Tanzania’s President Samia Suluhu Hassan has expressed concern over the high birth rate in the East African country and urged citizens to take up birth control measures. It is a…
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Uganda: Two districts under three-week Ebola lockdown
A three-week lockdown has been declared in two districts of Uganda as the country battles an Ebola outbreak. Bars, nightclubs, places of worship and entertainment venues will be closed in…
UK: Nurse in court over allegations of poisoning babies with insulin
Lucy Letby has been accused of murdering five baby boys and two girls, and attempting to murder 10 other babies at Countess of Chester hospital. Nick Johnson KC, prosecuting, said…
Gambia: Police investigate deaths linked to Indian cough syrup
Police in The Gambia are investigating the deaths of 66 children, which have been linked to four brands of imported Indian cough syrup. Senior officials from the Medicine Control Agency…
Gambia: Death of sixty-six children linked to Indian-made cough syrups
A global alert has been issued over four cough syrups after the World Health Organization (WHO) warned they could be linked to the deaths of 66 children in The Gambia.…
UK: Fight against monkeypox rages on
The UK’s monkeypox cases continuing to fall, says one of Britain’s leading infectious disease modellers. Prof Neil Ferguson believes vaccines and vigilance have helped drive cases down from a peak…
Uganda: Ebola outbreak
The health authorities in Uganda declared an outbreak of Ebola after a case of the relatively rare Sudan strain was confirmed in Mubende district in the central part of the…
Greenland: Demand for answers over Danish birth control scandal
Denmark and Greenland have formally agreed to launch a two-year investigation into historic birth control practices carried out for many years on Inuit Greenlanders by Danish doctors. Thousands of Inuit…
India: Bihar IAS officer mocks schoolgirl’s sanitary pad request
A female civil servant’s response to a schoolgirl’s request for free sanitary pads has sparked backlash in India. The teenager made the request at a workshop organised with Unicef in…
Pakistan: Chinese national shot dead at Karachi dental clinic
An armed attacker posing as a dental patient has killed a man and injured two other people at a clinic in Pakistan’s southern port city of Karachi. All three were…