DRC offers free maternity care to cut death rate among mothers and babies
Healthcare workers say clinics are being overwhelmed by women seeking help, amid lack of staff and facilities to back programme Pregnant women across the Democratic...
Category : Global health
MSF suspends surgery at Khartoum hospital after Sudanese military blocks supplies
Charity says that medication and materials at Bashair teaching hospital have run out and surgical team is being withdrawn The medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières...
Climate crisis is ‘not gender neutral’: UN calls for more policy focus on women
Only a third of countries with climate crisis plans include access to sexual, maternal and newborn health services, UNFPA report finds Only a third of...
South Africa launches ‘unprecedented’ investigation of Johnson & Johnson over TB drug prices
Competition watchdog probes claims of profiteering by US drugmaker in country where tuberculosis is biggest killer South Africa’s Competition Commission will investigate the American drugmaker...
Eliminate malaria once and for all or it will come back stronger, UN warned
World faces ‘malaria emergency’ from resistance to insecticides, waning efficacy of drugs, funding shortfalls and climate change African leaders have warned that the world is...
Civilians targeted in war-torn Khartoum as poor and elderly remain trapped
Latest atrocities in Sudan war include the shelling of house of traditional healer, who died with her children and neighbours People trapped in the Sudanese...
Hospital detentions for new mothers challenged in Ugandan court
Two cases to be heard this month could serve as legal precedent to outlaw the holding of patients against their will for unpaid bills Two...
Polio scare hits Malawi with 17 possible cases, just as huge vaccine drive ends
Cyclone Freddy cited as contributing factor in feared new outbreak that follows inoculation of 8 million children Malawi is investigating at least 17 suspected polio...
Peru violated rights of 13-year-old girl repeatedly raped by father, UN rules
Authorities denied pregnant Indigenous girl her legal right to an abortion and ‘re-victimised’ her, UN child rights committee says Peru violated the rights of a...
Hundreds of families mourn in Peru as children fall victim to dengue outbreak
Death toll mounts in northern Piura region after torrential rain and floods lead to worst ever epidemic In a stream of white, mourners walked behind...
