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Ethiopia Receives 14 Million Praziquantel Tablets

Ethiopia Receives 14 Million Praziquantel Tablets

Merck, a leading science and technology company, today announced that the largest delivery of praziquantel tablets ever shipped to Ethiopia recently arrived in Addis Ababa, the capital of the East African country. Ethiopia has received around 14 million tablets for mass distribution to school children. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), Ethiopia is one […]

L’Oréal Accelerates Product Development for Sub-Saharan Africa Thanks to New Research & Innovation Center

L’Oréal Accelerates Product Development for Sub-Saharan Africa Thanks to New Research & Innovation Center

L’Oréal inaugurated today its new Research & Innovation Center to study African hair and skin specificities as well as the beauty routines and expectations of sub-Saharan consumers. The Research & Innovation Center in South Africa is the Group’s 7th R&I hub globally. It hosts product development, evaluation and advanced research teams and will employ scientists […]

Decriminalization of Marijuana in Ghana: Why it is Important for Ghana

Decriminalization of Marijuana in Ghana: Why it is Important for Ghana

There is a significant academic debate about decriminalization of marijuana in the country, and this has received some degree of political and public support. Some have argued that decriminalization will open a floodgate for drug use in the country, while others (like myself), do not agree and see it instead as the best way to […]

A Strange Sickness Is Killing People In Tanzania: Many on Quarantine

A Strange Sickness Is Killing People In Tanzania: Many on Quarantine

Seven people have died as of Saturday last week while 21 others are quarantined at the Dodoma Regional Referral Hospital and Kondoa District Hospital after they contracted a mysterious disease in Chemba and Kondoa districts. The Minister for Health, Social Development, Gender, Elderly and Children, Ms Ummy Mwalimu, said samples of the victims are now […]

General Electric opens new healthcare training and skills institute

General Electric opens new healthcare training and skills institute

General Electric today marked another step in the development of sustainable healthcare in Kenya, with the inauguration of the brand new $13 million GE Healthcare Skills and Training Institute, an education facility for healthcare professionals. The centre was inaugurated in the presence of Dr Cleopa Mailu, Cabinet Secretary, Ministry of Health for Kenya (or designate) […]

Facebook launches new products to offer increased support to prevent suicide and self-harm

Facebook launches new products to offer increased support to prevent suicide and self-harm

Today we’re updating the resources we offer to people around the world who may be experiencing self-injury or suicidal thoughts, as well as the support we offer to their concerned friends and family members. Developed in collaboration with mental health organizations and with the input from people who have personal experience with self-injury and suicide, […]

Resident Doctors in Nigeria to Begin Nationwide Strike On June 9

Resident Doctors in Nigeria to Begin Nationwide Strike On June 9

The National Association of Resident Doctors of Nigeria (NARD) will start a nationwide strike on Thursday, June 9, its National President, Muhammad Askira, has announced. Mr. Askira told journalists in Kano on Tuesday that the decision was taken at the ordinary general meeting of the National Executive Council of the association held between May 30 […]

Nigeria Records First Successful Bone Bridge Surgery in West Africa

Nigeria Records First Successful Bone Bridge Surgery in West Africa

The Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) in December 2015 carried out the first successful Bone Bridge Surgery in West Africa as well as successful Cochlear Implant surgeries on three deaf patients without the support of foreign doctors, the state government said on Tuesday. LASUTH also had its first successful Kidney Transplant carried out by […]

Cheap Device for Examining Eyes Successfully Tested in Africa

Cheap Device for Examining Eyes Successfully Tested in Africa

The armed rebels in Sudan’s Blue Nile claim that the government’s military and paramilitary forces “have suffered their biggest defeat in the six years of their military offensive”. Yasir Arman of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N) said that this year witnessed an unprecedented defeat of the government forces. Speaking to Radio Dabanga on Monday, […]

Farm Technology Helps Clean Up Kenya’s Drinking Water

Farm Technology Helps Clean Up Kenya’s Drinking Water

Samuel Kinuthia knows how to make the most of technology. Using a technique called basin terracing, he has boosted his income at his farm in Murang’a county, and helped provide Kenyans as far away as Nairobi with better access to clean drinking water. Kinuthia and a group of 300 farmers in Kiaruta village are turning […]

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