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Laura Nagasha

Surviving COVID-19 and fighting stigma in Uganda

Kampala – When 30-year-old Ugandan entrepreneur Laura Nagasha…
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COVID-19 laboratory testing

Rwanda’s response to COVID-19 brings out the need to prepare and learn from practice

Wash your hands, wear your face mask and practice physical distancing…
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Studying Nursing just got a lot easier”, says student nurse, College of Nursing and Midwifery, Maiduguri 

Maiduguri, 24 September, 2020 - As part of its health system…
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Bagama Guehara

Overcoming COVID-19 at 99 years-old in Guinea

When Bagama Guehara walked out of Donka Hospital in Guinea’s capital…
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Social, environmental factors seen behind Africa’s low COVID-19 cases

Social, environmental factors seen behind Africa’s low COVID-19 cases

COVID-19 transmission in Africa has been marked by relatively fewer…
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Review of maternal deaths and the continuity of essential reproductive, maternal, and child health services in the context of COVID-19 and the Humanitarian Crisis in the Sahel, Burkina Faso

Review of maternal deaths and the continuity of essential reproductive, maternal, and child health services in the context of COVID-19 and the Humanitarian Crisis in the Sahel, Burkina Faso

In the context of the double burden of COVID-19 and Humanitarian…
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By foot, boat and bicycle, thousands of volunteer vaccinators in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) go to extraordinary efforts, sometimes at personal risk, to help eradicate polio.

DRC: The great lengths that polio vaccinators go to reach every last child

By foot, boat and bicycle, thousands of volunteer vaccinators in the…
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UN RC (4th right), WR (3rd left), UN & WHO personnel presented gifts to last polio case and parents in Maiduguri-Photo credit_WHO Ogbeide.jpg

WHO Representative urges Borno, the last polio sanctuary, to remain vigilant despite Certification

Maiduguri, 23 September, 2020 -  The World Health Organization (WHO)…
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