West Africa

Dr Matshidiso Moeti, WHO Regional Director for Africa, recently visited the Coyah Ebola Treatment Centre. The Centre, situated 50km from Conakry, was opened on 31 December 2014. It has a capacity of 100 beds, 50 […]

The “Rescue Team”, an association set up by Ebola survivors to help fellow survivors trying to put their lives back together again, is now exploring ways to contribute to the Ebola outbreak response in Sierra […]

For far too long, women and girls in Africa have faced discrimination and inequalities in the workforce which have not only hurt them, but their families, communities and their countries as a whole. As we […]

Folks, the carnage being wreaked on Nigeria by the dreaded Boko Haram terrorists are now beyond belief. Forget about control. I am deeply worried at the high incidence of devastation of limb and property while […]

Ebola has crippled the provision of treatment and care to people living with HIV/AIDS in Liberia, according to health workers and patients. “We cannot get treatment normally now because of the outbreak of the Ebola […]

 – Former Director of the NIH Vaccine Research Center to Spearhead Sanofi Efforts, and Contribution to Global Fight against Ebola – As part of its contribution to the global response to the Ebola epidemic, Sanofi […]

As of this writing, the World Health Organization (WHO) had reported that at least 4,500 West Africans had died as a direct result of contracting the raging deadly Ebola Virus. According to WHO officials, an […]

Reports of the death of a patient at the Dominase Seventh-Day Adventist Hospital, that may well turn out to be the first medically confirmed case of the presence of the Ebola virus in the country, […]