This document is the second in a series of global reports describing progress towards the 2030 targets set in Ending the neglect to attain the Sustainable Development Goals: a road map for neglected tropical diseases 2021–2030. It describes a wide range of activities, accomplishments and challenges across the portfolio of …
Fourteen deaths in four days. That's what the National Institute of Communicable Diseases’ latest listeriosis outbreak report reveals. A total of 81 people have died in South Africa from the disease‚ contracted from eating food contaminated with the food borne pathogen Listeria‚ according to the NICD. In early December‚ the …
Zambia says it has made progress in containing a cholera outbreak that has killed about 70 people in the southern African nation since October. Health Minister Chitalu Chilufya this week said there had been a "drastic reduction" in the number of new cases in the outbreak, which has mostly affected …
The death toll of victims of the Lassa fever outbreak in Ebonyi State has risen to four, an official has said. The Commissioner for Health, Daniel Umezuruike, also said 139 persons have been placed under surveillance in the state. PREMIUM TIMES had reported how three health workers died from the …
A seven month-long survey conducted by a gynecologist in various schools and colleges of Navi Mumbai to find out the risk factors associated with changing lifestyles showed that the main causes for lifestyle diseases are lack of physical activity and irregular food habits to name a few. Six hundred girls …
Health minister David Parirenyatwa brought the Bill for the First Reading, where he told legislators that the new Health law will, among other things provide for the conditions of improvement of the health sector and quality of life for Zimbabweans. “The Bill will provide for the rights, duties, powers and …
In South Africa the bacterial disease Listeriosis has left 60 people dead, with almost 750 additional cases confirmed, according to the United Nations. It’s thought to be the largest ever outbreak of the disease linked to food poisoning, the UN health agency said in a statement on Sunday. Nearly two-thirds …
Zambia has now decided to relax regulations it imposed to curb the spread of cholera. Schools and some markets will be allowed to re-open as newly reported cases have significantly decreased. READ: Zambia orders military to help with cholera fight Last month, President Edgar Lungu directed the military to clean …
‘Drought, increase in pests and infectious diseases will be the result’ Dr.Parveen Kumar, gastroenterologist and physician, who chairs the British Medical Association Board of Sciences said on Thursday that it was imperative to understand the deleterious effects of climate change on human health and also change the way the medical …
Dr Kabir Ibrahim, the Executive Secretary, Jigawa Primary Healthcare Development Agency (JSPHDA) said that the state has not recorded any new polio case in six years. Ibrahim made this known in an interview on Thursday. He said concerted efforts of the state government, traditional institution and other relevant stakeholders played …
Minna — The Niger State government is set to screen no fewer than one million cancer patients and treat 20 diagnosed cases annually for the next five years. This is the major plank of a N400 million tripartite Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed between the state government, Roche Products Limited …
The report Burden of Disease Attributable to Major Air Pollution Sources in India, provides the first comprehensive analysis of the levels of fine particulate matter air pollution (PM2.5) in India by source at the state level and their impact on health. It is the result of the Global Burden of …
HYDERABAD: A new health study across city schools revealed disturbing trends on various health disorders among schoolchildren in Hyderabad with 1 in 5 kids vulnerable to lifestyle and metabolic diseases in adulthood. At least 20% of 18,000 children surveyed are at risk. Assessment was based on their waist-height ratio, which …
In Johannesburg, tens of thousands of South Africans live at the foot of mountains of mining waste, a remnant of gold mining that has enriched the country, but now threatens the health of residents . “Look at the state of my spinach field, this yellow sand right there, it destroys …
On disease prevention and control, the bloc is addressing key strategic interventions in establishing a regional information exchange system for communicable and non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and a regional reference public health laboratory and strengthening national public health laboratories. The Head of Corporate Communications and Public Affairs, Mr Owora Othieno said …
Half of the sugar young children in England consume comes from unhealthy snacks and sweet drinks, figures show. On average, primary school children have at least three sugary snacks a day, Public Health England found. This means they can easily consume three times more sugar than the recommended maximum. PHE …
With 1,166 deaths, Nigerian govt formally declares meningitis outbreak over Meningitis: A killer disease Nigeria was not prepared for Nigeria Meningitis Outbreak: Death toll rises to 336 282 deaths: What Nigerian govt, affected states are doing about meningitis outbreak Meningitis: Nigerian govt’s failure to heed early warnings, produce vaccines locally …
Zambia’s President Edgar Lungu has dispatched the military to help fight a cholera outbreak, which has killed 41 people in the capital, Lusaka, and affected more than 1,500 others since September. In a Facebook post late on Friday, Lungu said “all three wings of the Defence Force” had been deployed …
This is an addendum to the WHO publication “The Public Health Impact of Chemicals: Knowns and Unknowns” (WHO, 2016) and presents an update of the main data tables and figures for the year 2016.
Fourteen weeks after the first suspected monkeypox case in the country, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, has reported the first death from the disease. The agency also announced 61 confirmed cases. According to the situation report for monkeypox outbreak released by the health agency for the epidemiological week …
ZIMBABWE recorded nearly 200,000 new sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in the first eight months of this year, the ministry of health and child care has indicated. Over two million people were tested between January and August this year, ministry official Sinokuthemba Xaba revealed this Monday. He was speaking at a …
