Merck Foundation advances Healthcare Capacity through 2600+ Medical Scholarships across 52 Countries with African and Asian First Ladies
The selection for each scholarship will be based on request by First Lady Office, Ministry of Health and / or...
Health
Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) Launches the African Strategic Advisory Group on Genomics
The Group will support Africa CDC in ensuring that genomics is deployed ethically, responsibly, and for maximum public good, with...
Deaths and Hospitalisations Raise Alarm in Meningitis Outbreak Linked to University of Kent
Couple of young people have died and others remain seriously ill following a meningitis outbreak linked to the University of...
African Development Bank Group funds regional health resilience drive in Southern Africa
Approved on 3 March 2026, the financing from the concessional window of the African Development Bank Group, will fund the...
Russia/China Expand Partnership in Personalised-Cancer Treatment, Rousing Global Pharma Competition
Russia and China are strengthening cooperation in personalised cancer treatment, to reshape clinical care, also the economics and geopolitics of...
DR Congo’s Equateur Province Turned the Tide on Mpox: From Fear to Hope
In Mbandaka, the riverine capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Equateur province, the wards of the Mama wa Elikya...
Stem Cell Research-Breakthrough That Restores Sight: Redefining Hope the Worldwide
A pioneering stem cell therapy that restores vision using a patient’s own cells is being hailed as a major step...
Mercy Ships Tackling Surgery Crisis in Sierra Leone, West Africa: with Dr. Leo Cheng Lifesaving Surgeries that Transform Even the Smallest of Lives
In FREETOWN, Sierra Leone, November 3, 2025 - when 10-month-old baby Memunatu was carried into the Global Mercy™, the world’s...
New Drug Duo Offers Hope: Prostate Cancer Death Risk-Cut by Over 40%
A new glimmer of hope has emerged in the fight against advanced prostate cancer, and it comes not from a...
First Mosquitoes in Iceland, Signal a Warning to the World: When the North Lost its Buzz-Free Haven
In generations, Icelanders have proudly shared an odd boast: their island, in the midst of glaciers and geysers, was one...
