Health and medicine

By the tip of the yr, Morocco hopes to launch a marketing campaign to vaccinate 20 million adults in opposition to covid-19 in just some months. This vaccine is just not necessary, however could also be vital, particularly for journey outdoors Morocco. In a spot the place vaccination has been a standard observe for many years, many Moroccans welcome it and hope to quickly emerge from the well being…

Mali has seen a worrying enhance in coronavirus circumstances for a number of weeks and fortiori within the final three days. From a handful of recent circumstances, we have now grown to over 150 per day. These figures are largely underestimated as a result of very low take a look at capability, however which give a measure of acceleration.…

Within the Ivory Coast, the NGO Deal with Africa works to convey messages about sexual well being via soccer workouts. HIV, STIs, gender-based violence, genital mutilation or entry to contraception, many critical and critical subjects are mentioned with main faculty college students in a great temper and with a bullet within the foot. in a main faculty in Grand-Bassam.…

Nurses have gone out into the country to condemn working conditions that have become unbearable. Nearly 10,000 white coats marched in Tunis to demand a profound reform of a health system at the end of its rope. as reported from Tunis, Michel PicardAnger is felt in the long procession that links the Ministry of Health to the…

This Tuesday, December 8, is declared a day of anger by doctors in Tunisia. Only minimum services should be provided at the country's public hospitals. The Danish Medicines Agency's advice calls for a profound reform of the currently harmful health system. as reported from Tunis, Michel PicardThe accidental death last week, in…

The regions of South Africa in the Eastern Cape and the Western Cape are beginning to see a new emergence of Covid-19 cases, as the country now has almost 4,000 new cases per day, twice as many as in November. Despite the government's repeated warnings, there is a relaxation in the barrier gestures. as reported from…

University of Diego-Suarez, in the far north of the country, a new source of Covid-19 contamination. For several months, the Big Island has had few new cases and the state of health was lifted in mid-October. But in a few days, 83 cases were identified in the capital of the Diana region. A situation that raises concerns that the virus will re-emerge.…

Several unions for public health care workers are demanding a new mobilization day, Tuesday 8 December. Hundreds of doctors gathered in Tunis on Friday. This protest movement after the death of a young colleague this week in the hospital. It is the death of a 27-year-old doctor that causes this anger. On Thursday, he fell…

The Central African Republic is establishing a hemodialysis heart and a medical imaging heart specifically geared up with a scanner. A improbable first for the nation which might thus enhance the care of the sick. as reported from Bangui, Charlotte cossetDialysis, scanners, mammography, dental panoramas ... The hospital heart…

MSF cancels support for two health centers in Kimbi and Baraka, in southern Kivu. A decision taken after a first withdrawal in July 2020 by a large part of the NGO's staff in the territory of Fizi, in the same province. Humanitarians were the target of several violent incidents in 2020. They can no longer carry out their…