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Court bars non-laboratory staff from conducting medical tests
By Dzuya Walter,
1000, May 28, 2019 (EAT)
Non-laboratory staff will no longer be allowed to conduct tests that require high skilled medical laboratory. This is after the High Court on Monda...
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Does Chinese medicine work?
By CNN,
1228, May 26, 2019 (EAT)
Herbal remedies have been used by healers around the world for centuries to prevent and treat disease. But it's in China that the practice has been mo...
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British man accused of giving Ugandan churchgoers bleach-based ‘miracle solution’
By CNN,
1025, May 25, 2019 (EAT)
A British man, Sam Little, has been arrested for allegedly distributing a "miracle solution" containing bleach to Ugandan churchgoers, police told CNN...
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World Health Organization declares Algeria free of Malaria disease
By Reuters,
1933, May 23, 2019 (EAT)
Algeria has officially become free of malaria, as declared by the World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday, making it the third African country to...
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Malawi becomes 1st nation to immunize kids against malaria
By VOA,
2036, April 24, 2019 (EAT)
The World Health Organization says Malawi has become the first country to begin immunizing children against malaria, using the only licensed vaccine t...
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World’s first malaria vaccine to go to 360,000 children in Kenya, Malawi, Ghana
By CNN,
1022, April 24, 2019 (EAT)
Malawi has started vaccinating children under two years of age and Kenya and Ghana will begin using the world's first malaria vaccine in the coming we...
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Long road to recovery for children after Cyclone Idai
By VOA,
1655, April 20, 2019 (EAT)
The U.N. children’s fund says at least 1.6 million children in Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe need help right away to recover from the affects of C...
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Aid, health workers race to help Mozambique cyclone victims
By VOA,
1225, April 16, 2019 (EAT)
International aid agencies and government forces are racing against time to help the hundreds of thousands affected by Cyclone Idai. The storm, whi...
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Malawi deploys mobile clinics for cyclone-affected children
By VOA,
1720, April 12, 2019 (EAT)
At least 1,000 people were killed when Cyclone Idai hit Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and Malawi in March. The cyclone's floodwaters swamped medical facilitie...
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Cyclone Idai threat to food security, health in Southern Africa
By VOA,
1200, April 3, 2019 (EAT)
As the flood waters recede in cyclone-hit southern Africa, officials are starting to assess medium- and longer-term requirements, including food secur...
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US addressing ‘immediate’ humanitarian needs of cyclone idai victims
By VOA,
1139, April 2, 2019 (EAT)
The U.S. Department of Defense has authorized up to $15 million in aid to areas of Mozambique devastated by Cyclone Idai, the U.S. Africa Command said...
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Kenya is keen on enhancing its cooperation with Cuba, President Kenyatta says
By PSCU,
2123, April 1, 2019 (EAT)
President Uhuru Kenyatta has said Kenya is keen on enhancing its cooperation with Cuba especially in the provision of quality healthcare, one of the G...
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Mozambique confirms cholera cases in aftermath of Cyclone
By VOA,
2123, March 27, 2019 (EAT)
Local authorities and international aid agencies struggling to deal with the massive destruction and displacement left behind by Cyclone Idai in Mozam...
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Around 1.85 million people affected by cyclone in Mozambique: U.N.
By Reuters,
1418, March 26, 2019 (EAT)
About 1.85 million people have now been affected by Cyclone Idai and its aftermath in Mozambique alone, U.N. humanitarian agency OCHA said on Tuesday,...
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Mozambicans look to God as cyclone deaths rise
By Reuters,
2056, March 25, 2019 (EAT)
Worshippers gathered at battered churches in the Mozambican port of Beira on Sunday, praying for divine protection as the death toll crept up from a c...
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Harrowing scenes after Cyclone Idai with inland ocean visible from outer space
By CNN,
1725, March 23, 2019 (EAT)
As many as "300 to 400" bodies line the banks of a road out of the city of Beira in Mozambique, according to an eyewitness account, and flood waters h...
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Cholera cases reported as hunger, disease stalk African cyclone survivors
By Reuters,
1607, March 23, 2019 (EAT)
Cholera cases were reported on Friday in the Mozambican city of Beira, adding a risk of deadly illnesses for hundreds of thousands of people who are s...
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Mozambique’s Nyusi travels to Cyclone ravaged ccoast
By VOA,
1158, March 23, 2019 (EAT)
The president of Mozambique, Filipe Nyusi, has visited the country's coastal Buzi district, one of the areas most damaged by Cyclone Idai. Nyusi fl...
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Shortages of everything, and worries about relatives, for Mozambique flood survivors
By Reuters,
1158, March 23, 2019 (EAT)
At a camp near the city of Beira for people rescued from Mozambique’s catastrophic flooding, residents were dealing on Friday with worries about the...
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Global ‘pandemic’ of fake drugs killing children worldwide, report says
By CNN,
1436, March 16, 2019 (EAT)
The deaths of children are a cause for misery, and new research suggests one of the gravest perils comes in the form of falsified and substandard drug...
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