#aljazeera.com. #Jan.25.2025 Dozens killed in drone attack on Darfur hospital. Attacks on hospitals rampant in besieged el-Fasher, where army-aligned militias are pushing back RSF fighters.
#Health × #Sudan #Africa ×
#aljazeera.com. #Jan.25.2025 US suspends new funds for aid programmes, excepting Israel and Egypt. Trump administration freezes new funding for anti-HIV programme and other health services, excepts key food programmes.
#Health × #Africa × #Asia #Egypt #Israel
#voanews.com. #Jan.22.2025 Trump’s WHO, climate orders bring challenges and opportunities for Africa, China. China has a long record of building hospitals in Africa and sending medical aid ships and doctors to the continent, but Washington’s withdraw could see even more demand for funding and support from Bei
#Health × #Weather #China #Africa × #USA #Asia #North America #Americas
#voanews.com. #Jan.22.2025 Namibia doctors fight cervical cancer. Doctors in Namibia are advocating greater access to healthcare and the HPV vaccine to reduce the prevalence of the disease
#Health × #Namibia #Africa × #USA #North America #Americas
#bbc.com. #Jan.20.2025 Ghana miners killed in Ashanti region after army opens fire in Obuasi. President John Mahama orders an investigation and asks AngloGold Ashanti to pay for medical and burial costs.
#Health × #Ghana #Africa ×
#voanews.com. #Jan.19.2025 What does does the future hold for Africa’s Generation Beta?. Experts say AI, better health and economic growth are all on the horizon
#Health × #Africa × #USA #North America #Americas
#voanews.com. #Jan.17.2025 Malawi takes steps to end cholera outbreaks by 2030. The disease has killed at least 1,700 people in Malawi over the past three years
#Health × #Malawi #cholera #Africa × #USA #North America #Americas
#voanews.com. #Jan.16.2025 WHO appeals for $1.5 billion to tackle 'unprecedented' global health crisis. The U.N. health agency estimates that health crises would leave 305 million people in need of urgent assistance in 2025
#Health × #Africa × #USA #North America #Americas
#aljazeera.com. #Jan.16.2025 ‘Very tough to breathe’: Teary Ons Jabeur struggles with asthma on court. Asthma attack leaves the Tunisian tennis player in tears as she battles her way through her second-round match.
#Health × #Sport #tennis player #Africa × #football #Australian continent #Australia #Insular Oceania #tennis #football player #Tunisia
#voanews.com. #Jan.15.2025 WHO says suspected outbreak of Marburg disease kills 8 in remote part of Tanzania. Like Ebola, the Marburg virus originates in fruit bats and spreads between people through close contact with the bodily fluids of infected individuals or with surfaces, such as contaminated bed sheets
#Health × #Africa × #USA #North America #Ebola hemorrhagic fever #Americas #Tanzania
#theguardian.com. #Jan.15.2025 Suspected outbreak of deadly Marburg virus disease kills eight in Tanzania. Healthcare workers among suspected cases of Ebola-like disease as WHO issues warning of high risk to the country and its neighbours
#Health × #Africa × #Ebola hemorrhagic fever #Tanzania
#bbc.com. #Jan.15.2025 WHO warns of suspected Marburg outbreak in Tanzania's Kagera region. The UN health agency says the risk of the virus spreading in the region is "high".
#Health × #Africa × #Tanzania
#aljazeera.com. #Jan.15.2025 WHO says 8 dead in suspected Marburg outbreak in Tanzania, warns of spread. Marburg virus can spread between people through direct contact or via blood and other bodily fluids of infected people.
#Health × #Africa × #Tanzania
#bbc.com. #Jan.14.2025 Sudan shelling kills more than 100 civilians near Khartoum. Rescuers say medical supplies are running low as health workers struggle to treat the victims.
#Health × #Sudan #Africa ×
#aljazeera.com. #Jan.14.2025 Miners in South Africa standoff call for help as health declines. Video filmed by South African miners involved in a months-long standoff with police shows dire conditions underground.
#Health × #Africa × #South Africa
#theguardian.com. #Jan.12.2025 ‘It’s an enormous emergency’: the doctor saving Sudan’s most vulnerable. MSF medical teams provide vital care in the war-torn country where pregnant women, new mothers and newborns are dying needlessly at alarming rates
#Health × #Sudan #Africa ×
#theguardian.com. #Jan.10.2025 Kenya court rules that criminalising attempted suicide is unconstitutional. The judgment has been welcomed as an important shift in perceptions by human rights and mental health groups
#Health × #Kenya #Africa ×
#theguardian.com. #Jan.06.2025 UK cut health aid to vulnerable nations while hiring their nurses, research finds. Royal College of Nursing says Labour has a duty to fix health ‘double whammy’ by raising aid and funding for UK nursing
#Health × #Politics #Africa ×
#theguardian.com. #Jan.05.2025 ‘A glimpse of hope’: how Observer readers are helping mend broken lives in war-torn lands. Médecins Sans Frontières workers have unique insight into the suffering of those they help, providing medical care in times of crisis
#Health × #Africa ×
#theguardian.com. #Jan.03.2025 Maurice King’s marvellous medical book saved lives in Botswana | Letter. Letter: Christine Evans read the doctor’s obituary and recalls how his work proved invaluable in her early career in the 1960s
#Education #Health × #Mauritius #Africa × #Botswana
#voanews.com. #Jan.03.2025 South Sudan begins mass inoculation campaign with cholera vaccines. The mass vaccination exercise faces numerous challenges, including a lack of access to the areas dealing with the worst cholera outbreaks
#Health × #Sudan #cholera #Africa × #South Sudan
#voanews.com. #Dec.31.2024 Jimmy Carter made eradicating Guinea worm disease his mission. There's no vaccine that prevents Guinea worm infections or medicine that gets rid of the parasites
#Health × #Politics #Guinea #Africa × #USA #North America
#nytimes.com. #Dec.30.2024 Jimmy Carter’s Quiet but Monumental Work in Global Health. In his decades as a former president, he and his wife, Rosalynn Carter, helped bring lifesaving treatments and sanitation to poor people around the world.
#Health × #Africa ×
#theguardian.com. #Dec.29.2024 More than 60 people dead after road accident in southern Ethiopia. Incident at Gelan bridge in Bona Zuria Woreda ???claimed lives of 66 people so far???, says Sidama health bureau
#Health × #Ethiopia #Africa ×
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