Though more than 200 million people worldwide are affected by schistosomiasis (bilharzia), Africa bears the biggest brunt reporting nine out of ten cases globally. As such, a multi-sectoral approach ...

Climate change, sub-division of land and ongoing infrastructure development threaten Kenya’s biodiversity, a 2024 study ...

Improving media coverage through nuanced reporting on road safety is not just about better journalism but a critical step ...

Trump cast doubt on the WHO’s independence, claiming it was compromised by “inappropriate political influence” from Member ...

The harmonized anticipatory action approach is a shift from reactive crisis response to smarter, dignified, and cost-effective solutions instead of waiting for disaster to strike and cause damage and ...

Unlike chemical pesticides, which can harm beneficial insects and disrupt ecosystems, TELA maize targets only the fall ...

Alex Ndyabakira, head of air quality monitoring at Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA),notes that the technology, put into action for the first time this month, uses an AI Air Quality Index with ...

In a historic move, Uganda, in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO) and other global partners, has launched the first-ever clinical trial for a vaccine targeting the Sudan species of ...

The Kenya Police Coast Region and Mombasa Inspectorate, for instance, received specialized training and radar speed guns ...

The researchers found that contraceptives, particularly hormonal methods, reduced the incidence of absenteeism across all age groups, indicating that menstrual symptoms such as heavy bleeding and pain ...

Guinea has eeliminated the human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) or sleeping sickness as a public health problem. It has managed to control the gambiense form of the disease to below the World Health ...