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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...

SOUTH AFRICA – Scientists suspect new variant of Covid-19

The National Institute for Communicable Diseases of South Africa (NICD) said in a statement on Monday, 30 August 2021, that the country’s...

DR CONGO – Bombé, a home-made drug that wreaks havoc

Bombé, a harmful substance that is highly prized by young Congolese, is an artisanal drug made from black dust extracted from...

TUNISIA – 551,000 people received their vaccine-19 in one day

The Tunisian government launched a Commando vaccination campaign on Sunday 8 August 2021. This decision is due to the increase in...

ANTICOVID-19 VACCINE – Pfizer and Moderna vaccine prices to increase 

The pharmaceutical companies Pfizer and Moderna will raise the price of their vaccines in the contracts currently being negotiated with the...

SENEGAL – 16 “Health” questions from Bougane Gueye Dany to Macky Sall

"Mr. President, are you aware that in some health centres in Dakar, maternity services have been closed to make room for...

SENEGAL – Delta variant wreaks havoc in the country

Senegal is facing a third wave of contamination that is very virulent. The Delta variant has brought down health structures, and...

COVID-19 – Senegal could close its borders again 

The President of the Republic of Senegal, Macky Sall, is considering closing the borders to deal with a third wave of...

SENEGAL – President Macky responsible for third wave of covid-19 according to DRC

The Congress of the Democratic Renaissance (CRD) met this Thursday, July 15, 2021 to give its position on the third wave...

COVID-19 – US to deliver 25 million doses to Africa

With the staggering evolution of Covid-19 around the world, particularly in Africa, the U.S. government has decided to make its contribution...

COVID-19 – Pfizer to apply for authorization for a third dose of vaccine

Trials are already underway for a third dose of Covid-19 vaccine, administered six months after the second, to increase the level...

GABON – 162 Cuban doctors arrive in Libreville

One hundred and sixty-two Cuban doctors landed on Sunday, April 11, 2021, in Gabon. Their mission is to strengthen the medical...

SENEGAL – Didier Raoul visits Dakar

Didier Raoult will be in Senegal from this Sunday, March 27, 2021, for a working visit of a few days, according to...

RWANDA – Delivery of 100,000 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine

On Wednesday, 03 March 2021, Rwanda received 100,000 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. It thus became the first country in Africa to...

MOROCCO – Bill to legalize the therapeutic use of cannabis under review

The Moroccan government is studying, this Thursday, March 04, 2021, a bill on the legal use of cannabis. A decision that is...

SENEGAL – Six girls victims of an excision that went wrong

It is in Boune, in the department of Dakar that six girls aged between 7 and 9 years were victims, this...

AFRICA – More than 100 thousand deaths due to Coronavirus

The African continent, which seemed to have more or less mastered the first wave of Covid-19 contamination, is being ravaged by...

SENEGAL – Receipt of the first doses of vaccine-19

Senegal is awaiting, on Wednesday, February 17, 2021, the receipt of the first doses of anti-Covid vaccines to arrive by Air...

RWANDA: Covid-19 vaccination begins with U.S. Moderna vaccine

On Sunday, February 14, 2021, the Rwandan Ministry of Health announced the official launch of the national Covid-19 vaccination program. The country...

ALGERIA: Epidemiological balance stable despite slight episodic increases

Algeria’s epidemic curve has been stable for several months, which marks an improvement in the situation with contamination currently at 238 cases...

AFRICA: Mortality up as Africa marks year of COVID-19 according to WHO

Deaths due to COVID-19 have skyrocketed 40% in Africa over the past month, bringing the number of victims closer to the...

NIGERIA: Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala to take over WTO Leadership

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is expected to be the next Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO). She is now the only candidate...

SOUTH AFRICA: Astra/Zeneca vaccine temporarily suspended

South Africa has decided to suspend the vaccine developed by the Astra/Zeneca-Oxford laboratories following a study by the University of Witwatersrand...

SENEGAL: The Covid-19 Curve Continues to Rise

Senegal is facing a second wave of uncontrollable Covid-19 contamination. Despite the various measures taken by the government to break the...
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