Afri-Cub Medical Clinic

29/11/2025

Menkes Syndrome Awareness Day
Every November 29th, World Menkes Syndrome Awareness Day is celebrated to raise awareness of this rare disease, which affects copper levels in the body, leading to serious health consequences.
That's why, since today is World Menkes Syndrome Day, I'll tell you a little bit about this disease: why it occurs, its causes, its symptoms, and its consequences.
As a fun fact, the reason this day is celebrated on the 29th is because the atomic number of copper is 29.

26/11/2025

20/11/2025

WORLD CHILDREN'S DAY
Each year on November 20, World Children’s Day promotes the welfare of children around the world. The day also spreads awareness for issues that children face and celebrates international togetherness.


Human rights don’t just apply to adults. They apply to children as well. Children deserve the right to life, health, education, and even the right to play. Additionally, children’s rights include the right to family life, protection from violence, and not to be discriminated against. The child also has the right for their views to be heard.

20/11/2025

On World Pancreatic Cancer Day, loved ones, communities and organizations around the world unite to shine a light on pancreatic cancer and share our universal message that it’s about time we all know the symptoms! Raise awareness on this special day as we share the facts about this disease, survivor stories and what you can do to make an impact.

17/11/2025

Lung Cancer Awareness Month, a global healthcare event, has been held annually throughout November for the past 27 years (since 1995). Various organisations both global and local, come together during this month to conduct awareness campaigns and activities with the aim to educate people about the disease awareness, need for screening, risk factors, and preventive measures of lung cancer.

17/11/2025

Cervical Cancer Elimination Day of Action is a global healthcare awareness event observed on the 17th of November every year, intended to eliminate the disease and encourage new initiatives to end cervical cancer.

On this day, various local, national and international organisations, healthcare professionals and advocates, join together and conduct several events, local activities and advocacy events to eradicate cervical cancer.

17/11/2025

World Prematurity Day is observed worldwide on 17th of November every year to raise awareness of preterm births that include prematurity-related fatalities, challenges, and affordable ways to prevent them.

On this day, various national and international organisations, including the World Health Organisation(WHO)/ Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO), United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF), and the March of Dimes, hospitals, non-profit organisations and healthcare professionals, come together to conduct activities and special events to increase awareness of the difficulties and burdens of premature birth worldwide.

14/11/2025

Diabetes is part of the Chronic Non Transmissible Disease that affect Health Worldwide...Our clinic encourage you to continue preventing the complications for those patients who already suffering the disease and prevention for those ones who meet risk factors for develop diabetes. Together we can walk facing Diabetes..

14/11/2025

Training on the monkeypox virus for all our staff at Afri-Cub Medical Clinic. Thanks to the Regional Health Directorate (RHD) and our nurse, Oumie Brarrow, for providing this information. We are now better prepared and more knowledgeable to deal with the virus in our clinic and in patients' homes.

14/11/2025

We are a small clinic in The Gambia, in the Brikama region. We specialize in the care of OPD patients. We have a medical consultation room, laboratory, ultrasound, and observation rooms. We guarantee excellent medical care and personalized treatment for our patients.