MASERU – After-effects of the January 29 reinstatement of the US government’s Mexico City Policy by President Donald Trump are starting to be felt in the Southern African poverty-stricken tiny kingdom of Lesotho. Under this policy, foreign non-governmental organizations that receive family
Zimbabwe has approved the use of an injectable form of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) called cabotegravir to help reduce the risk of HIV in sexually active women. The injectable form is administered every two months and has been tested in clinical trials in Zimbabwe and five other Sub-Saharan African countries since 2018. Over 3,000 women from
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GENEVA – Washington and Brussels joined with other Western capitals on Friday to call for “full commitment” from the World Health Organization to reform, after a damning report detailed rape and sexual abuse by its workers sent to fight Ebola in DR Congo. “The governments of Australia, Canada, the European Union and its member states,
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The World Health Organization has temporarily paused the use of anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine as part of a global effort to find a cure for Covid-19. The organisation’s executive board made the decision following a study published in the medical journal The Lancet on 20 May that showed that the drug increased mortality rates among Covid-19
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Health officials in eastern Congo have documented the first relapse in the current Ebola epidemic, the World Health Organization said on Friday The Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo has so far infected more than 3,300 people and killed more than 2,200 since the middle of last year, making it the second-worst on record.
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Researchers say they have removed HIV from the DNA of mice, an achievement the scientists say could be an early step toward an elusive cure for humans. The breakthrough, detailed earlier this week in a study credited to more than 30 scientists from Temple University and the University of Nebraska Medical Center, was made possible
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The World Health Organization (WHO) should and is likely to declare an international emergency over the Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo that has now spread to Uganda, experts said as a WHO advisory panel met on Friday. Congo’s epidemic is the second worst worldwide since West Africa’s Ebola outbreak in 2014-16, with
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A nine-year-old infected with HIV at birth has spent most of their life without needing any treatment, say doctors in South Africa. The child, whose identity is being protected, was given a burst of treatment shortly after birth. They have since been off drugs for eight-and-a-half years without symptoms or signs of active virus. The
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The World Health Organisation (WHO) says that cholera outbreak in Yemen has claimed 1,500 lives and sickened about 246,000 people since April. WHO representative in Yemen Nevio Zagaria said in a news conference on Saturday in the Yemeni capital Sanaa that the epidemic has hit 21 provinces out of Yemen’s 22 provinces, stressing that the
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Enjoying regular sex can help reduce the risk of developing heart disease – but the news isn’t so great for women. Research found having sex several times a week can slash levels of homocysteine in men, whereas women benefit far less from regular romps. The harmful chemical is found in the blood and can trigger
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Joining the mile high club may sound really cool and sexy, but the reality is all too often two people quietly, awkwardly banging away pressed up against a sink and praying that they don’t accidentally unlock the door. Add to that the lingering scent of urine and cleaning fluids, and it makes sense that the
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