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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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Motorbike mission: Activist delivers sunscreen to Ugandans with albinism
Many in the country are struggling to find work because of the ongoing pandemic, and when they can find work, a nationwide transport ban due to COVID-19 made it even more it difficult for those with albinism—a genetic condition where the body doesn’t produce melanin, a pigment found in skin, eyes
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No Room to Love — When Abuse in Confinement Pushes Couples Apart
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Botswana's capital city Gaberone back on lockdown
Botswana’s capital city Gaborone has returned to a total lockdown following an increase in the number of COVID-19
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Film review: John Lewis – Good Trouble
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COVID-19 could linger for years, African govts must sit up - WHO warns
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JARAMILLO: After managing coronavirus, Kenya should trim debts
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GB Energy-Texaco donates $1m to PSOJ's COVID-19 fund
GB Energy-Texaco Jamaica recently donated $1 million to the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica's (PSOJ) COVID-19 Response Fund, which was established to assist vulnerable citizens affected by the coronavirus
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Tanzania: JPM Fulfills His Parliament Inauguration Pledges
PRESIDENT John Magufuli has walked the talk by fulfilling about 20 promises he made while inaugurating the 11th Parliament in 2015, the 'Daily News' can
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Grief coach helps women get over loss of spouse, gives tips on pandemic
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Somalia: UN Calls for Action to Eliminate Conflict-Related Sexual Violence
On the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict, the United Nations envoy to Somalia today called on Somalia's leaders, communities and partners to do more to assist and listen to victims and survivors of conflict-related sexual violence
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African Innovators Join the Fight Against COVID-19
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EXCLUSIVE OP-ED: Time to Work Together to Strengthen Relationships Between Law Enforcement and Black Communities
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Kenya: No Sanitary Products for Prisoners
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Congo-Kinshasa: Women Hit As Congo Faces Triple Threat of Coronavirus, Ebola and Measles
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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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Uganda's COVID-19 Tally At 679 As Community Cases Soar
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Makhura calls on Gautengers to help weather Covid-19 storm
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Africa: Don't Let Guard Down, We Must Be Ready for Long Fight - WHO's Moeti
So far, a number of countries have begun easing their lockdowns, and, according to WHO's initial analysis, the impact on doubling time - the number of days for case numbers to double in a given country - appears to be varying depending on the timing and duration of the confinement
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