Health

Five people died from Ebola in Uganda and another 19 deaths were likely caused by the disease, President Yoweri Museveni said on Wednesday. In a televised address President Museveni said that in addition to five confirmed Ebola fatalities, another 19 deaths in the community were likely due to the disease. …

Scientists from more than 50 African countries gathered in Kigali for the 8th annual conference of the Pan-African Mosquito Control Association to find ways to eradicate malaria, a disease that kills more people in Africa than anywhere else. somewhere else. Every two minutes and each year a child dies of …

The number of suspected Ebola infections continues to rise in Uganda as the health ministry reported 34 suspected cases and 21 deaths possibly caused by the virus. Health teams are continuing to trace any people that may have come into contact with it. The outbreak began in the central district …

Childhood diseases such as measles, tetanus and polio are on the rise in Ethiopia’s Tigray region after vaccination rates declined amid the ongoing war in the region, according to regional health officials. Data from the Tigray Health Bureau shows that the percentage of children in the region receiving routine vaccines …

The Seventh Conference of the Global Fund to Fight HIV, Malaria and Tuberculosis was held from Sunday 18 to Tuesday 21 September in New York for replenishment purposes. The objective of the institution was to raise 18 billion over the next three years which will be used to finance health …

Uganda’s health ministry reported six new Ebola cases after officials confirmed an outbreak in the country earlier in the week in the central district of Mubende. The authorities are also investigating whether seven other deaths, including that of a one-year-old girl, were due to Ebola. Of the six new cases, …

An outbreak of the skin condition scabies affected about 25,000 people in an eastern district near the capital, Kampala, the BBC reported citing health authorities. Head of health services in Pallisa district, Geoffrey Mulekwa, is quoted by the BBC as saying that those affected were from fishing villages in Kasodo …

Ugandan health authorities and the World Health Organization declared an outbreak of Ebola in the country on Tuesday after a case of the relatively rare Sudanese strain was confirmed. A 24-year-old man in Uganda’s central Mubende district showed symptoms and later died. “We want to inform the country that we …

Ghana’s health authorities declared the end of Marburg virus outbreak, a highly infectious disease similar to Ebola, that was confirmed in July. Ghana’s Marburg outbreak was the second in West Africa. The first ever case of the virus was detected last year in Guinea, with no further cases identified. “The …

Vabbing, new trend on Tik Tok, is the act of wearing perfume with one’s own vaginal secretions in order to attract potential sexual partners. Derived from the words “vagina” and “dabbing”, “vabbing” is said to have been invented by American comedians and influencers before being popularized worldwide with social networks. …