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Ghana marks World NTD Day, calls for united action to eliminate diseases
01 Feb 2026 10:23 GMT
… explained that these diseases caused severe health consequences, including blindness … and scale up Mass Drug Administration to help … and subtropical regions in Africa, Asia, and Latin … and research compared to diseases like HIV, Tuberculosis, or malaria. …
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SA launches first human HIV vaccine trial
01 Feb 2026 01:29 GMT
… free of the virus.
The BRILLIANT 011 … African Medical Research Council (SAMRC), the DTHF and the Wits Health … six-monthly injectable HIV prevention drug, lenacapavir, was … diseases are vaccines.”
He stressed that while other prevention options expand, HIV …
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Stop the gag and deliver on gender equality and right to health within next 59 months
31 Jan 2026 13:49 GMT
… historically. Frontline defenders of health, safety and rights of … mechanism for gender and health programming. This shift often … support for gender responsive health policies, slower progress on … Africa, or Latin America and the Caribbean from malaria, HIV …
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Africa pushes systems health reform as AKU, UN plan summit
31 Jan 2026 07:47 GMT
… United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS … Medical College in East Africa and international president of the World Health … secured under the Nigeria Health Sector Renewal Investment … on financing integrated African health systems, reflecting growing …
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Global Health Under Trump
31 Jan 2026 03:14 GMT
… Seed Global Health, which works in underserved parts of Africa. She is … ending a historic pandemic of HIV over the years, and we … is the genetics of the virus? And I think the WHO … misunderstand, is that these things, diseases, are transnational in this day …
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Horrific parasitic disease puts millions of women at risk of HIV, cancer and infertility
30 Jan 2026 22:49 GMT
Estimates suggest up to 80% of women and girls are affected by the disease in some parts of sub-Saharan Africa. Minister for Development Jenny Chapman said: “Millions of women and girls across sub-Saharan Africa are suffering with a condition that causes …
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LUSAKA RECORDS HIGHEST HIV PREVALENCE IN ZAMBIA
30 Jan 2026 19:01 GMT
… to 14 living with the virus. Urban areas record a higher … .
By Rachel Mumba
© Diamond TV Zambia. Republishing full content without permission … post LUSAKA RECORDS HIGHEST HIV PREVALENCE IN ZAMBIA appeared first on Diamond …
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Factors Associated with Infertility Among Women Attending Reproductive Health Centers in Mogadishu, Somalia: A Cross-Sectional Study
30 Jan 2026 16:06 GMT
… including complications from untreated sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and … Known systemic diseases unrelated to reproductive health (eg, … Procedures
Trained female medical personnel administered the … in sub-Saharan Africa reporting secondary infertility …
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Sepsis study IDs simple ways to save lives in Africa
30 Jan 2026 14:54 GMT
… of Medicine, University of Minnesota and their collaborators in Africa, including leading HIV … infections or pneumonia,” said UVA Health researcher Scott Heysell, MD, … the scientific journals Lancet Infectious Diseases and eClinicalMedicine. The articles are …
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Health ministry announces registration of new HIV drug
30 Jan 2026 07:01 GMT
… innovation and health equity.
The Health Ministry emphasised that South Africa and Zambia have … the Director General of the African Medicines Agency, pushing for timely and … sector programmes without crippling national HIV responses due to unaffordable costs …