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The Government of Jamaica has made the decision to procure additional technology tools during the new financial year to enhance traffic management and control. Minister without portfolio in the M...

HEPATITIS is known as the silent killer. It has recently been found alarmingly rising in peri-urban squatter...

The Director General of the National Agency for the Control of AIDS, Dr. Gambo Aliyu, has urged all Nigerians to use the occasion

Gonorrhoea is the second-most common disease to be sexually transmitted across the world

Gonorrhoea is the second-most common disease to be sexually transmitted across the world

A strand of gonorrhoea resistant to most drugs used to treat the disease is now in Nairobi.

Speaking about WHOs latest cancer campaign to amplify the voices of people affected by cancer, André Ilbawi, Technical Lead for WHOs Cancer Control Programme, says it “focuses on better understanding and addressing the needs of people affected by cancer, so not only those that are diagnosed but also caregivers and people bereaved”. For example, he points out that “very few countries, even among those in the OECD, have policies like paid leave for caregivers of those diagnosed with cancer....

HEPATITIS, if not treated in time, is fatal. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), hepatitis B and C are...

Kota Kinabalu: The Sabah State Health Department launched a guidebook on the management of tuberculosis (TB) in Sabah.

On March 12, 2022, 12-year-old Akosua (not her real name) was sent on an errand by her mother in Nima, a suburb of Accra. On her way home, an unknown man believed to be in his 30s asked her to buy a recharge card for him, which she did. Upon…