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  • New Ebola cases confirmed in Guinea as WHO warns of more possible flare ups

    GUINEA, 2016/03/21 WHO has dispatched a team of specialists to the southern prefecture of Nzérékoré next 2 new cases of Ebola were detected and confirmed in a rural village. Guinean health officials in the region alerted WHO and partners on 16 March to 3 unexplained deaths in recent weeks in the village of Koropara and said other members of the same family are currently showing symptoms characteristic of Ebola.

  • Uganda: Swine Fever Breaks Out in Kampala

    UGANDA, 2016/01/18 An outbreak of African swine fever, a viral disease that affects pigs has broken out in Kampala, according to Kampala Capital City Authority. The outbreak has been reported in Lungujja parish located in Rubaga Division, in Kampala. According to Dr Emilian Ahimbisibwe, who is in charge of veterinary services at KCCA, a quarantine for pigs and their products has been enforced in the affected area of Lungujja parish and its neighbouring parishes, particularly Busega and Lubya parishes.

  • Lessons learnt from Ebola

    GUINEA, 2016/01/15 It's been 42 days since Liberia's last Ebola patient tested negative. That means an end to the current Ebola crisis, at least for presently. The epidemic started in December 2013 and over 28,500 cases were recorded, with the epicenters in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone. This was the biggest Ebola outbreak to date. This is what Ebola experts inclunding residents of three nations identified as the lessons learnt. The World Health Organization (WHO) has finally declared all of West Africa Ebola free. The two-year-long outbreak left 11,300 people dead and many children orphaned. So, did we learn something from it?

  • NIGERIA Senate orders review of universities admissions policy

    NIGERIA, 2016/01/12 Senate, the upper chamber of Nigeria’s legislative body, has directed the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board – JAMB – to extend the validity of university entrance exam results to three years, and to stop assigning students to institutions for which they have not applied. Senators believe that holding – in a well-secured data bank – the results of would-be students who write the exam but do not fasten a place, would allow tertiary institutions to shop around for strong students and reduce the costs for candidates who sit the exam year next year.

  • Guinea Declared Free Of Ebola Transmissions

    GUINEA, 2016/01/11 Guinea declared free of ebola transmission, Dakar, senegal—guinea has been declared free from transmission of ebola, the world health organization said tuesday, marking a milestone for the west african country where the original ebola chain of transmission began two years ago. the u.n.

  • Awareness campaign on to prevent Ebola resurgence in Liberia

    LIBERIA, 2016/01/10 The Liberia Crusaders for Peace (LCP) with support from the World Health Organization (WHO) and Healthy Life have embarked on an initiative to prevent the recurrence and relapse of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in the country.The project code named ˜Dead Body Swabbing Ebola Prevention Program’ is aimed at creating massive awareness in seven of Liberia’s 15 counties on the need to abstain from tampering with dead bodies until the County Health Team completes medical diagnosis and finally declares dead bodies free of the Ebola virus. A press statement issued here Saturday quotes the Administrator of LCP, Madam Yah Bryant, as saying that her organization has recruited and trained 350 field communicators, mobilizers, monitors and supervisors; pointing out that 50 were selected from each of the seven counties inclunding Lofa, Montserrado, Margibi, Grand Bassa, Bong, Nimba and Grand Cape Mount counties for the project.

  • Private equity firm discusses Ethiopia pharma investment

    ETHIOPIA, 2016/01/10 UK-based private equity firm 54 Capital today announced it has entered Ethiopia’s pharmaceutical market through an investment of US$42m into Addis Pharmaceutical Factory (APF). According to the firm, an initial investment of $30m, with the option to invest a further $12m, will be used to increase APF’s national and international reach. Why the firm (investment associate at 54 Capital) decided to invest in Ethiopia’s pharmaceutical industry.

  • People with malaria have been flooding to regional hospitals which are running low on resources to provide care

    SOUTH SUDAN, 2016/01/06 In a remote northwest corner of South Sudan, Theresa Ahok is in a hurry. The 35-year-old is from the village of Adiang and walked for an hour and a half before managing to flag down a truck to drive her and her sick son another hour to the hospital. "I'm racing", she says," and I'm worried I won't get to the hospital in time." Her son Bakita is two-and-a-half years old and has malaria. She gave him some anti-malarial medication at home but it didn't help. He then started convulsing and she knew it was time to make the journey into Aweil. The city of Aweil is a patchwork of red dirt roads leading to a bustling town centre that has been a pocket of peace in a conflict-ridden country for the past two years.

  • Chinese first lady attends anti-AIDS activity in South Africa

    CHINA, 2015/12/08 Peng Liyuan, wife of Chinese President Xi Jinping, attended an anti-AIDS advocacy activity here on Saturday, pledging to support Africa's medical and health programs. Peng was here accompanying President Xi for the Johannesburg Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation. China will consistently support the African nations in fighting AIDS, support the World Health Organization (WHO) and the UN Program on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS) on AIDS prevention and control in Africa, and support Africa's programs on medical infrastructure inclunding women's and children's healthcare, said Peng.

  • China to help Ebola-hit Guinea hone health care capacity

    CHINA, 2015/12/08 Chinese President Xi Jinping met here Thursday with Guinean President Alpha Conde and pledged to help the West African country once beset with an Ebola outbreak strengthen public health systems. Beijing is pleased to see that Guinea has beaten the Ebola virus, Xi said, recalling that at the same time as the crisis broke out last year, his country, out of its brotherly bond with Guinea, took the lead in providing assistance. China, he added, will continue to send medical teams to Guinea and support Conakry developing public health and epidemic prevention networks and promoting its capacity-building in this vital public-welfare area.
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