Health and medicine

The baptism day of Malian "nonuplets" born final Tuesday in Morocco. 5 "featherweight" and quite a bit for early ladies and 4 boys. Their situation is "steady" based on the medical workforce on the non-public clinic Aïn Borja in Casablanca the place they have been born by caesarean part precisely seven days in the past. A high-risk being pregnant that required the evacuation of the mom to Morocco, an…

After months of delay, Madagascar lastly obtained its first anti-Covid-19 vaccines on Saturday morning, Could 7, via the UN's Covax program. That is the primary cargo of 250,000 doses of Covishield, which was obtained on the tarmac at Antananarivo Airport by a number of UN officers, chancellors and members of the federal government however with out the President of the Republic Andry Rajoelina.…

After this extraordinary beginning on Tuesday, Could 4, in Morocco, "mom and child" really feel "in line with gynecologist-obstetrician from the non-public clinic Aïn Borja. The mom, Halima Cissé, had been evacuated from Mali at the tip of March. 9 kids born alive from the identical being pregnant, a primary made attainable by the mobilization of a number of docs from Timbuktu to Casablanca by way of Bamako who did all the pieces to offer…

One third of Ghana's inhabitants is obese and one in ten Ghanaians is obese. By way of a wealthy food plan and sedentarization of life in city areas. Our correspondent in Accra,From the top of the morning, the streets of Accra are stuffed with the scent of the dishes we cook dinner: fried fish in stalls, sautéed plantain…

One in ten people in the world is overweight, three times more than 50 years ago. That's a new fact, obesity kills more than starvation. What is the responsibility of manufacturers, food marketing, public authorities? .

Unused vaccines that acquire mud on a shelf ready to be administered, this isn't about Covid, however about all different vaccines towards ailments equivalent to polio and measles. On account of the pandemic, vaccination campaigns are at a standstill in some fifty nations. At stake, the WHO explains the well being of a whole bunch of hundreds of thousands of kids, notably in Africa.…

Malaria killed almost 400,000 people worldwide in 2019, the vast majority of children under 5 years of age. Although lethal, this parasite can be treated with combined artemisinin treatments, also called dual therapy. But the problem with these treatments is that the parasites tend to resist them more and more often. So some researchers are working on developing new drugs and trials are currently being conducted on 1,600 children under the age of 5 in Mali, Ghana, Gabon and Benin ... The clinical trials conducted in these…

The World Health Organization (WHO) and the African Union (AU) each have their own strategies, but some countries do not wait for them to obtain directly from manufacturers, receive donations or produce locally under foreign patents. Two countries in Africa, Egypt and Nigeria, have decided to fund research to find their own vaccine against coronavirus. The Egyptian…

Trafficking in counterfeit medicines in Africa has increased, especially since the 1980s. On 17 and 18 February 2020, the Lomé Declaration obliged seven countries on the continent to impose criminal sanctions to criminalize trafficking in human beings for substandard and counterfeit medicines. Last week, this topic was at the center of an online debate, initiated by the associations Les Afriques vous…

An epidemic of Rift Valley fever, a viral disease that mainly affects cattle and can also infect humans, is currently affecting zebo herds in several regions of the country. It is transmitted by mosquito bites, the virus' agent. The Malagasy authorities have taken action. The epidemic began in February and the Pasteur Institute confirmed several outbreaks of the disease in early April. A total of 473 dead zebras were listed, out of a total of about 19,000 animals for four regions, or 35 affected municipalities in the…