Health

A study using a sample of blood donors in South Africa has suggested that nearly everyone in the country has either been infected with Covid or has been vaccinated, or both, the Daily Maverick reports. The South African National Blood Service and the Western Cape Blood Service looked at the …

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has denied claims that the country recorded the first case of monkeypox in its western region, following early reports suggesting it had. “Reports circulating on social media about a possible outbreak in the country are false,” the director of public health at the Ghana Health …

The new head of the US President’s Emergency Plan for Aids Relief (Pepfar), Dr John Nkengasong, says HIV and Aids remain a significant threat for Africa. The virologist from Cameroon has spent the last two years heading Africa’s Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. He told the BBC that there …

Hussein Botchway, a physiotherapist at Korle-Bu Hospital in Ghana warned of the risks of having sex while standing, saying it can lead to stroke. According to the physiotherapist, sex is meant to be enjoyed and people bring all sorts of creativity into the act, but “we have to be aware …

Health authorities in the Canadian metropolis of Montreal are examining more than a dozen suspected cases of monkeypox, the public broadcaster Radio-Canada reported on Wednesday. “Montreal public health confirms that several cases of monkeypox are being studied in the metropolis”, indicates Radio-Canada, specifying that “at least 13 cases” are being …

The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned of the dangerousness of a new variant of the coronavirus, less transmissible but more serious. The new variant is about the Middle East respiratory syndrome also called MERS. MERS, the pathogen of Middle East respiratory syndrome, was spotted in 2012 in Saudi Arabia. …

North Korean President Kim Jong-un imposed a total lockdown following the discovery of the first case of covid-19 in the country on Thursday. This dreaded first case was detected during tests carried out on Sunday, May 8, in the city of Pyongyang, on sick and feverish people. North Korea’s leader …

Uganda’s Health Minister, Dr Jane Ruth Aceng authorized private hospitals to charge 20,000 shillings (€6) to people wishing to be vaccinated against Covid-19 as an overhead for vaccines. While announcing collaboration with private health facilities in Kampala, Dr Aceng said the government is now allowing all private facilities to start …

Authorities in Mozambique say over 14,000 HIV patients have abandoned antiretroviral therapy in the first three months of the year in the central province of Zambézia. Male patients form the largest part of those no longer taking the drugs, according to Dr Cheinaze Veríssimo – the provincial head of the …

Health authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo have confirmed a third case of Ebola in the northwestern city of Mbandaka, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Thursday. It is a 48-year-old man who is a high-risk contact of the first patient, who died on April 21, Reuters agency …