Can mobile-based systems strengthen Africa's poor public health infrastructure?

The most disadvantaged region in the world, Sub-Saharan Africa is witness to improvements in the quality and coverage of healthcare …

How West African countries are coping in absence of strong healthcare system

In countries like Liberia and Nigeria, declining budgetary share in health services continues to undermine public well-being

Health interventions can help reduce burden of Neglected Tropical Diseases

The challenges to NTD elimination in Africa are multifaceted, but political commitments and the financial support is enabling the continent to …

Why pregnancy brings distress for women in Sierra Leone

A crumbling health system deters women from going to hospitals, making the West African country home to the world's highest maternal death rate

Nation without doctors

Shortage of medical staff is a major challenge to Kenya's healthcare sector

SDG remains a distant dream in Sub-Saharan region

Africa's progress is crucial to the world achieving the 37 health-related indicators under the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals by …

The solution for Africa’s health problem is in basing health outside of disease

Health does not begin with disease but is dependent on the way of living, clean environment and good nutrition knowledge

Breaking free: How several initiatives are helping Africa get better healthcare

Four projects of differing nature in different countries

People-centric services help Rwanda move towards universal health coverage

Rwanda’s healthcare system is strengthened by 58,286 community health workers who go house to house to provide basic healthcare support and …

Why fixing Africa's data gaps will lead to better health policies

Commitment may be the first step towards affordable health care, but more needs to be done to harness the power of data for public health

How a nutrition programme is helping a Rwanda village overcome malnutrition

Under the Gikuriro Project, 336 households in Muhoza village do not have a single undernourished child as of now

Africa's non-communicable disease burden likely to worsen without political will

Africa has the resources and support to tackle non-communicable diseases; all it requires is political will to seize the opportunity

A Bang for the Buck: Leveraging flexible seed money to improve impact

A mix of integrated financial approaches is needed to bring about transformative change

Extracting a radioactive disaster in Niger

For 40 years, French firms have been extracting uranium ore in the heart of the Sahara. But instead of benefiting, local communities in Niger …

The death rate for mothers having C-sections is 50 times higher in Africa

It isn’t only the mothers who are suffering — the in-hospital mortality of babies after Caesarean delivery was double that of high-…

After India becomes ODF, Nigeria faces a mounting challenge

The African nation is set to replace India with the largest number of open defecators

Six reasons why antibiotics access remains a challenge in Uganda

Lack of registry, sub-standard health facilities, poor cold storage, limited expenditure on health, irrational antibiotic use and lack of …

World Malaria Day: How Africa plans to fight the disease

Malawi becomes the first African nation to roll out landmark vaccine, Ghana and Kenya to join the league soon; Uganda adopts a new mass action …

Road to measles elimination is predictable, but can be rocky

In 2019, Ukraine, Philippines, Madagascar, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Venezuela and Brazil, recorded tens of thousands of measles …

World doesn't have enough oncologists to treat rising cancer patients in Africa

The continent currently has 3,913 cancer specialists but 50% more will be needed to treat more than 2 lakh new cancer cases

Radical ideas are needed to break the DRC’s Ebola outbreak. Here are some

The deaths in this outbreak are 10% of the total deaths recorded in West Africa in 2014, which took more than 11,000 lives

Lack of access to sanitary products, privacy drives girls away from schools in Zambia

New report says girls prefer to stay home during menstruation for fear of staining their dresses, interacting with and being teased by boys, as …

Nigeria needs a more effective sanitation strategy. Here are some ideas

Almost one in four Nigerians – around 50 million people – defecate in open areas

What the US could learn about vaccination from Nigeria

Nigeria’s highly mobilized efforts to eliminate polio can teach America how to reverse the increase in measles cases and shore up its …

Drones deliver medicines in Africa

A US-based company transports life-saving drugs, 148 vaccines and blood units to 2,000 health facilities across Ghana