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A global trial designed to test whether the anti-malaria drugs hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine can prevent infection with Covid-19 is to restart after being approved by British
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Source: The East African
Covid-19: Apathy? Just 37% of readers expect to be infected, /Ipsos poll finds
A News24/Ipsos poll has revealed what appears to be high levels of apathy among News24 readers toward Covid-19, and particularly among young
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Nigeria: Report - Nigerians Experience Income Drop After Lockdown
A recent survey carried out by FinMark Trust through the i2i initiative, in partnership with EFInA, reveals that some Nigerian households are beginning to experience reduced income, lower food consumption, and reduced access to financial and health services following the onset of the COVID-19
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Retired Local City Official Joins AIDS Healthcare Foundation to Address AIDS Crisis in Texas
The AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), which serves as the world’s largest, non-profit public health organization addressing the HIV/AIDS epidemic, recently announced that former Missouri City executive, Anthony J. Snipes, has joined AHF as a part of its southern bureau leadership
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Coronavirus Shines Spotlight on Healthcare Disparities
For some time now in Texas, we have been well aware of significant health disparities between Caucasians in contrast to African Americans and
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New Yorkers Said ‘F**k The Police,’ So The Police Rioted
NEW YORK — Thousands of New Yorkers over the last few days have taken to the streets in all five boroughs, setting cop cars aflame, braving beatings by batons and suffering pepper spray to the eyes, all so they can scream an urgent message for all the world to hear: Fuck the
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Uganda: Four New COVID-19 Cases Registered in Uganda
Four new COVID-19 cases have been registered in
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Africa: Parts of India, Africa Re-Instate Lockdown to Manage COVID-19 Clusters
As some countries are easing out of lockdown and reopening their borders, others are going for tougher measures and re-imposing lockdown in certain clusters with an alarming resurgence of Covid-19
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COVID-19: China to give Africa 30 million test kits monthly - Ramaphosa
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Black Lives Matter Has Been Doing The Work To 'Defund The Police' For Years
LOS ANGELES — On Monday, after the Los Angeles Police Department spent days violently attacking people protesting police brutality and racism, the City Council appeared set to allow a new budget — which would allocate nearly 54% of the city’s discretionary spending to the LAPD — to go into
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GRAPHICS | Gauteng recording more Covid-19 cases a day than Western Cape has at any point
South Africa's most populous province, Gauteng, is now recording more Covid-19 cases every day than at any point during the Western
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We are paupers receiving slave wages, say Zimbabwe nurses as union calls for strike
Zimbabwe's largest nurses' union has announced that its members are now incapacitated and would be unable to attend work, citing low pay that it said could no longer meet basic
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Why George Floyd’s Life Didn’t Matter To The Healthcare System, Just Like Many Black Lives Before Him - Blavity
Floyd’s last moments on Earth are a metaphor for how America sees and treats Black
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Africa's unsung army of women wage war on virus
Poorly paid or not at all, these unsung armies of mostly female community health workers have for years doled out advice and health services to families living in remote villages and urban slums who lack formal
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The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) says territories in the region must “think twice” about the wholesale relaxation of social distancing measures in order to bolster faltering economies, as doing so could erase all the gains made in controlling the spread of the novel coronavirus over the
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OpEd: D.C. Must Support At-Risk Students | Afro
D.C. Councilmembers are now reviewing the mayor’s budget, which included a three percent increase in school operating costs for D.C. Public Schools and the District’s public charter schools, each of which educate about half of all city public school
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SOS holds Juneteenth march across the bridge in Selma
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Gay Men of African Descent (GMAD) (1986- )
Gay Men of African Descent (GMAD), founded in 1986 in New York City, is one of the oldest organizations working toward the welfare of black gay men in the United States. They began offering services for persons with AIDS toward the beginning of the US pandemic which started in
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PART TWO: 400 YEARS OF WHITE FEET ON BLACK NECKS IN AMERICA
George Floyd’s death turned a tinder box of historical frustrations with Police Brutality, institutional and systemic racism, into a bon fire of protest raging across America and the
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Historic brain surgery - Woman sings through procedure at KPH as doctors remove tumour
When 49-year-old Marjorie Pearson went into surgery three weeks ago at the Kingston Public Hospital (KPH), it was not lost on her and the medical team that the high-risk brain procedure could go horribly
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Be Careful What You Ask For, Cautions Kimpson
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Africa coronavirus: DRC's returnees from Europe, Zim lockdown extended
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HOPKINS: CSR needs personal social responsibility
The onus is more than ever on the individual and their personal responsibility, especially as there is a breakdown in personal responsibility among many heads of government in countries such as the UK, America, Russia, China, Hungary and Brazil – to name just the bigger
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UPMC: A Commitment to Culturally Competent Care
UPMC is a proven integrated delivery and health finance system — the first of its kind in western Pennsylvania. We have 20 academic, community, and specialty hospitals, more than 500 doctors’ offices and outpatient sites, employ 3,500 physicians, insure 2.5 million health plan members, and offer an
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Our Push for Equity Should Focus on Grassroots Organizations
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The Impact of the HEROES Act on Black Communities | Afro
Black Businesses & Access to Capital:  Data also suggest Black businesses were less likely to receive forgivable loans in the first round of the Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”), and the HEROES Act attempts to address some of these issues by directing additional resources to community
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Newswire: Black unemployment was 16.7 percent in April
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday that the jobless rate for the blacks was 16.7 percent in April, a giant leap backward from 6.7 percent in March, as the Covid-19 pandemic caused nonfarm employment to fall by 20.5 million jobs last
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Area cities resume residential parking tickets
LOS ANGELES — As businesses slowly reopen under special COVID-19 county guidelines, several cities in Southeast Los Angeles County have restored street sweeping parking enforcement, ordered trash placed in plastic bags and opened drive-through coronavirus testing
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