High street pharmacies are on red alert as chemists run low on stock
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteHigh street pharmacies are struggling to get hold of children’s painkillers as a new wave of drugs shortages affects patients. Read More
Marburg virus: Malaysians returning from Africa urged to undergo tests
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteHealth minister Dr Zaliha Mustafa has advised Malaysians who have just returned from Africa to undergo tests at hospitals or clinics if…
The story of how Swahili became Africa's most spoken language
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteOnce just an obscure island dialect of an African Bantu tongue, Swahili has evolved into Africa’s most internationally recognised language. Read More
WHO: 116 Million People in Africa Living with Mental Health Conditions
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Reading Time: < 1 minute The World Health Organisation (WHO) has estimated that more than 116 million people were living with mental health conditions before the…
Africa posts 26% reduction in death from Tuberculosis - WHO
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe World Health Organisation (WHO) says that there has been a 26 per cent reduction in Tuberclosis (TB) deaths between 2015 and…
Eight new cases of Ebola-like virus reported as double outbreak hits Africa
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteEquatorial Guinea has confirmed another eight cases of the deadly and “highly virulent” Marburg virus, bringing its total to nine since an…
Brazil moves to imprison anti-vaxxers, SA health officials believe its unlikely to ever happen in SA
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteSunday marks the third anniversary of the Declaration of the State of National Disaster in South Africa and the subsequent Covid-19 lockdown. Read More
Britain’s diet is more deadly than Covid
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhat do you think is the biggest cause of avoidable illness and death in this country? Smoking? Drinking? Drugs? Wrong on every…
Activist in tea firms sexual abuse case found dead at home
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteA key player in a case by current and former workers who were sexually exploited at two multinational tea companies in the…
TB kills 71 people every day in Tanzania, says Majaliwa
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Reading Time: < 1 minutePrime Minister Kassim Majaliwa said yesterday that Tanzania loses 71 people each day because of tuberculosis (TB), amounting to 25,800 deaths per…