By Nasra Bishumba Suicide data released by the Rwanda Investigation Bureau (RIB)’s Spokesperson Thierry Murangira this past weekend provoked the need for open conversations about mental health issues. Murangira, who was appearing on a local radio show, said that a total of 576 people in Rwanda have committed suicide in the last two years. Broken […]
By Ibukun Oguntola Nigeria is prone to seasonal disease outbreaks and in the last few years, a series of outbreaks including monkeypox, measles, Lassa fever, yellow fever, cerebrospinal meningitis and cholera have threatened the nation’s public health security. In 2020, while responding to COVID-19, Nigeria was at the same time tackling what was reported as […]
PRESS RELEASE Number of people living with hypertension has doubled to 1.28 billion since 1990 World Health Organization and Imperial College London joint press release The number of adults aged 30-79 years with hypertension has increased from 650 million to 1.28 billion in the last thirty years, according to the first comprehensive global analysis of […]
A resurgence of Bubonic plague in Ituri province in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is putting young lives at risk, the UN Children’s Fund, UNICEF, warned on Tuesday. Poverty, conflict and displacement are contributing to the return of the centuries-old illness for the first time in more than a decade, and new […]
The vast majority of people with high blood pressure, or hypertension, – a serious medical condition that significantly increases the risks of heart, brain, kidney, and other diseases – live in low and middle-income countries, a World Health Organization (WHO) report released on Wednesday has revealed. The study, which was co-led by Imperial College London, […]
