#theguardian.com. #Nov.15.2025 Ethiopia confirms outbreak of deadly Marburg virus. Africa CDC says at least nine cases have been detected of Ebola-like illness, which kills up to 80% of those infected
#Health × #Ethiopia #Africa × #Ebola hemorrhagic fever
#theguardian.com. #Nov.15.2025 UK warned that 15% cut to health fund will force ‘impossible choices’ on Africa. Advocates fear that other donors will follow Britain’s reduction to the Global Fund for Aids, TB and malaria
#Health × #United Kingdom #Africa × #Europe
#aljazeera.com. #Nov.15.2025 Jailed Tunisian opposition figure hospitalised amid hunger strike: Family. Jawhar Ben Mbarek's sister said his health had 'severely deteriorated' and a 'dangerous toxin' was detected in his body.
#Health × #Africa × #Tunisia
#washingtonpost.com. #Nov.14.2025 Ethiopia reports first outbreak of Marburg, Ebola cousin with no vaccine. At least nine cases of the rare viral hemorrhagic fever have been confirmed, the World Health Organization said Friday.
#Health × #Ethiopia #Africa × #Ebola hemorrhagic fever #World Health Organization
#aljazeera.com. #Nov.14.2025 Ethiopia confirms first outbreak of Marburg virus. Nine cases reported in Ethiopia's Omo region, bordering conflict-wracked South Sudan, which has a fragile health system.
#Health × #Sudan #Ethiopia #Africa × #South Sudan
#aljazeera.com. #Nov.13.2025 Medical experts say Africa faces worst cholera outbreak in 25 years. Africa CDC recorded about 300,000 confirmed and suspected cases of cholera so far in 2025, a rise over last year.
#Health × #cholera #Africa ×
#theguardian.com. #Nov.13.2025 ‘Utter hypocrisy’: tobacco firm lobbied against rules in Africa that are law in UK. British American Tobacco pushed Zambian ministers to drop or delay ad bans, health warnings and restrictions on flavoured products, letter shows
#Health × #United Kingdom #Africa × #USA #Europe #North America #Americas #Zambia
#theguardian.com. #Nov.12.2025 French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal pardoned and to be released from prison. Eighty-one year-old, who has prostate cancer, can now be transferred from Algeria to Germany for medical treatment
#Health × #France #Africa × #Germany #Algeria #Europe
#theguardian.com. #Nov.10.2025 Waiting for the all-clear: how medics and villagers rallied when Ebola returned to DRC. If no new cases are reported in Bulape by early December, the country will have vanquished its 16th outbreak of the deadly virus since it was discovered there in 1976
#Health × #Africa × #Ebola hemorrhagic fever #Americas #Republic of the Congo #Democratic Republic of the Congo
#bbc.com. #Mar.29.2025 Guinea ex-ruler Moussa Dadis Camara pardoned over stadium massacre. Moussa Dadis Camara, pardoned on health grounds, was less than a year into a 20-year sentence.
#Health × #Guinea #Africa ×
#bbc.com. #Mar.27.2025 Gavi warns that one million children could die if US cuts funding for vaccines. The US is reported to be planning to cut funding to Gavi, which pays for childhood vaccines.
#Health × #Politics #Africa × #USA #North America
#theguardian.com. #Mar.26.2025 ‘The field of human ancestry is rife with racism’: pioneering project to build cancer database in Africa. Less than 2% of human genomes analysed so far have been those of Africans. Yemaachi Biotech’s Africa Cancer Atlas aims to fill the research gap
#Health × #Africa ×
#economist.com. #Mar.24.2025 A faster rollout of malaria vaccines would save many lives. But someone needs to pay for it—and aid budgets are being slashed
#Business #Health × #Politics #Africa ×
#washingtonpost.com. #Mar.21.2025 Arab mediators rush to salvage Gaza ceasefire as Israel restarts war. Egypt and Qatar are pushing for an emergency truce, as the Palestinian death toll from renewed Israeli strikes soared past 500 according to health officials.
#Health × #Africa × #Palestine #Asia #Egypt #Israel #Qatar
#aljazeera.com. #Mar.19.2025 ‘I nearly died’: Taba, the tobacco drug Gambian women share in secret. Though not illegal, doctors and activists warn about the dangers of the intravaginal use of the popular drug.
#Health × #The Gambia #Africa ×
#bbc.com. #Mar.18.2025 US aid freeze: Nigeria and Kenya among nations running out of HIV drugs - WHO. The warning comes as Africa begins to feel the impact of a massive review into US aid by Trump.
#Health × #Politics #Nigeria #Kenya #Africa × #USA #North America
#theguardian.com. #Mar.18.2025 ‘It’s back to drug rationing’: the end of HIV was in sight. Then came the cuts. The abrupt halt to US funding threatens to undo decades of advances, dramatically increasing infections and deaths, but some see an opportunity for Africa to lead the response
#Health × #Africa × #USA #North America
#voanews.com. #Mar.14.2025 Africa faces diabetes crisis, study finds. Researchers say poor eating habits, lack of health care access, obesity and physical inactivity are key drivers of diabetes in Africa
#Health × #Africa × #USA #North America #Americas
#aljazeera.com. #Mar.14.2025 MSF warns of ‘rapidly spreading’ outbreak as cholera kills 31 in Ethiopia. The charity says the situation has worsened with the arrival of refugees from South Sudan, where thousands are infected.
#Health × #Sudan #Ethiopia #cholera #Africa × #South Sudan
#aljazeera.com. #Mar.11.2025 Most of the world’s population is breathing dirty air: Report. IQAir study finds that Chad, Bangladesh, Pakistan, India and the Democratic Republic of Congo have the dirtiest air.
#Health × #Africa × #Asia #Chad #India #Pakistan #Bangladesh #Republic of the Congo #Democratic Republic of the Congo
#bbc.com. #Mar.08.2025 Nigeria leprosy: Vital drugs due in the country after year's delay. Newly diagnosed patients may have suffered irreversible damage as a result of not having the drugs.
#Health × #Nigeria #Africa × #leprosy
#voanews.com. #Mar.08.2025 Cholera killed nearly 100 in Sudan over 2 weeks, aid group says. Waterborne disease outbreak began in Sudan's White Nile State
#Health × #Sudan #cholera #Africa × #USA #North America #Americas
#theguardian.com. #Mar.07.2025 Trump’s attacks on South Africa are a punishment for independence | Achille Mbembe and Ruth Wilson Gilmore. The US president’s cuts to health funding could lead to half a million deaths. They’re part of a strategy to condemn and isolate the country
#Health × #Politics #Africa × #South Africa #USA #North America
#theguardian.com. #Mar.06.2025 Nearly half of women in Africa will be obese or overweight by 2030 – study. Stigma, lack of treatment and disproportionate rise of the disease in women draws comparisons with HIV epidemic
#Health × #Africa ×
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