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...
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...
SENEGAL: Celebration of the International Day of the Fight against HIV AIDS
Senegal celebrated, this December 1, 2020, the World Day against HIV / AIDS under the theme: "Global solidarity and shared responsibility"....
ALGERIA: Coronavirus Algeria: Contamination on the rise among health care workers
For more than a week, coronavirus contamination (Covid-19) has been on the rise in Algeria, reaching a daily record this Wednesday. By Algeria 360
On...
AFRICA: 30 million doses of Covax vaccine expected by March
All 54 countries on the African continent have expressed a particular interest in access to vaccines, through the Covax mechanism, as...
SENEGAL: The new SMIT is named after Professor Moussa Seydi
The President of the Republic of Senegal, Macky Sall, today inaugurated the new building of the Infectious and Tropical Diseases Service of...
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...
COVID-19: South African variant of SARS-CoV-2 virus in 31 countries
The South African variant of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, is now spreading to 31 countries worldwide, following the infection...
SENEGAL: The country owes WHO a debt of gratitude in its fight against COVID-19
(Dakar, 09 November 2020) - NGO statement Human Action for Integrated Development in Senegal (AHDIS): After eight (08) months of response...
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 – Ndèye Khady Ndiaye’s lawyers appealed in the Sweet Beauty case
Another twist in the Sweet Beauty case! Ndèye Khady Ndiaye’s lawyers have just filed an appeal this Wednesday, 07 2023. The...
CORONAVIRUS : “Millions of covid-19 deaths in Africa”: Simon’s salty response to UN António...
The Senegalese rapper-activist and member of the Y’en marre movement, Simon Kouka made a scathing reply to the secretary general of the United Nations,...
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...
KENYA: Country seeks 400 volunteers to test covid-19 vaccine
ZE-AFRICANEWS - At Nairobie, researchers are looking for 400 volunteers to participate in a clinical test of a candidate coronavirus vaccine.This vaccine is developed...
SENEGAL – 400 cases of measles recorded
Measles is back in force, with more than "400 cases recorded nationally". It is a revelation of Doctor Boly Diop, responsible...
SENEGAL: The first dose of the vaccine available in March 2021
As part of the fight against the spread of Covid-19, the vaccine remains the last resort of countries to permanently stop...
ALGERIA will defeat the pandemic in the near future according to minister Benbouzid :...
The mask is one of the most important means of dealing with Covid-19. The Minister of Population Health and Hospitaller Reform Abderahmane Benbouzid called...
SENEGAL: Dr Sokhna: “In Senegal, there are 04 types of Coronavirus circulating.”
Dr Cheikh Sokhna, Director of the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), spoke on the progress of research on Coronavirus mutations. The various...
SENEGAL: The collective “my darkness, my pride, my identity” against depigmentation.
The ban on the advertising of depigmenting products launched by the CNRA since November 2019 is not enough to stop the evil, according to...
BENIN: Health Sector Notice of Strike.
On 30 and 31 August 2017, the health sector in Benin will be paralyzed. The medical corps gathered in his collective decided to go...
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...
BENIN: ABMS presents a new range of contraceptives.
The range of contraceptive products is expanding. A new method of contraception has indeed been made available to the populations. It is "Sayana...
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....
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...
BURUNDI: Divorce between the State of Burundi and WHO
The divorce between the State of Burundi and the World Health Organization (WHO). President Pierre Nkurunziza invited WHO experts to leave the country by...
SENEGAL: Hydroxychloroquine does miracles according to the study of Professor Moussa Seydi.
Senegalese authorities will continue the use of hydroxychloroquine in the treatment of patients with coronavirus. A study led by Professor Moussa Seydi showed the...
DR CONGO: Confinement of Ibanda: The population must make its provisions
The authorities have decided, the municipality of Ibanda de Bukavu will enter into confinement for three days between 1 and 3 June 2020. A...
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...
GABON: Faso Soap, this anti-mosquito soap that could revolutionize the fight against malaria.
The adventure began in 2013. Nearly four years ago, Moctar Dembele and Gérard Niyoudiko announced the creation of a very special soap ... These...
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...
CORONAVIRUS : Rehabilitation of working hours in Senegal and Ivory Coast.
In Africa, prevention measures are linked to the Covid-19 pandemic. With the closing of borders and schools and curfews observed in some countries of...
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...
SENEGAL: “Let’s respect the measures barriers!” By Mary Teuw Niane
Dear friends, dear friends,The epidemic of the covid19 corona virus continues to expand. Slowly, it is spreading and growing on the African continent. In...
TUNISIA: Covid-19: No new contamination
The Ministry of Health announced, in a press release released on Monday, that no new cases of coronavirus infection have been recorded, out of...
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...
