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Ethiopia has suspended the importation of medicines from 11 Egyptian pharmaceutical manufacturers after they failed to meet the country’s health criteria. Ethiopia’s Ministry of Health suspended trade with the companies after officials visited Egypt recently to inspect their facilities,” Middle… Read more ›

Ethiopia is the latest African nation to record cases of yellow fever cases following an outbreak of the disease in Angola last year. According to the United Nations, about 22 suspected cases of yellow fever have been reported in Ethiopia.… Read more ›

CONAKRY – The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Friday that two people have become infected with the Ebola virus in Guinea. This revelation comes a few days after medical studies conducted on male Ebola survivors showed that the virus… Read more ›

IRIN (Addis Ababa) After decades battling high maternal death rates – at least a third of which were due to botched abortions – Ethiopia took a stand: it prioritized newborn and maternal health, and in 2005 it relaxed its abortion… Read more ›

Three medical groups have delivered a petition to President Yoweri Musuveni in protest against the country’s recently approved HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control Bill. The Global Network for People Living with HIV, Uganda Network on Law, Ethics and HIV/AIDS as well… Read more ›

More than 80 people have been reported dead and about 175 hospitalised after imbibing alcohol laced with unhealthily high levels of methanol this week. Although reports of negative side effects to highly patronized home-made alcohol brands are allegedly common in… Read more ›

County officials have unveiled a plan to undertake a major clean up exercise on the Nairobi dam. The Chairman of the Nairobi Dam Restoration Taskforce, Bartonjo Chesaina, who divulged the news to the media today, revealed that the dam will… Read more ›

The Ugandan government has agreed to some compromises to appease its western partners after the country’s enactment of a contentious law against homosexuality in February led to aid cuts. According to a report by The East African, the government has… Read more ›

The East African Community has initiated a multi-million Shillings project aimed at harmonizing medicine registration and ensuring access to effective and safe cures for the most prevalent illnesses in the region. The three-year Medicines Registration Harmonization Project comes following about two… Read more ›

Uganda’s President Yoweri Musuveni, speaking at the 10th anniversary of the Pan-African Parliament (PAP) in Midrand, South Africa on Tuesday, has described the move by several Europeans nations to freeze aid to his country due to its enactment of an… Read more ›

A public-private alliance of several agencies primarily created to support vaccination campaigns in developing countries, GAVI, has announced that it will facilitate immunization drives against cervical cancer in Uganda, Rwanda and Uzbekistan. The Chief Executive Officer of the alliance, Dr.… Read more ›

In the past few years, many African nations have been engaged in raucous public debates over the adoption of genetically modified (GM) crops. While lawmakers and pro-GM scientists have reasoned that the biologically altered seedlings are resistant to many common… Read more ›

Monday was designated a “Global Day of Action” by homosexual activists across the world against Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill, which is currently awaiting presidential signature to become law. While international activists such as Amnesty International campaigned online, lesbian, gay, bisexual and… Read more ›

Medical experts say cases of the harrowing Chikugunya disease have been recorded in Uganda. Although this is not the first time the mosquito-borne virus has been found in Uganda, or the East African region,  it’s resurgence comes in the wake of increased awareness of its debilitating effects.… Read more ›

The Ethiopian House of Representatives has reportedly ratified the World Health Authority’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), which places limitations on the sale and use of cigarettes. Besides a ban on smoking in public, the proclamation also includes plans… Read more ›

Teff grows predominantly in Ethiopia, as well as Eritrea, and has been one of the basic staple food for people of these nations for thousands of years. Teff is a small grain, about the size of a poppy seed, it… Read more ›

After a rather eventful campaign, in which both the public and doctors are guilty of causing delays, Kenya’s Ministry of Health on Wednesday completed a nationwide polio immunization exercise. In total, about 8 million children under 5 years of age… Read more ›

Less than a month after calling off a much publicized strike, nurses in Kenya are threatening to take action once again if County authorities do not settle their unpaid salaries by Friday, January 10th, 2014. The nurses, represented by the… Read more ›

India’s Apollo Group of Hospitals will open its first clinic in Tanzania and East Africa within the next four months. Apollo Hospitals Enterprises Limited and the Tanzanian Government had earlier signed a preliminary joint venture agreement to setup a hospital… Read more ›

Kenyan officials have revealed that all health workers who are still on strike, despite the court order requesting them to resume work issued last week, will not be paid for the month of December. Health workers across Kenya have been… Read more ›

Several Israeli authorities have criticized a decision by medical professionals from the Magen David Adom (Israel’s national Red Cross and blood bank service) to refuse blood donation by an Ethiopian Jewish MP on Wednesday. Pnina Tamano-Shata, a representative of the… Read more ›