Health

G7 leaders have reached consensus on the need for a shared approach to China selling exports at unfairly low prices and to human rights abuses, a senior official in the U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration said on Saturday. The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the leaders of the …

Hospitals in Democratic Republic of Congo’s capital Kinshasa are “overwhelmed” by a rise in COVID-19 infections, President Felix Tshisekedi said on Saturday, as the country was hit by a third wave of the disease.Like many African countries, Congo has officially registered relatively few cases. But the virus has killed a …

Oluwasina Phillip The African Development Bank and the Government of Ethiopia have signed an agreement for a $31m grant to boost health and nutrition for children under the age of five. The African Development Fund’s Board of Directors approved funding for the government’s Multi-Sectoral Approach for Stunting Reduction Project (MASReP) …

Oluwasina Phillip The Association of African Development Finance Institutions on Monday task African Head of State and international organizations to finance the needed transitions and transformation of African economies  In the context of the Covid-19 crisis recovery, it said efforts should center on achieving sustainable, resilient and equitable development. There …

The African Union’s health agency urged countries on the continent to increase testing for the coronavirus as more states report different variants of the disease. Testing dropped 21% last week, John Nkengasong, director of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, said in an online briefing Thursday. Six African …

Africa’s biggest lender sees opportunity in both its core South African market and the rest of the continent amid a recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic. “South Africa is fiercely competitive,” Standard Bank Group Ltd. Chief Executive Officer Sim Tshabalala said in an interview on Thursday. “We have to continue making …

Ebuka Daniel The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission has begun probe into circumstances surrounding the controversial deaths of Mrs. Peju Ugboma and Ms. Omolara Omoyajowo. The Commission said that initial information gathered by it was sufficient to open  active investigation into the death of both patients. The two died …

Oluwasina Phillip A multi-stakeholder solution to tackle funding challenges of the health sector is being galvanized by the federal government, in its efforts to guarantee health security, which in turn boosts economic growth. To this end, the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs Zainab Ahmed organised a one-day …

With Billions of Naira spent in Nigeria’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, including on health facilities, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has made private laboratories richer to the tune of over N6.54bn for conducting tests on international travellers. Findings by PRNigeria reveals that the NCDC mandated travellers to …

The South African government said it plans to vaccinate about 50 million people representing 67% of its population before the end of the current year. The info was given on January 3 by the health minister Dr. Zweli Mkhize during a press conference on the national vaccine rollout strategy. The …