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INFANT MORTALITY – 340 children under 5 die every day from preventable diseases
On average, nearly 1.6 million people get sick every day because they have consumed food that is not safe to eat....
HEALTH – Health Progress at Risk
The head of the UN warns states. Progress in health is in jeopardy. He said so on the margins of the...
BURUNDI – Country inaugurates its first public IVF centre
CEO of the Merck Foundation recognizes the efforts of the First Lady of Burundi as Ambassador of “More Than a Mother” to...
SENEGAL – A girl hospitalized with oxygen dies during a shedding
It is the excitement and consternation in the south of the country. A girl hospitalized under oxygen dies during a shedding....
HEALTH – Pr Souleymane Mboup named best microbiologist in Senegal
The founding president of the Institut de Recherche en Santé, de Surveillance Epidemiologque et de Formation (IRESSEF) has been elected Senegal’s...
SENEGAL – Stakeholders call for accelerated production of messenger RNA vaccines
GCAP Senegal, a member of GCAP GLOBAL, which brings together some 100 civil society organizations, is advocating for a transfer of...
HEALTH – Human case of hemorrhagic fever confirmed Crimea Congo
The Ministry of Health and Social Action informed this Saturday, April 29th, 2023 of the activation of the Center for Emergency...
ALBINISM – 13 June: a day to reaffirm the humanity of albinos
June 13 is International Albinism Awareness Day. It is an important day to close the gaps of ignorance that surround albinism...
GHANA – Towards digitization of pharmacies
The Ghanaian government now plans to fight counterfeit medicines. Thus, he decided to digitize pharmacies in order to better protect populations and...
SENEGAL – First cases of the Omicron variant detected
Senegal registered its first three cases of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus on Friday, 3 December 2021. According to a statement...
AFRICA – Johnson & Johnson decides to stop testing for a vaccine
A real stop in the fight against HIV AIDS. The “Imbokodo” test programme, launched in Southern Africa since 2017, has not...
IVORY COAST – There is «no evidence» of the presence of Ebola virus according...
The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Tuesday, August 31, 2021 that there was no Ebola virus in Côte d'Ivoire. New...