Health Care

PRETORIA, Nov 23 (NNN-SANEWS) — The National Cancer Registry (NCR) has been named one of three IARC-GICR Collaborating Centres for sub-Saharan Africa by the International Agency for Research in Cancer (IARC) Global Initiative for Cancer Registry Develo...

Botswana has approved the use of injectable anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs to improve adherence to HIV treatment. Minister of Health Edwin Dikoloti says the injections, given every two months, are more convenient than daily pills, which patients sometimes...

RABAT— At least 11 people died and 43 were injured Tuesday when their bus overturned on a highway in northern Morocco, authorities said.The vehicle overturned a few kilometres from the city of Taza in the country’s mountainous northeast.Authorities hav...

Bacterial infections are the second leading cause of death worldwide, accounting for one in eight of all deaths in 2019, the first global study of their lethality revealed on Tuesday.The massive new study, published in The Lancet journal, looked at dea...

HARARE— Zimbabwean health workers have left the country in droves over the past year, a senior official at the Health Services Board (HSB) revealed.More than 4 000 health workers have left since 2021, HSB chairperson Dr Paulinus Sikosana said on Sunday...

The North West Department of Health will on Tuesday, 22 November 2022 host a Cancer awareness event in the Mahikeng Local Municipality.The event proceedings will encompass a Cancer Walkathon led by MEC Madoda Sambatha which will start at 8h00 at the Ba...

KAMPALA— Uganda is on the right track and doing well in its fight against the Ebola epidemic, UNICEF representative in Uganda Dr Mohamed Munir Safieldin has said.“Uganda is doing well and it has the expertise, which helped in West Africa and is helping...

Gunmen attacked an army base and a town in northeast Nigeria killing nine soldiers, two policemen and civilians, security sources and residents said Sunday, in the latest violence in the region.Riding in trucks fitted with machineguns, the fighters, su...