Covid-19: Anti-malaria drug trials underway in Lagos
The Nigerian authorities say trials are due to begin to see whether an anti-malarial drug is effective against coronavirus. The commissioner for health in Lagos state said healthcare workers as…
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The Nigerian authorities say trials are due to begin to see whether an anti-malarial drug is effective against coronavirus. The commissioner for health in Lagos state said healthcare workers as…
The Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, has denied claims that it ordered a package of COVID Organics (CVO) from Madagascar and extricates self from reports of a donation from…
Madagascar’s President Andry Rajoelina says he has been congratulated by his counterpart in the Democratic Republic of Congo for launching a herbal coronavirus “cure”. The World Health Organization (WHO) says…
Africa could become the next epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned. There was a sharp rise in cases in the past week. There have…
In the throes of the Coronavirus pandemic and its devastating effects on the world’s populace, the Democratic Republic of Congo is currently ruing as it battles the scourge in addition…
The World Health Organisation’s (WHO) Regional Director for Africa, Dr Matshidiso Moeti, has urged all countries in the region to prepare for Coronavirus (COVID-19) as a second case has been…
The World Health Organisation has put death toll from a measles epidemic in Congo at over 6,000, saying that more funds are needed to save lives during the world’s worst…
A medical expert in Nigeria, Prof. Abdulkadir Tabari has decried the poor medical know-how and a low percentage of professionals that the country produces. He said that a study by…
Tanzania on Tuesday summoned the World Health Organization’s local representative, who over the weekend alleged that the government refused to share information on suspected Ebola cases. This is as transparency…
Following the release of a report that said 5.7 million cases of malaria had been recorded in Burundi in 2019, the government of Burundi has officially debunked the claims. Speaking to…