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Nigeria vaccinates over 45 million people against yellow fever during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Nigeria vaccinates over 45 million people against yellow fever during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

New films show the impact of yellow fever outbreaks in Taraba State,…
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Healthy life expectancy in Africa rises by almost ten years

Healthy life expectancy in Africa rises by almost ten years

Brazzaville – Healthy life expectancy in the African region has…
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Healthy life expectancy in Africa rises by almost ten years

Healthy life expectancy in Africa rises by almost ten years

Brazzaville – Healthy life expectancy in the African region has…
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90% of people living with HIV access treatment

90% of people living with HIV access treatment

Adetimi Bayo lives with HIV in a heart of poverty in remote Nigeria.…
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Enhanced local health services saving lives

Enhanced local health services saving lives

Zione Chiwaula, who lives in southern Malawi’s hard-to-reach Neno…
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Mozambique: Widespread vaccination against COVID-19

Widespread vaccination against COVID-19

As much-needed COVID-19 vaccinations reach vulnerable groups at a…
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Towards malaria pre-elimination

Towards malaria pre-elimination

Growing up in the fishing village of Chorkor in Ghana’s Greater Accra…
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Guinea: Containing marburg disease

Ending Marburg outbreak swiftly

When a man in Temessadou M’Boket – a village in the densely forested…
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Beating childhood cancer

Beating childhood cancer

Precious Amani may be only 11 years old, but she has already been…
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Vaccinating newborn against hepatitis B

Vaccinating newborns against hepatitis B

Marlène Seck has brought her infant daughter to the Philippe…
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