Text messages curb maternal and infant mortality in Cameroon’s rural communities
A happy mother jealously holds her healthy baby, thanks to improved health facilities in Limbe, Cameroon (PHOTO: ClimateReporters/Elias Ntungwe) By ...
Tag: Health
ZIKA: WHO calls for increased vigilance
Zika virus The World Health Organisation (WHO) has called for vigilance against the deadly Zika virus in spite of a ...
UN chief stresses need to stop stigma against people living with HIV/AIDS
Special Event: “Moving forward together: Leaving no one behind” (on the occasion of the World AIDS Day (1 December))(organized by ...
Death toll rises as Yellow Fever hits Angola
A patient at the hospital in Luanda (PHOTO: AFP) A yellow fever epidemic in Angola has killed at least 250 ...
Environment, sanitation and the next communicable disease in West Africa
Children in Liberia, during the Ebola response in communities. (PHOTO: WHO) By Ugonma Cokey In medical terms, communicable diseases are ...
Zika now a public health emergency of international concern – WHO
By Adeyola Opaluwah The World Health Organisation has declared that the clusters of brain-damaged babies born in Brazil linked to ...
Nigeria: Lagos records first Lassa Fever case
Rat By Adeyola Opaluwah A 25-year-old student of the Ahmadu Bello University case, has been diagnosed of Lassa Fever at ...
Nigerian capital records first Lassa fever death
Rats (PHOTO: Prof S.R. Belmain, University of Greenwich) One person has died from Lassa Fever in Nigeria's capital, Abuja, taking ...
West Africa: Counting the economic cost as Ebola outbreak ends
An electronic billboard sensitizing locals about the deadly Ebola virus in Abidjan, Ivory Coast which banned all flights from countries ...
WHO hails first full week with no new Ebola cases since March 2014
Stop ebola campaign (PHOTO: ClimateReporters/Atayi Babs) No new Ebola cases were confirmed last week, marking the first full week without ...
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