Health

The Woman Selling Peeing Cup to Kenyan Women to Prevent Infections

A Kenyan woman has come up with an innovative solution to enable Kenyan women pee while standing, consequently preventing them from sitting on infected public toilet bowls. Njeri Muthaka sells peeing cups that help women urinate while standing, consequently preventing...

WHO Lists Nigeria, Ghana, 11 Others As Top-risk African Nations for Coronavirus

The World Health Organisation has identified 13 high- risk African countries for coronavirus. They are Algeria, Angola, Ivory Coast , DR Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mauritius , Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. A statement from WHO said the identified...

Africa’s Most Stressed-Out Cities 2020: These African Cities have the Most Stressed Workers

The most stressed out city in Africa is in fact Johannesburg, this is according to Savvy Sleeper, a sleep research site that conducts studies to determine the world’s cities with the highest and lowest levels of workplace burnout. A total...

Human Hair, Empty Shampoo Packets Removed from girl’s Stomach

Doctors in India’s Tamil Nadu has removed more than half kg of human hair and an empty shampoo packets from the stomach of a girl. The 13-year-old girl had complained of stomach pain for the last few months after which,...

The Top 4 “Diseases of Poverty” in Sub-Saharan Africa

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the majority of diseases in low-income countries are caused by poverty. These diseases are known as “diseases of poverty.” Diseases of poverty affect more than 1 billion people worldwide and are completely preventable....

African Countries with the Best Health Care (2024)

South Africa has the best health care in Africa, according to research from independent survey centre Numbeo. The website boasts "the biggest database of user contributed data about cities," according to Adamovic's LinkedIn page. The local data is combined in a...

All You Need to Know About Lassa Fever, Symptoms, Transmission & Prevention

The Lassa virus gets transmitted to humans when they come in contact with the urine or droppings of an infected rat. This can happen by touching soiled objects or consuming contaminated food. The Kano State government has confirmed the outbreak...

Meet John Amanam: The Nigerian Sculptor Making Dark Skin Prosthetics to Boost Patients Confidence

"We have prosthetics made of white skin. You rarely find people with black skin prosthetics, so I want the blacks. I want Africa to have a feel, to be closer to have this need solved within Africa." John Amanam is...

This Firm Keeps Frozen Human Brains, With the Hope of Reviving Them ‘One Day’

People pay thousands of dollars to this Russian firm to store their brain when they die.. in the hope breakthroughs in science will one day be able to bring them back to life. When Alexei Voronenkov’s 70-year-old mother passed away,...

78 Nigerian Doctors Successfully Separate One-year-old Conjoined Twins

A team comprising of 78 medics in Nigeria has successfully separated one-year-old conjoined twins. The sisters – Goodness and Mercy Martins – are now well enough to return home. The team consisting of pharmacists, perioperative, anaesthetics dermatologists, paediatricians, plastic surgeons,...
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Lucy Terry: The Author of the Oldest Known Work of Literature by an African American

Terry was a gifted storyteller, orator, and poet, renowned for being the author of “Bars Fight” (1746), the oldest...
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