Mobile app aims to speed up border reopenings in Africa
Mobile app aims to speed up border reopening in Africa. Two major African public bodies are promoting a new technology that could connect the continent’s Covid-19 testing centers and ease…
Top Ten News Items on Health, 4th September 2020
FG further relaxes COVID-19 restrictions. NHIS set to accredit 100 Primary Health Centres in Kebbi. President Buhari reiterates support for primary healthcare. Celebrating Nigerian health workers as unsung heroes against…
New long-acting injectable drug might soon be a key HIV treatment
American scientists have developed an injectable drug that blocks HIV from entering cells. They say the new drug potentially offers long-lasting protection with fewer side effects and could eventually replace…
Lessons from Pathfinder Nigeria’s five decades of breaking boundaries in sexual and reproductive health
By Thelma Chioma Thomas and Onyinye Oranezi (Lead Writers) Pathfinder International started in Nigeria in 1965 when Dr. Clarence Gamble and his wife Sarah Gamble came to Nigeria in the…
COVID Alert SA – to strengthen South Africa’s digital contact tracing efforts.
COVID Alert SA is built on the exposure notification Application Programming Interface (API), developed by Apple and Google to enable contact tracing through mobile phones. The app is built on…
New Covid-19 tracing app could prevent second surge and save lives
South Africans are urged to download the newly developed Covid Alert SA app to strengthen the country’s contact tracing efforts. Experts say user privacy will be protected.
Approval of new treatment set to ease cancer burden
Health authorities approved the immunotherapy-based treatment Keytruda for more forms of cancer. It is used to treat certain cancers by working with the immune system.
Health workers who deliver: LUTH’s resolve to help COVID-19 positive mothers give birth safely
By Adaobi Ezeokoli & Chibuike Alagboso (Lead Writers) Professor Chris Bode, Chief Medical Director at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), is sitting at a conference table in his spacious…
Brain cancer survivor teaches healthy eating to prevent diseases in others
A Limpopo dietician, diagnosed with cancer as a teenager, learned how to use food to fight cancer. Now, she’s sharing her knowledge of nutrition with others.
Rethinking Healthcare Systems in Africa
African countries have the advantage of being able to adopt the most recent information technologies without having to adapt them to legacy IT facilities. In doing so, healthcare could not…