Global blindness set to ‘triple by 2050’
The number of blind people across the world is set to triple within the next…
Browsing: Surgery Africa
Closing the breast cancer divide in sub-Saharan Africa
Researchers from Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Centre and the Uganda Cancer Institute are launching a clinical…
JUTH to become West Africa’s training centre for cochlear implants
The West Africa Post-Graduate College of Surgeons has selected Jos University Teaching Hospital (JUTH), as…
Nonprofit cosmetic surgery for breast cancer survivors in West Africa
The Centre for Cosmetic Surgery Ghana (CCSG) was set up in 2006 as a for-profit…
Scientists start to grow human livers in London hospital lab
Researchers have begun to grow new livers from rejected donor organs in a breakthrough that could…
One-third of hospitals in developing world lack running water
A study of 430 hospitals in the developing world found that more than one-third lacked…
Lack of transgender healthcare curbs development
Failure to provide adequate healthcare for transgender people is holding back development in Africa and…
The Lagos State University Teaching Hospital records first successful bone bridge surgery in West Africa
The Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) in December 2015 carried out the first successful…
The contribution of health partnerships in universal health coverage
World Health Day (WHD) provides a unique opportunity to look at health through a global…
Worry as hepatitis becomes silent public health threat
Hepatitis, a medical condition that affects the liver, is silently emerging into a major public…