Health | Africafrique

Kenya : How doctors ‘performed brain surgery on wrong patient’

Four Kenyan medics have been suspended after cutting open the skull of the wrong patient at a hospital in Nairobi.

Listeriosis in South Africa has killed 172 people since the start of last year, officials say, as the country struggles

The UN is voicing alarm over the spread of HIV in Egypt, where the number of new cases is growing

The World Health Organization said Tuesday it has completed a massive cholera vaccination campaign in restive northeastern Nigeria, where the

The Chadian government says more than 50 people have died of cholera in the country since authorities declared an outbreak

A three-pronged man-made antibody, created by French drugmaker Sanofi and U.S. scientists, could offer a new way to treat or

The nicotine in e-cigarette vapor may cause adrenaline levels to spike in the heart, potentially increasing risk of heart attack

A team of researchers at Wits University in Johannesburg have come out of seemingly nowhere and directly connected a human

AIDS claimed a million lives in 2016, almost half the 2005 toll that marked the peak of the deadly epidemic,