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  • A strike on Sunday evening at Riyadh's international airport has resulted in more injuries, and the number of fatalities has increased since over a dozen people were killed at the main aviation facility the day before.
  • The Ansar Allah Houthis and Yemeni government forces are engaged in fierce fighting over the vital city of Taiz.
  • A human rights group reported on Sunday that airstrikes targeting artisanal gold miners in a disputed border area between Sudan and Egypt had killed at least 72 workers.
  • Pope Leo XIV said on Sunday that he will have surgery in the "next few days" after medical professionals found a nodule on his lung.
  • The reform agenda of nationalist Prime Minister Janez Jansa, which the opposition has called "authoritarian," suffered a setback when Slovenians narrowly rejected a government bill in a referendum on Sunday.
  • After his social media posts were purportedly blocked on the company's platforms, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva accused tech giant Meta of meddling in the election on Saturday.

Category: Health Matters

January 11, 2019

Ebola Infected New Born Baby in...

Historically, there have been very low survival rates for pregnant women infected with Ebola, and for their babies

December 12, 2018

Ebola Effected Children in DRC

UNICEF and its partners have so far identified more than 400 children who have been orphaned or left unaccompanied because of the virus

December 1, 2018

World AIDS Day: Take Preventive Measures

The report said that three quarters of people living with HIV knew their HIV status in 2017, compared to just two thirds in 2015, and 21.7 million people living with HIV, or 59 percent, had access to antiretroviral therapy, up from 17.2 million in 2015

November 13, 2018

Uganda’s Ebola Survivors Recall Disease’s Horrors...

As the Democratic Republic of Congo battles the spread of the deadly Ebola virus, just across the border Ugandan survivors of a 2007 outbreak are reminded of the near-death experience they went through

November 11, 2018

Uganda Readies to Stave Off Ebola...

Ebola has infected 319 people in the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo since August, killing 198. 

November 4, 2018

Fathers’ Exercise Impacts the Health of...

Many people know that a woman’s health, including her diet and exercise habits, can impact the health of her baby even before she gets pregnant. But, until recently, little was known about a father’s diet and exercise choices.

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