Health & Medicine

The fate of hundreds of TB and HIV/AIDS patients hangs in the balance after a district official in Shibis District allegedly ordered the demolition of a government medical facility offering…

By Fauxile Kibet Health Ministers and representatives from Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya and South Sudan Sunday signed a joint statement in Garissa, Northern Kenya committing to work together to eradicate polio…

The largest cholera vaccination drive in history targeting two million people across Africa is underway, the United Nations announced on Monday, in response to a series of recent deadly outbreaks…

There have been allegations the suspects were spreading HIV through the injections Police in Mogadishu have arrested a woman suspected of injecting an auto-rickshaw driver with allegedly contaminated blood adding…

By UNSOM PUBLIC INFORMATION In 2005, Dr. Abdirahman Ali Awale – or Dr. ‘Habeeb’ as he is commonly known – was walking down a street in the Somali capital when…

A new round of measles vaccination campaign will this week target 3.8 million children in south-central regions and Somaliland, UNICEF and WHO have said. The two UN bodies said Monday…

Three cases of a polio strain have been detected in Banaadir region, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said calling for increased vaccination campaigns. WHO said Friday Circulation of vaccine-derived…

Aid agencies in Somaliland have termed the recent government directive banning certain forms of female genital mutilation counter-productive in eradicating the practice. Save the Children, CARE International and International Rescue…

First emergency responders in Mogadishu this week got a first-hand experience on handling dead bodies during disasters in the first ever training conducted by the International Committee of the Red…