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[RFI] The latest Ebola outbreak has killed nearly 4,700 people and is still spreading, with Nigeria recording its first case in more than a decade. The epidemic is not yet under control and tighter surveillance is needed, Jean Kaseya, director general of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, told RFI.
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[Africa CDC] Validation marks a major step toward a shared continental approach to secure, ethical and sovereign health data governance, ahead of finalisation and consideration through African Union…
The US government will increase measures aimed at preventing entry by people exposed to Ebola with a new requirement for US-bound air travellers to attest they have not been in the Democratic Republic…
[UN News] As the deadly Ebola disease outbreak reached an eighth province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), investigators pursued all leads on Thursday to assess the risk of the disease…
Across Africa, breast cancer is the most diagnosed diseases among women and the leading cause of cancer-related deaths.
[Daily News] Dodoma -- THE Ministry of Health, in collaboration with Bloomberg Philanthropies through the World Health Organization (WHO), Pure Earth, Vital Strategies and the Lead Exposure…
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Kenya will begin releasing the first group of people quarantined following exposure to Ebola on Sunday, October 25, as health authorities continue efforts to contain the…
