Miriam Mutebi,NAIROBI – Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), such as cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, and obesity, kill 41 million people per year, with 77% of these deaths occurring in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). In Sub-Saharan Africa, NCDs are now responsible for roughly 37% of deaths – up from 24% in 2000. Cancer is one of the top three diseases driving this […]
Jörg Haas, BERLIN – Green hydrogen is all the rage these days. During November’s United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) in Egypt, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced that Germany will invest more than €4 billion ($4.3 billion) in developing a market for it. In the United States, President Joe Biden’s administration has made “clean” hydrogen a centerpiece […]
Renewable Energy developer CWP Global has signed an MoU with the Government of the Republic of Djibouti to create a 10GW renewable energy and green hydrogen hub. The project will go a long way towards realising the country in the Horn of Africa’s aspirations for cleaner and more security energy supplies. It should create green […]
Ethiopia is interested in organizing the United Nations World Nutrition Summit in 2023, said President Sahle-Work Zewde in a statement. According to the President’s Office, Zewde outlined the government provision in a meeting with Gerda Verburg, the UN General Under-Secretary and coordinator of the Scaling-Up Nutrition Movement (SUN). Verburg recognized the government’s commitment to implement […]
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has committed 1.9 million U.S. dollars to Somalia in emergency funding to support health systems and communities faced with climate change disasters. The funds will cover food support for over 2,800 tuberculosis (TB) patients and 374 multidrug-resistant TB patients, the Global Fund said in a statement […]
1 December, 2022: AstraZeneca has announced a planned expansion of its access to healthcare programme, Healthy Heart Africa (HHA), to 10 new countries, starting in 2023. The programme, which is currently present in nine countries, is designed to contribute to the prevention and control of hypertension and decrease the burden of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) across […]
When health care workers Yasmin Samatar and Faraoli Adam were on the frontlines of the pandemic, they struggled to find personal protective equipment for Muslim women like them. So they launched Mawadda, a line of hygienic hijabs to help keep Muslim health care workers and patients safe in the hospital. Samatar and Adam, both 29, […]
The World Health Organization (WHO) said Thursday it has in partnership with Somalia managed to keep the HIV/Aids prevalence in the country on a steady decline from above 1 percent in 2013 to 0.10 percent in 2022. In a joint statement issued in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia to mark World Aids Day, the WHO […]
The World Health Organization (WHO) is committed to improving the standards of medical service delivery in the war-affected health facilities in northern Ethiopia. On Wednesday WHO donated a field vehicle and an ambulance to Afar Regional Health Bureau. The ambulance was procured with funding from the United Kingdom’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office as part of […]
28th November, Kampala – Plastic waste recycling in Uganda has been given a boost after leading logistics company DHL International (Uganda) signed a partnership with Plastic Recycling Industries, an initiative of Coca-Cola Beverages Uganda (CCBU), to supply it with plastic waste. Samuel Kangave, Manager of Plastic Recycling Industries, emphasized the company’s commitment to sustainable waste […]
The United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID) has provided over $672 million in drought response this year and remains devoted to the health, welfare, and prosperous future of the people of Ethiopia. Ambassador Tracey Ann Jacobson, Chargé d’Affaires of the U.S. Embassy in Addis Ababa, USAID Deputy Assistant Administrator (DAA) for Africa, Tyler Beckelman, […]
A leading medic and an expert in Africa Dr. Marian Warsame now says antimalarial drug resistance is an increasing concern in Africa. In a one-on-one interview with the World Health Organization media team, Dr. Warsame medical doctor by training who wrote her PhD’s thesis on antimalarial drug resistance in Somalia said more than 90% of […]
A senior doctor with the with Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Baidoa, Somalia has described the humanitarian situation in the country as catastrophic. Dr Asma Aweis Abdallah said the drought in the country- the worst in four decades has forced people to move from their homes to look for health and humanitarian assistance. […]