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 …
Kenya will not be certified polio-free this year as planned as live viruses have been found in sewage samples collected from Nairobi. The Ministry of Health was notified by Kenya Medical Research Institute (Kemri) of isolation of polio virus type 2 from an environmental sample collected on March 21 from …
Nigeria is set to adopt African standards on Sugar and sugar products as well as develop Nigeria Industrial standards for Glucose and Sucrose. Towards this end, a technical committee (TC) meeting on sugar and sugar products held at the Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) Operational Headquarters, Lekki, Lagos, recently to …
The government is on a high alert after experts from the Kenya Medical Research Institute (Kemri) and Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported finding traces of a vaccine-derived polio virus in environmental samples from Eastleigh, Nairobi. In a statement to county directors of health, the Director of Medical …
Global warming is screwing up nature’s intricately timed dinner hour, often making hungry critters and those on the menu show up at much different times, a new study shows. Timing is everything in nature. Bees have to be around and flowers have to bloom at the same time for pollination …
We present a range-wide assessment of sympatric western lowland gorillas Gorilla gorilla gorilla and central chimpanzees Pan troglodytes troglodytes using the largest survey data set ever assembled for these taxa: 59 sites in five countries surveyed between 2003 and 2013, totaling 61,000 person-days of fieldwork. We used spatial modeling to …
The Malaria Summit, London, saw 14 Heads of State and Government, Bill Gates, scientists and private sector and international organisations making significant commitments that will catalyse progress towards beating malaria at a time when efforts to end the preventable disease have stalled. High level political commitments to beat malaria were …
The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) on Wednesday said two of the three confirmed cases of Lassa fever died within three months in the territory. Humphrey Okoroukwu, the Director of Public Health in Health and Human Services Secretariat in FCT, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of …
Speaking to ANGOP, the source said that, compared to the previous period, there were more than 100 deaths, and said that the province's health authorities continue to work to reduce malaria deaths, calling on the population's sensitivity to collaborate in the cleaning of the neighborhoods and the puddles, to avoid …
Kenya plans to progressively increase domestic funding for combating malaria in order to eradicate malaria by 2030, an official said on Monday. Erjesa Waqo, Head of the National Malaria Control Programme (NMCP) at the Ministry of Health, told a media briefing in Nairobi that currently government financing constitutes only about …
THE health ministry yesterday declared Congo fever an outbreak after the death of a Keetmanshoop man at the Windhoek Central Hospital on Tuesday, and the hospitalisation of two others. Health minister Bernard Haufiku confirmed the death of 37-year-old Hendrik Hartebees yesterday. He said the case registered on Tuesday could be …
Abuja — Nigeria loses an estimated N300 billion annually to treatment and prevention, including loss of man-hours annually to malaria, the National Malaria Eradication Programme (NMEP) has stated. It said Artemisinin-based Cobination Therapy (ACTs) remains the recommended medicine for malaria as stated by the World Health Organisation, as the use …
A mystery fever is striking down people - mainly children - in the port city of Quelimane, Mozambique. Health authorities are struggling to identify the malaria-like illness, which includes high fever, joint pain and headaches. Dulce Santana told reporters it was not the first time she had brought her two-year-old …
The Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur exhorted the members of the state Assembly to come forward to spread awareness on HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis, so as to eradicate these diseases from the society. He emphasised the need for removing the social stigma attached with these disease, while addressing a workshop on …
“Why would you buy health insurance while you are young and healthy?” “Get health insurance to save tax” “Aren’t you already covered by your employer?” Different people have different opinions on health insurance. And unless you are part of the minority of people that has insured their health adequately, it’s …
A strange disease has reportedly killed at least eight persons in Dungurawa village in Dawakin-Tofa local council of Kano State. This is coming as no fewer than 21 persons have died from Tuberculosis in the state. Victims of the strange killer disease include five children and three adults, ranging between …
Nearly 90% of the 456 612 deaths that occurred in 2016 can be attributed to natural causes, while the total shows a major decrease in the peak yearly deaths since 2006. Statistics South Africa released its report, Mortality and causes of death in South Africa, 2016: Findings from death notification, …
Confocal laser endomicroscopy (pCLE) provides real-time histologic imaging of human tissues at a depth of 60–70 μm during endoscopy. pCLE of the extrahepatic bile duct after fluorescein injection demonstrated a reticular pattern within fluorescein-filled sinuses that had no known anatomical correlate. Freezing biopsy tissue before fixation preserved the anatomy of …
The government is on high alert following reports that a deadly outbreak linked to tainted food in South Africa is now threatening other African nations. Tanzania has been mentioned in the report issued by the World Health Organisation (WHO), early this week, as being among 16 African nations whose populations …
South Sudan has gone 15 months without a single reported case of Guinea worm disease, the nation's health minister said on Wednesday, suggesting a major victory for global health officials trying to eliminate the debilitating affliction. Also, the Carter Centre said only 30 cases were reported last year in isolated …
Katsina — An outbreak of strange disease at Government Science Secondary School,Kurfi has killed about 8 students. Our reporter gathered that authorities of the boarding school have since over the weekend closed down the school and sent students back home. The closure however did not go down well with the …
