🇺🇬 Cultural beliefs deter fight against anthrax
** Uganda is facing a public health challenge that extends far beyond infectious disease management. A March 2024 situation report documenting five c...
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🇺🇬 Uganda's Healthcare and Education Crisis
Uganda's public health and education sectors are experiencing a critical inflection point that presents both significant challenges and untapped inves...
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🇰🇪 Why adults grind their teeth and what it means
Bruxism—the involuntary grinding of teeth, particularly during sleep—has emerged as a significant yet underrecognized health concern across African po...
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🇳🇬 Health Experts Say Funding Delays Threaten Immunisation
Nigeria's immunisation programme faces a critical juncture. Health experts are sounding alarms over recurring delays in fund releases that directly un...
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🇳🇬 Nigeria: Counterfeit Cancer Drugs
Nigeria's pharmaceutical sector is experiencing a critical convergence of crises that threatens both patient outcomes and investor confidence in Afric...
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🇺🇬 Price of sight: The pain in accessing eye care services
Uganda faces a critical healthcare bottleneck that most European investors overlook: a severe shortage of eye care professionals serving 45 million pe...
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🇳🇬 Counterfeit cancer drugs
Nigeria's pharmaceutical regulatory authority has sounded an urgent warning about the proliferation of counterfeit versions of two critical cancer med...
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🇳🇬 Plateau State University sanctions 76 students for examin
Plateau State University's recent disciplinary action against 76 students for examination malpractice represents a critical inflection point in Nigeri...
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🇿🇦 South Africa’s Momentum Eyes Discovery’s Medical-Insurance
South Africa's health insurance sector is entering a new competitive phase as Momentum Group Ltd., one of the continent's largest financial services c...
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🇿🇦 BHEKISISA: Bringing it home: SA leads the charge to make
South Africa is positioning itself as a global hub for affordable HIV therapeutics, with the National Aids Council (NAC) launching an aggressive strat...
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🇿🇦 SPOTLIGHT: Delayed diagnosis of hearing loss undermining
South Africa's healthcare system is confronting a critical infrastructure gap that carries profound developmental consequences for children and substa...
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🇿🇦 South Africa's Health System at a Crossroads
South Africa stands at a critical juncture in its healthcare evolution, presenting a paradoxical landscape of systemic paralysis and pioneering innova...
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🇳🇬 Health experts say funding delays threaten immunisation g
Nigeria's public health infrastructure faces a critical juncture as immunisation programmes across the country struggle with chronic funding delays th...
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🇹🇿 Detect cerebral palsy in minors early: experts
East Africa's healthcare infrastructure remains fragmented when it comes to early detection and management of neurological conditions affecting childr...
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🇰🇪 Here’s what happens when you stop taking Ozempic, Mounjaro
The explosive growth of GLP-1 receptor agonists—particularly Ozempic (semaglutide) and Mounjaro (tirzepatide)—has created a pharmaceutical phenomenon ...
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🇰🇪 Court halts plan to retire professors at 70
Kenya's court system has intervened to block proposed changes to academic retirement policies at the country's universities, ruling that professors wi...
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🇿🇦 Read to me: Why just 15 minutes a day can change a child'
South Africa is confronting a critical literacy challenge that extends far beyond classroom walls. As the nation observes International Read to Me Day...
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🇳🇬 Bullying: Parents, schools have more work to do to stop i
Violence within Nigerian secondary schools has reached a critical juncture, with recent incidents of severe student-on-student assault highlighting sy...
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🇺🇬 African govts tasked to fund cancer research
Cancer has emerged as one of Africa's fastest-growing health crises, yet the continent remains starved of the research infrastructure that could turn ...
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🇺🇬 Universities set to raise cut-off points
Uganda's higher education sector is undergoing significant structural transformation as the government expands its public university network to 12 ins...
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