New Ebola case confirmed in eastern Congo, linked to previous outbreak
Testing showed the case was genetically linked to the 2018-2020 outbreak in North Kivu and Ituri provinces, which killed nearly 2,300 people, said a statement from Placide Mbala, chief of the Pathogen Genomics Laboratory at INRB.
‘I am still waiting’: Health system fails cancer patients
For cancer patients, the situation is dismal. Broken-down machines and an acute shortage of oncologists result in patients waiting months, sometimes years to be treated, public health experts say — patients for whom a week could be the difference between life and death.
Legalise abortion
The World Health Organization (WHO) notes that six out of 10 of all unintended pregnancies end up in abortion.
Ebola outbreak officially over in DR Congo
Four people have died since this outbreak – the country’s 14th since 1976 – was declared in April in the western city of Mbandaka.
South Africa confirms first monkeypox case, not linked to travel
The patient was a 30-year-old male from Johannesburg who had no travel history, “meaning that this cannot be attributed to having been acquired outside South Africa,” Phaahla told a news conference.
Tedros re-elected as head of World Health Organization
The vote by secret ballot, announced by Ahmed Robleh Abdilleh from Djibouti at a major annual meeting, was seen as a formality since Tedros was the only candidate running.
