In 2016, the WHO set an ambitious target to eliminate viral hepatitis by 2030...
Pauline Bakibinga 3 days ago
The government of The Gambia recently announced that the country had eliminated trachoma...
Musa Mutali 7 Jun 2021
West Africa's Ebola outbreak between 2013 and 2016 was the most widespread in the history of the disease. By the end of the outbreak, more than 28,000 people were infected and 11,000 succumbed to the disease...
Peter B James, Abdulai Jawo Ba, Amie Steel, Jon Adams & Jon Wardle 28 May 2021
In a time when the world is focusing on Covid-19 vaccines, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has highlighted the importance of routine immunisations for diseases such as measles, tetanus and polio...
Jean-Francois Maystadt, Kalle Hirvonen & Nik Stoop 21 May 2021
Some diseases are more likely to enter public conversation than others. Covid-19 has dominated the public discourse in 2020...
Michael Head 22 Apr 2021
News of a new outbreak of Ebola in Guinea is indeed distressing...
Mosoka Fallah 19 Feb 2021
CONAKRY - The World Health Organisation (WHO) has asked six African countries to be alert for possible Ebola infections...
Saliou Samb 18 Feb 2021
What a year 2020 has been! So, we've curated the year's most popular articles, most-read contributors and brand press offices with the most views on Bizcommunity's Healthcare platform into our #BestofBiz2020 list
In 2005, before most low- and middle-income countries started vaccinating children routinely for pneumococcal disease, it caused approximately 1.5 million deaths worldwide annually...
Jeffrey Dorfman 29 Sep 2020
Bizcommunity has always been the place where virtual business gets done and is fully set up to seamlessly enable your business communications through the 21-day national lockdown, starting at midnight on 26 March 2020...
Bizcommunity.com 25 Mar 2020
Suppose you had the choice between two health policies, A and B. Policy A would result in the death of a lot of elderly people...
Alex Broadbent and Benjamin T H Smart 23 Mar 2020
More than 600 cases of Covid-19 have been confirmed in 34 countries in Africa as of 19 March, compared with 147 cases one week ago...
As the Covid-19 virus continues to spread around the world, the Jack Ma Foundation and Alibaba Foundation have announced they will be donating medical supplies to Africa...
The novel coronavirus disease (Covid-19) outbreak, recently declared a pandemic by the World Health Organisation, has taken the world by surprise...
Akebe Luther King Abia 18 Mar 2020
