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People in low-income countries are living longer and healthier lives due to better control of deadly diseases like HIV/Aids and malaria, says the World Health
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Source: The East African
OGUTU: Sickle cell disease not yet fully curable despite a
The designation of the orphan disease status to SCD by regulatory agencies, such as US Food and Drug Administration, spurred interest in product development for therapeutic agents in the treatment of the
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Source: The East African
UK vaccine summit calls for freely available virus vaccine | The Atlanta Voice
A vaccine summit hosted by Britain on Thursday raised billions of dollars to immunize children in developing countries as experts wrestled with the difficult question of how any potential vaccine against the new coronavirus might be distributed globally — and
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Source: The Atlanta Voice
Africa: COVID-19 - Tests for Traditional Herb Artemisia Begin
"It is the first study in which scientists are investigating the function of these plant substances in connection with COVID-19," the head of the study, Peter Seeberger, said in an interview with
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Source: allAfrica.com
(1997) Kweisi Mfume, “A Shining and Powerful Dream”
Kweisi Mfume, born Frizzel Gray in Baltimore, Maryland, represented that city in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1986 to 1996 and rose to become Chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus.  On February 15, 1996, he stepped down to become President of the National Association for the
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Burundi's Tense Election Campaign Sparks Fears of Further Violence
Burundi's election campaign, which ended on Sunday, left several dead and injured in clashes that broke out between members of the ruling CNDD-FDD party and the main opposition CNL party
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Source: allAfrica.com
Flipper, Henry Ossian (1856-1940)
Born near Thomasville, Georgia on March 21, 1856, Henry O. Flipper rose to prominence as the first African American graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1877. Despite being born into slavery to Festus, a shoemaker, and Isabella Flipper, Henry was reared in a family that
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Madagascar sends doctors, soldiers to virus-hit city
The government of Madagascar has announced the deployment of soldiers and doctors to the city of Toamasina (east), after a sharp increase in the number of Covid-19 cases in the country’s second largest
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Nigeria: NCDC Issues New Guidelines On Discharge of COVID-19 Patients
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) Thursday unveiled new guidelines for the treatment of COVID-19 patients, which will quicken their discharge from isolation and treatment
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Source: allAfrica.com
Africa: Tracing the History of Pandemics
Most people on the globe are very frightened of the Covid-19 pandemic which has swept across the
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Covid-19: WHO halts malaria drug trials
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has temporarily suspended trials of hydroxychloroquine from its global study into experimental Covid-19 treatments, saying that its experts need to review all available evidence to
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Source: The East African
Namibia Progresses On HIV Battle - Geingob
President Hage Geingob last week said Namibia is on the verge of achieving total HIV/AIDS epidemic control in line with the triple 90 goals, with the country's HIV response standing at
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Source: allAfrica.com
Congo-Kinshasa: Nearly 200,000 People Forced From Homes in Northeast DRC
A surge in violence in the two months since April has seen nearly 200,000 people displaced from their homes in Ituri province, northeast Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), say Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams working in the
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Source: allAfrica.com
Africa: 'You Will Not Be Safe From COVID-19, Until Everyone Is Safe From COVID-19'
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) International President Dr. Christos Christou delivered the following statement today at the 2020 ECOSOC Humanitarian Affairs Segment high-level panel on the increasing complexity of health challenges in humanitarian
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Africa: Madagascar's Claims About Clinical Trials for Herbal Coronavirus Cure Creates Confusion
Madagascar's President Andry Rajoelina this week announced the start of clinical trials of an injectable solution based on extracts of the artemisia plant, a herbal treatment the Malagasy leader has been promoting for treatment of
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Source: allAfrica.com
Africa's unsung army of women wage war on Covid-19
As cases of the new coronavirus climb and Kenyans are told to stay home and avoid human contact, 38-year-old Omondi moves house to house through Kawangware's maze of narrow
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US faces Memorial Day like no other under virus restrictions | The Atlanta Voice
Americans marked a Memorial Day like no other Monday as the coronavirus pandemic upended traditional commemorations and forced communities to honor the nation’s military dead with smaller, more subdued ceremonies like car convoys and online tributes instead of
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Source: The Atlanta Voice
Eastern Cape hotspots to be zoned in on as Mkhize turns attention to 'vulnerable' province
The Eastern Cape's Covid-19 hotspots will be divided into sub-districts to better manage the fight against the pandemic through regional responses in the "vulnerable" province, the national Department of Health said on
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Uganda: Cipla Records Shs36bn Loss
Kampala, Uganda — The Kampala-based drug manufacturer, Cipla Quality Chemical Industries Ltd, has recorded a Shs36bn loss for the financial year 2019/20 compared to a profit of Shs7bn recorded in the previous
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Source: allAfrica.com
Ethiopia
Ethiopia is in east-central Africa, bordered on the west by the Sudan, the east by Somalia and Djibouti, the south by Kenya, and the northeast by Eritrea. It has several high mountains, the highest of which is Ras Dashan at 15,158 ft (4,620 m). The Blue Nile, or Abbai, rises in the northwest and
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Africa: Malaria Consortium Outlines Nine Key Approaches to Help Mitigate Climate-Related Threats to Health
Malaria Consortium is pleased to announce the publication of an opinion paper exploring the impact climate change could have on global
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Covid-19 fails to halt conflict in DR Congo
Coronavirus has swiftly gained status as the world's No. 1 threat but in eastern DR Congo, one of Africa's most volatile regions, militia killings and ethnic violence are an older and -- for now -- far greater source of
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Africa: COVID-19 Strategies Africa Can Learn From
There are of course huge differences between US states and African countries, but consider for a moment that the US has one international
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Coronavirus: scientists say US-China ‘political drama’ is impeding progress on tracing Covid-19’s path Requests for early virus samples from China likely would have been more productive coming from medical experts, not the US State Department ‘Infectious
Pompeo said on Wednesday that US authorities have made multiple formal requests for viral isolates and information about “patient
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Mozambique: Violent Attacks Force Thousands to Flee and Damage Health Center
An armed group attacked the village of Macomia in northern Mozambique in the early morning hours of May 28, setting fire to homes, shops, schools, religious and government buildings, and forcing people to flee into the bush and neighboring villages, said the international medical humanitarian
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OSAWA: Why this is not the time to tax clean cooking
Why this is not the time to tax clean cooking
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WCPL set for prime time in 2024, CPL launches new logos - Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
IN an effort to continue reinventing themselves the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) launched a new logo for the 2024 men's and women's tournament and in addition to that, will play the Massy Women's CPL (WCPL) separately, giving the women's cricketers a chance to stand out on their own. The la
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Africa: Just Hoping Coronavirus Will Bypass Africa, Would Be a Deadly Mistake - Bachelet
Tens of millions of people in Africa could become destitute as a result of COVID-19 and its catastrophic impact on fragile economies and health systems across the continent, human rights chiefs from the United Nations and the African Commission warned on
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Source: allAfrica.com
COVID-19 in Zim: Where are we going?
Subsequently, government reserved 425 hospital beds and five ventilators for COVID-19 at one of the tertiary care hospitals in the capital, Harare, and is upgrading and refurbishing infectious diseases hospitals around the
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Blacks face greater risk from COVID-19, health experts say
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