Health and medical news in Africa
Africa’s Silent Pandemic: Antimicrobial Resistance Is Killing More People Than HIV and Malaria Combined While the world’s attention remains fixed on emerging infectious disease threats, a quieter — and in many ways deadlier — crisis has taken root across the African continent. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR), the process by which bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites evolve […]
Health Ministry Announces Victory After 161,000 Suspected Cases and International Vaccination Campaign The Democratic Republic of Congo has officially declared the end of its two-year mpox outbreak, marking a significant public health victory after a disease that infected more than 161,000 people and claimed the lives of over 2,200 across the vast Central African nation.
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When Senegal’s parliament approved one of Africa’s most punitive anti-LGBT laws in March 2026, advocates for people living with HIV feared the worst. Their concerns are now being confirmed. New data suggests that access to testing, treatment, and prevention services for vulnerable populations has collapsed, threatening to unravel one of sub-Saharan Africa’s most celebrated HIV
Revolutionary CRISPR-based sickle cell therapies are raising unprecedented hope across Africa — the continent that carries 85 percent of the global disease burden — even as the $2.2 million price tag places cures forever out of reach for most patients.
When the United States froze its foreign aid programmes in January 2025, the shockwave hit Nigeria’s HIV treatment infrastructure hard and fast. The United States had been funding approximately 90 percent of Nigeria’s HIV treatment costs — leaving a fragile healthcare system suddenly exposed. Treatment centres shuttered. Drug supplies dwindled. And for the two million
