaccination day, baby cries fill the courtyard of the Botro General Hospital, about 400 kilometres north of Abidjan. Henriette Ouattara, who gave birth a few months ago at the maternity hospital in Botro, has come to have her baby vaccinated.
Read moreReducing out-of-pocket health expenditure a panacea to universal health coverage
Abuja, 13 December, 2022 - “I recall growing up in a comfortable home and lacking nothing until my father fell ill in 2010. I was in secondary school when his sickness started. He was a farmer and businessman who s…
Read moreCommunity-based health insurance drives Ethiopia’s bid for universal health coverage
In late 2019, 68-year-old Meseret Belay, who lives in the Meshwalekiya neighbourhood of Ethiopia’s sprawling capital, Addis Ababa, suffered a severe stroke that left her unable to speak and paralysed on the left side of her body.
Read moreComoros on the path to ending mother-to-child HIV transmission
Nadja* was in the midst of planning her wedding two years ago when she learned that she was HIV-positive.
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