06-Oct-2022 to 13:38

APA-Banjul (The Gambia) — The death of 66 infants in The Gambia has prompted an investigation by the World Health Organisation of four kinds of India-originated syrups blamed for the fatalities, APA can report on Thursday.

05-Oct-2022 to 13:56

APA-Harare (Zimbabwe) — Zimbabwe has stepped up a wild poliovirus type 1 surveillance and vaccination campaign in the wake of recent outbreaks of the disease in Malawi and Mozambique, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Wednesday.

05-Oct-2022 to 08:52

APA-Lilongwe (Malawi) — The number of deaths from Malawi’s cholera outbreak has risen to 110, with Health Minister Khumbize Chiponda announcing on Tuesday that the disease has so far affected 3,891 people since March.

29-Sep-2022 to 21:24

APA - Kigali (Rwanda) — The East African Community Secretariat on Thursday urged EAC Partner States to enhance emergency preparedness and response activities following an outbreak of Ebola Viral Disease (EVD) in Uganda.

28-Sep-2022 to 11:56

APA - Kigali (Rwanda) — Rwanda on Wednesday announced some emergency measures for stopping the virus Ebola from spreading across Uganda’s border.

27-Sep-2022 to 09:24

APA-Pretoria (South Africa) — South Africa’s Health Minister Joe Phaahla is discussing with troubled power utility Eskom and other government departments to find ways of exempting health facilities from the current loadshedding, the ministry said on Tuesday.

27-Sep-2022 to 08:52

APA-Blantyre (Malawi) — The death toll from the cholera outbreak in Malawi has risen by 69 percent over the past month, with official figures showing that the number of fatalities rose from 58 to 98 between August 25 and September 26.