Health

According to the World Health Organization, one in seven adolescents worldwide suffers from a mental illness. Human well-being is closely linked to mental health, and a state of mental well-being enables us to cope with life’s stresses, recognize our potential, and study and work effectively. From childhood to adulthood, mental …

World Mental Health Day is celebrated every year on October 10, and aims to raise awareness of mental health issues and their importance worldwide. This year, the United Nations has chosen mental health in the workplace as its theme. When we are stressed, worried or anxious, it becomes difficult to …

A natural defense reflex to expel mucus or irritants from the respiratory tract, coughs can be acute, chronic, dry or oily. According to a general practitioner, most coughs are caused by a viral infection, but can also be triggered by other illnesses. So what’s the quickest way to cure it? …

Every year or so, during the month of October dedicated to breast cancer worldwide, messages asking men to suck on their wives breasts to fight the disease flood social networks. If that’s all it took, no woman would suffer from breast cancer. According to a popular saying, “women’s breasts are …

According to the World Health Organization, nearly 30,000 suspected cases of mpox have been reported in Africa since the beginning of the year. According to the U.N. health body, a majority were in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which has been grappling with an uptick in cases, along with its …

The province of South Kivu, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, is considered the epicenter of the mpox epidemic, also known as monkeypox. However, caring for those affected by the disease remains a challenge. Almost 6,000 cases have been recorded since the beginning of the year, representing more than a …

A case of monkeypox has been confirmed in Marrakech, Morocco, prompting the authorities to step up health surveillance. This case marks the first infection reported in the country since the start of the widely publicized global Mpox epidemic. In an official statement, the Ministry of Health announced that a patient …

50,000 doses of smallpox vaccine from the United States have arrived a week after the arrival of a first batch from the European Union, Congolese authorities said. Adults in Équateur, Sud-Kivu and Sankuru, the three provinces most affected, will be vaccinated first, starting on October 2, said Cris Kacita Osako, …

Fourteen African countries and numerous partners have pledged more than $45 million to the World Health Organization’s first-ever investment cycle, according to reports. “These commitments were made at the meeting of the World Health Organization’s Regional Committee for Africa, during which heads of state and government from across the continent …

Nigerian authorities have announced that they have received the first batch of vaccine against the mpox virus that is wreaking havoc on the continent. The country began the process to secure the vaccines well before it was declared a global health emergency by the World Health Organization (WHO) earlier this …