Health

Nurses in Nigeria's public hospitals began a seven-day "warning" strike on Wednesday, demanding improved remuneration, better working conditions and increased...

At least 26 people have died from a meningitis outbreak in Nigeria's northwest Kebbi state, a local health official said...

An influential South African government agency recommended the country phase out coal-fired power stations on Thursday as it published a...

Nigeria launched comprehensive standards and guidelines for organ and tissue transplants on Thursday, aiming to regulate a sector plagued by...

The United Nations has launched an emergency appeal to raise $11.2 million to help fund Uganda's response to an Ebola...

South African health authorities have called for heightened public vigilance after three new laboratory-confirmed cases of Mpox were reported in...

Uganda has discharged the last eight patients who were recovering from an Ebola outbreak declared last month, health authorities reported...

Nigeria’s Federal Executive Council (FEC) has announced the approval of N4.8 billion for the treatment of HIV patients in the...

Uganda has begun a trial vaccination programme for the strain of Ebola viral infection that is behind the country's latest...

There were 773 bodies in hospital morgues in and around the eastern Congolese city of Goma as of Jan. 30...