Namibia Health News API

Get the live top health headlines from Namibia with one request to the Top Headlines endpoint of GNews API. Headlines are based on Google News rankings and returned as JSON.

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This request returns the current top health headlines from Namibia. The response below is live: it was fetched when this page loaded. Every parameter is described in the Top Headlines endpoint documentation.

GET https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?category=health&country=na&apikey=YOUR_API_KEY

curl --get "https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines" \
  --data-urlencode "category=health" \
  --data-urlencode "country=na" \
  --data-urlencode "apikey=YOUR_API_KEY"

import requests

API_KEY = "YOUR_API_KEY"

response = requests.get(
    "https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines",
    params={"category": "health", "country": "na", "apikey": API_KEY},
    timeout=10,
)
response.raise_for_status()

for article in response.json()["articles"]:
    print(article["title"])

const API_KEY = "YOUR_API_KEY";

const params = new URLSearchParams({
    category: "health",
    country: "na",
    apikey: API_KEY,
});

const response = await fetch(`https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?${params}`);
if (!response.ok) {
    throw new Error(`Request failed: ${response.status}`);
}

const { articles } = await response.json();
for (const article of articles) {
    console.log(article.title);
}

On the Free plan, browsers can only call the API from localhost: see Using the API in the FAQ.

<?php

$apiKey = "YOUR_API_KEY";

$params = http_build_query([
    "category" => "health",
    "country"  => "na",
    "apikey"   => $apiKey,
]);

$response = file_get_contents("https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?" . $params);
if ($response === false) {
    throw new RuntimeException("Request failed");
}

$data = json_decode($response, true);
foreach ($data["articles"] as $article) {
    echo $article["title"] . PHP_EOL;
}

using System.Net.Http.Json;

const string ApiKey = "YOUR_API_KEY";

using var client = new HttpClient();

var url = $"https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?category=health&country=na&apikey={ApiKey}";
var data = await client.GetFromJsonAsync<ApiResponse>(url)
           ?? throw new InvalidOperationException("Empty response");

foreach (var article in data.Articles)
{
    Console.WriteLine(article.Title);
}

record ApiResponse(List<Article> Articles);
record Article(string Title);

200 OK · Live JSON response

{
    "totalArticles": 7578,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "f6776c88d5ff5687e9831e75d9f9bd0a",
            "title": "Hemophilia carrier concerns shift with age and access to care",
            "description": "A study found greater access to care and information may lead hemophilia carriers to worry about relationships and family planning earlier.",
            "content": "A small study in Japan suggests that younger women identified as hemophilia carriers have greater access to information and specialized care than women in an earlier generation, but still face uncertainty about how the condition may affect their live... [6056 chars]",
            "url": "https://hemophilianewstoday.com/news/hemophilia-carrier-concerns-shift-age-access-care/",
            "image": "https://hemophilianewstoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/nurse-and-patient-1-2.png",
            "publishedAt": "2026-11-03T19:52:30Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "8bdaa7950d02c19ad68e8db0ec682e44",
                "name": "Hemophilia News Today",
                "url": "https://hemophilianewstoday.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "29d83fef7c1f564ba361c68d1dd1eac5",
            "title": "A Memphis woman faced years of waiting for a kidney. Then a complete stranger saw a Facebook post.",
            "description": "Stacy Hobson faced a five-year wait for a kidney transplant until a complete stranger, Jenny Joyner, saw a post on Facebook and stepped up to donate.",
            "content": "Stacy Hobson suffered from chronic kidney disease and high blood pressure and had been on the transplant list for 18 months. Her doctors told her the wait for a deceased donor kidney would run five to seven years, and that she should start dialysis.\n... [1851 chars]",
            "url": "https://sg.style.yahoo.com/memphis-woman-faced-years-waiting-194609364.html",
            "image": "https://s.yimg.com/lo/mysterio/api/b209453c78d011ee148f43de3bea01389fa4870737c8c8a968caedef2790a6e1/lightyear_networkapi/resizefill_w1200%3Bquality_80%3Bformat_jpg/https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.zenfs.com%2Fen%2Fupworthy_219%2Fff1098e853f4640b6ea5fce0e1b7fd4c.png",
            "publishedAt": "2026-11-03T19:46:09Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "d0f7288d14ec8c674636416b7d8b268b",
                "name": "Yahoo News Singapore",
                "url": "https://sg.news.yahoo.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "bc48592f014448784b739a6fc107286d",
            "title": "Progress and remaining priorities in geospatial analysis of health inequalities",
            "description": "Health outcomes, services and their drivers can now be mapped at fine spatial and temporal resolution, driven by growth in data, computing power and geospatial methods. Here we discuss what the field has achieved, where estimates can outpace their use, and what actions could close the gap.",
            "content": "Health outcomes vary from place to place, yet national averages can mask this. A country on track to meet coverage targets frequently contains areas where large populations remain unreached. Making these variations visible and usable is the work of s... [10093 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.nature.com/articles/s43856-026-01993-w?error=cookies_not_supported&code=6a15e39f-7d62-4f9a-ab06-ba97d0fb1004",
            "image": "https://www.nature.com/oscar-static/images/favicons/nature/favicon-48x48-b52890008c.png",
            "publishedAt": "2026-11-03T17:54:07Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "7abf0df285fbe93cdccffcc7c4088737",
                "name": "Nature",
                "url": "https://www.nature.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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