Members of the 20th Chinese medical team for Malta offer health consultations to local residents in Cospicua, Malta, on March 9, 2025. Photographer Chen Wenxian By Xinhua News Agency The 20th Chinese medical team for Malta from the Mediterranean Regional Centre for Traditional Chinese Medicine provided free clinical services to residents in Cospicua, eastern Malta,

South African surgeons Dr Tim Forgan and Dr Imraan Mia use a robot called DaVinci to perform delicate operations at the Tygerberg hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, July 15, 2022. Reuters/Shelley Christians By The East African Africa will still need some six million surgeons to perform life-saving operations by 2030, a sign of the

By Xinhua News Agency Members of the 20th batch of the Chinese medical team provided free mobile medical services to people in three localities in northern and central Senegal from Monday to Thursday. The team, which includes doctors specializing in internal medicine, surgery, paediatrics and ophthalmology, also gave lectures and donated medical supplies to local

By Xinhua News Agency A Chinese medical team from Tianjin Eye Hospital on Friday officially launched a free cataract surgery campaign at Tirunesh Beijing Hospital in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia. Under the name of China-Ethiopia Brightness Journey, the Chinese medical team consisting of 10 senior ophthalmologists and nurses is set to conduct cataract

A Nigerian health official administers a mpox vaccination to a man. Credit: Photo Reuters By Xinhua News Agency Kenya’s Ministry of Health has urged citizens to strictly adhere to mpox preventive measures as the number of cases continues to rise, with children being particularly vulnerable. Principal Secretary in the Ministry of Health Mary Muthoni said

By The African Exponent Africa is known for its rich culture and diversity, and some countries are leading the way with high fertility rates in 2024. But what exactly is a fertility rate? It’s a way of measuring how many children, on average, a woman is likely to have over her lifetime. It may sound

The injectable HIV drug is administered every two months and is designed to prevent transmission through any form of exposure. By Daily Monitor Uganda’s Ministry of Health has announced plans to introduce a long-acting injectable HIV prevention drug, known as Cabotegravir (CAB-LA), from September. Dr Herbert Kadama, the ministry’s PrEP coordinator, said the country expects

By Anadolu Agency The World Health Organization (WHO) regional director for Europe warned on Thursday that mpox could spread to other countries after Sweden confirmed the first case of infectious viral disease outside of Africa. Sweden early Thursday reported the first case of the more contagious variant of mpox outside of Africa, just a day

Medical staff enter a quarantine area in Lobaya, Central African Republic, on October 18, 2018, following an outbreak of the monkeypox virus By Xinhua News Agency The East African Community (EAC) on Monday called on its eight member states to educate their citizens on how to protect themselves and prevent the spread of mpox (monkeypox),

Vials of the JYNNEOS smallpox and monkeypox vaccine are placed on a table during a clinic offered by the Pima County Department of Public Health at Abrams Public Health Center in Tucson, Arizona, U.S., August 20, 2022. Photographer Rebecca Noble By Reuters Republic of the Congo has declared an epidemic of mpox after 19 cases