The health system in Rwanda is used as a best-case scenario by many health experts. It is also famed for its success in implementing the community health insurance program which has improved access to quality health for citizens.With more...
Doctors in Zimbabwe have claimed they have resorted to using condoms when performing examinations due to the shortage of gloves as the ongoing strike by junior General Practitioners enters its third week.
Members of the Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association (ZHDA)...
Nigeria will overtake India in 2021 as the country with the most under-five deaths in the world. this is according to the latest bi-annual economic report of the World Bank’s Bretton Woods Institution.The report predicts that just like Nigeria...
World AIDS Day, designated on 1 December every year since 1988, is an international day dedicated to raising awareness of the AIDS pandemic caused by the spread of HIV infection and mourning those who have died of the disease....
Africa is often marketed to the world as the black nation, where everyone is proud of their race, skin and heritage. But for some black Africans there is such a thing as being too black.Skin lightening is popular in...
Rwandan President Paul Kagame has weighed in on the debate around bleaching tasking relevant state authorities to step in and take necessary measures.
https://twitter.com/PaulKagame/status/1066706402817818624?p=v
He was responding to a citizen’s tweet calling for authorities to put together a campaign against skin...
Death occurrence in the African continent is mainly due to diseases such as HIV/AIDS, malaria, and respiratory infections. The number of lives claimed by illnesses over the last couple of years has been over a million deaths annually..
Death occurrence...
Thousands of people in Africa die needlessly each year because of fake and counterfeit medication.
It is a worrying trend released in an EU- funded report on Tuesday.
The vulnerable in Africa suffer the most.
“ The problem is also the access...
African countries have been sites for clinical trials by large pharmaceutical companies, raising human rights concerns. Incidents of unethical experimentation, clinical trials lacking properly, informed consent, and forced medical procedures have been claimed and prosecuted.
African countries have been sites...
A scourge that Africa's leadership inflicts on their people is presiding over derelict and ailing health systems, while they get treatment at top hospital in European, American and Asian lands. African hospitals are not built for African presidents.
One of...
