Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Twenty-two countries in the world have not yet reported any case of COVID-19, even as the rest of the world is battling to contain the virus. The countries that have reported no cases so far come mainly from two continents-Africa and Asia. In Africa, the …
Read More »DRC discharges last ebola patient from a treatment facility
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The DRC has discharged the last Ebola patient from a treatment center located in the North Eastern town of Beni according to the country’s Ministry of Health. Thishis comes after more than a year after an Ebola outbreak was declared in DRC in August 2018. …
Read More »Second Ebola vaccine to be introduced in DRC in mid-October: WHO
Geneva, Switzerland | AFP | The Democratic Republic of the Congo is to introduce a second vaccine next month to combat the Ebola virus, which has killed more than 2,100 people in the country, the World Health Organization said Monday. The announcement came as the aid group Doctors Without Borders (MSF) …
Read More »COMMENT: Universal health in Africa
COMMENT: By Matshidiso Moeti Ghana’s insurance scheme and Ethiopia’s a cadre of health-extension workers prove it is achievable Three years ago, a young boy in rural Guinea fell victim to the Ebola virus. An epidemic soon took hold of West Africa. By the time it was contained, it had killed …
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