Category: Medicine

AN ethnic nationalist paramilitary group has raped, robbed and subjected women to physical and verbal assaults. This as the crisis in northern Ethiopia spills to neighbouring regions. The Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) is accused of the crimes as well as destroying and looting medical facilities as the fighting moved to the Afar and Amhara […]

8th November, 2021 (Entebbe, Uganda): The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) inaugurated the regional Cross Border Health Digitalization Initiative under the EU-IGAD COVID-19 regional COVID-19 response in Entebbe, Uganda. The meeting was opened by Dr. Ahmed Bashir the lead on digital innovations at IGAD, on behalf of the Director of Health Social Division (HSD), Madame Fathia Alwan. […]

COVID-19 has had a devastating impact on prisoners. By March 2021, an estimated 527,000 prisoners globally had contracted the virus, a number that has continued to grow as the pandemic goes on. This, unfortunately, is not surprising. There are longstanding issues within prisons — overcrowding, inadequate medical treatment and a lack of ventilation to name just a few — that […]

The staff and medical professionals working in the College of Health Sciences (CHS) of Addis Ababa University (AAU) donated blood under the motto of `Our Blood for Our People` at a ceremony held in the College yesterday, the 8th of November 2021. Dr. Rahel Argaw, Medical Service Director at CHS, Black Lion Specialized Hospital, in her […]