Material enables more reliable and meaningful self-screening
Paper-based diagnostics enable rapid medical test results at minimal cost — and now they’re about…
Browsing: Africa Health
African finance and health ministers meet on access to vaccines
WHO spokesman, Gregory Hartl as part of efforts to prevent childhood killer diseases and drive forward…
More investment needed in developing female-controlled HIV prevention options
Results from two large-scale studies of a vaginal ring that releases the antiretroviral medicine dapivirine…
Africa Pharmaceutical Summit
In its 3rd year, the Africa Pharmaceutical Summit (APS) is now established as the most…
Digital hub to help Africa track and control disease outbreaks to be based in Egypt
A new disease control hub is set to be launched in Egypt, which will use…
No need to panic over Zika virus, says health department
The Department of Health on Saturday (20 February 2016) said there was no need to…
The West Africa AIDS Foundation conducts HTC at the 7th Africa Conference
The West Africa AIDS Foundation (WAAF), a non-governmental organisation on 10-12 February 2016 conducted HIV…
In 2016, Samsung will be launching Digital Villages in Kenya, Ethiopia and Tanzania
Samsung Electronics Africa announced (on 18 February) that it will bolster its Corporate Citizenship efforts in…
New state-run pharmaceutical company to produce antiretrovirals by 2019
The recently established state-owned pharmaceutical company, Ketlaphela, will start to produce antiretroviral drugs in 2019,…
Detecting acute flaccid paralysis clusters provides early warning on polio outbreaks
An early-warning system based on statistical modelling that maps occurrences of the most common symptom…