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Health and Well-being

Ghana’s community nurses deliver child health care amid COVID-19

By WHO
Health and Well-being

Lifestyle diseases pose new burden for Africa

Diabetes, cancer, heart and respiratory diseases will be the leading killers by 2030

By Zipporah Musau
Health and Well-being

Mental illness: Invisible but devastating

Superstitution often blamed for acute mental health diseases

By Lansana Gberie
Health and Well-being

Public health schemes: Getting it right

Ghana grapples with making health care universally accessible

By Franck Kuwonu
Health and Well-being

India’s medical tourism gets Africans’ attention

Many lured by affordable treatment, state-of-the art equipment, top-notch doctors and follow-up care

By Pavithra Rao
Health and Well-being

Gains made in fight against malaria

Africa is finally making headway in its decades-long fight against malaria

By Amelia Tan
Health and Well-being

We can improve health systems in Africa

— Dr. Matshidiso Moeti

By Tefo Pheage
Health and Well-being

Taking health services to remote areas

Mobile camel clinics, motorbike ambulances and other innovations for reaching rural folk

By Kwamboka Oyaro