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News Cameroon » Health: Cameroon Sees 100% Increase in Mental Health Care Seekers

News channel or source: https://www.voanews.com/a/cameroon-sees-100-increase-in-mental-health-care-seekers/6783395.html

Published on: Sunday 09 October 2022

Officials in Cameroon say the number of mental health patients in the country has more than doubled in the past year, as the country deals with a separatist crisis in its western regions and Boko ...

News Cameroon » Health: Life-saving malaria vaccine rolls out in Cameroon

News channel or source: https://www.npr.org/2024/01/25/1226791256/vaccine-reduces-all-kinds-of-deaths-among-children-not-just-malaria-deaths

Published on: Wednesday 24 January 2024

The Central African nation of Cameroon kicked off the world's first routine childhood vaccine program for malaria this week. At a hospital in Cameroon, health care workers this week started giving ...

News Cameroon » Health: Nursing Professor Leads Effort to Improve Health of Moms and Babies in Cameroon

News channel or source: https://www.uml.edu/news/stories/2022/cameroon-infant-health.aspx

Published on: Thursday 10 November 2022

A new study led by Assoc. Prof. Comfort Enah is evaluating whether a system that was designed to improve maternal and newborn health in rural America decades ago can bring similar benefits to Cameroon ...

News Cameroon » Health: Better Access to Health Care for all Cameroonians

News channel or source: https://www.worldbank.org/en/country/cameroon/publication/better-health-care-access-for-all-cameroonians

Published on: Thursday 26 September 2013

The sixth issue of Cameroon Economic Update, focused on the subject of health, suggests a few avenues for improving Cameroonians’ access to health care In Cameroon, health statistics have not improved ...

News Cameroon » Health: Child health improves in Cameroon one year after malaria vaccine introduction

News channel or source: https://www.afro.who.int/countries/cameroon/news/child-health-improves-cameroon-one-year-after-malaria-vaccine-introduction

Published on: Tuesday 21 January 2025

Yaounde – Ndzie Daniela and Ngah Daniel, twins, were the first children to receive the malaria vaccine when it was introduced in Cameroon on 22 January 2024. They have now received three doses of the ...

News Cameroon » Health: Taxation for health: A Necessary Step for Public Health in Cameroon

News channel or source: https://www.afro.who.int/countries/cameroon/news/taxation-health-necessary-step-public-health-cameroon

Published on: Monday 04 August 2025

On July 25, 2025, the Palais de Verre Paul Biya in Yaounde, Cameroon, hosted a high-level seminar addressing the urgent need to regulate and tax unhealthy food products. The event was organized by the ...

News Cameroon » Health: Cameroon’s President Biya home after 73-day absence, amid health speculation

News channel or source: https://www.rfi.fr/en/africa/20260821-cameroon-president-biya-home-after-73-day-absence-amid-health-speculation

Published on: Friday 21 August 2026

Cameroon’s President Paul Biya has returned to the country after spending 73 days abroad, ending an unusually long absence that has intensified speculation around the 93-year-old’s health and raised ...

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