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Africa: When Medicines Don’t Work – Eliminating Neglected Tropical Diseases Will Reduce Drug Resistance – a Win for All

[ad_1] A major health challenge of our time is when drugs no longer work to treat infections. This happens when the agents that cause infections - they may be bacteria, viruses or fungi - become resistant to the drugs. Antimicrobials are a broad range of medications that act on microbes - like bacteria, fungi, viruses, or parasites. Antibiotics, for instance, are one type of antimicrobial working against bacteria. Resistance to antimicrobial drugs therefore makes it difficult to treat and prevent […]

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Africa: Hundreds of Local Malawians Quietly Leave World Bank Climate Project

[ad_1] Experts warn that payment problems and a lack of local ownership could undermine the effectiveness of a nationwide adaptation project. Local participants working on a World Bank funded climate change adaptation project in Malawi say they have not been paid for up to a year, leading many to drop out. This has contributed to experts' fears that adaptation programmes that are mismanaged and lack community ownership will lead to poor outcomes, leaving people vulnerable to climate impacts. The $128 […]

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Africa: The Digital Future of Pharmacy in Africa

[ad_1] Amid the drain of Africa's trained healthcare workers to the West, pharmacists are increasingly playing a frontline role that goes beyond dispensing drugs. Across Africa, community pharmacies are often the first - and sometimes the only - accessible points of care, particularly in rural and underserved regions. In Nigeria, for example, pharmacies comprise ~50% of the primary healthcare facilities that cater to 70% of registered care visits. Similar trends are seen in Ghana and Cote d'Ivoire, where pharmacies are […]

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Africa’s Researchers Playing Crucial Role in Advancing HIV Prevention #HIVR4P2024

[ad_1] Lima, Peru — Africa is contributing to groundbreaking data from the PURPOSE 2 study, which explores twice-yearly lenacapavir for HIV prevention. This study, with participants from South Africa and Uganda , is one of the scientific highlights showcased at the 5th HIV Research for Prevention Conference, better known as HIVR4P 2024, in Lima, Peru. A key development is the promising results from the PURPOSE 1 study, which demonstrated that lenacapavir, a biannual HIV prevention injectable, reduced HIV acquisitions by […]

todayOctober 8, 2024 1

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Kais Saied secures second term with 91% of votes

[ad_1] In an election that was criticised by rights groups, Tunisia’s President Kais Saied has won a second term with more than 90% of the vote, the electoral commission has said. Only two candidates out of more than a dozen other hopefuls were allowed to stand against President Saied in Sunday's ballot, where only 29% of the more than nine million registered voters took part. Saied's closest challenger, businessman Ayachi […]

todayOctober 8, 2024 1

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Africa: COP29 – States Must Press Azerbaijani Authorities to End Assault On Civil Society

[ad_1] In the leadup to next month's COP29 climate summit in Baku, states must exert pressure on the Azerbaijani authorities to reverse their clampdown on civil society, release those detained solely for peacefully exercising their right to freedom of expression, and ensure participants including activists and journalists can engage freely and fully in the event, Amnesty International said today. Since Azerbaijan was announced as the host of COP29 last December, the authorities have intensified their crackdown on the rights to […]

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Africa: Health Labour Market Analysis Support Tool Launched

[ad_1] Nairobi, Kenya — The World Health Organization, Regional Office for Africa launched the Health Labour Market Analysis (HLMA) Support Tool to assist countries assess their health workforce education capacity, supply, demand and need for health workers and facilitate integrating health workforce planning into Health Labour Marker Analysis. The World Health Organization (WHO) in 2021 developed the Health Labour Market Analysis Guidebook, trained 75 experts from 25 countries in Africa. Building on this, the WHO designed a HLMA Support Tool […]

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‘I found out I had cervical cancer while I was pregnant’

[ad_1] BBCDorothy Masasa is one of the thousands of women diagnosed with cervical cancer every year in MalawiDorothy Masasa happily walks down a dirt road on a sunny afternoon, her baby securely strapped on her back.Just six months ago the 39-year-old, originally from southern Malawi's Thyolo district, was in Kenya for life-saving radiotherapy.Malawi has only recently received its first such machines, so other women with cancer may no longer have […]

todayOctober 8, 2024 1

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Women’s T20 World Cup: England beat South Africa by seven wickets for crucial victory

[ad_1] A much-improved batting performance saw England seal a seven-wicket win over South Africa at the Women's T20 World Cup.On a more batter-friendly surface than the previous encounters at Sharjah, Danni Wyatt-Hodge's 43 and Nat Sciver-Brunt's unbeaten 48 helped England reach their target of 125 with four balls to spare.The pair rode their luck, with several chances falling short of fielders or into gaps, but were ultimately rewarded for taking […]

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