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Ensuring primary health services for displaced people

South Sudan: Ensuring primary health services for displaced people

Juba ‒ Cecilia Achuwor, a 38-year-old mother of six children, is one…
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Liberia: Scaling up access to life-saving medical oxygen

Liberia: Scaling up access to life-saving medical oxygen

Tubmanburg – Late one night, 44-year-old Irene Mabande’s four-year-…
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Sample collected from the Glen Valley Wastewater Treatment Plant

Strengthening Polio Surveillance: Risk Assessment following Detection of Circulating Vaccine Derived Poliovirus type 2

Environmental Surveillance (ES) was introduced in August 2022 to…
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Intensifying efforts to end TB

South Africa: Intensifying efforts to end TB

Pretoria – One night in September 2023, 21-year-old university…
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First-ever delivery of mpox vaccines in Africa outside of clinical trials arrives in Nigeria 

First-ever delivery of mpox vaccines in Africa outside of clinical trials arrives in Nigeria

Abuja/Brazzaville – Nigeria today received 10 000 doses of mpox…
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La Guinée Équatoriale intensifie le dépistage pour éradiquer la tuberculose

Equatorial Guinea steps up screening to eradicate tuberculosis

Malabo ‒ Equatorial Guinea has made remarkable progress in its fight…
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Antenatal visits improve maternal health outcomes in Togo

Antenatal visits improve maternal health outcomes in Togo

Sokodé –​​​​ In Togo, the health landscape is characterized by…
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Sénégal : faire des structures de santé des lieux sûrs pour les patients

Senegal: transforming health facilities into safe places for clients

Dakar – ​​​​In Senegal, as in most countries in the African region,…
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Participantes at the Cha de Ideias

Mental Health: A right for all

The Angolan Ministry of Health, through the Mental Health and…
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Burundi : une approche communautaire pour interrompre la transmission du VIH de la mère à l’enfant

Burundi adopts community-based approach to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV

Bujumbura – “It’s unacceptable that in 2024, children are still born…
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