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China’s COVID-19 aid in Africa: trends and implications for future pandemic preparedness
25 Oct 2025 02:03 GMT
With the recent ratification of the pandemic treaty, our study offers a timely and distinctive contribution to pandemic response literature by analyzing China’s COVID-19 aid in the context of its expanding development assistance portfolio in Africa [22, 23 …
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La Ruche Health wins 2025 Prix Galien Africa Award for Innovation in Digital Healthcare
24 Oct 2025 00:04 GMT
The 2025 Prix Galien Africa has honoured Côte d’Ivoire’s La Ruche Health, led by Mr. Rory Assandey, for its groundbreaking work in expanding access to digital healthcare across Africa.
Now in its fifth year, the Prix Galien Africa celebrates excellence and …
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Only eight Nigerian states meet women’s health benchmark – Report
23 Oct 2025 11:30 GMT
Only eight states in Nigeria have met the global target for women’s participation in decisions about their sexual and reproductive health.
The figure, drawn from the 2023–24 Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey (NDHS), was highlighted in a report released …
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Africa’s children: 20 years on, what happened to the millennium babies?
23 Oct 2025 07:04 GMT
Twenty years ago, the Guardian featured 10 newborn babies in countries across Africa, describing their births, their families and the environments they had been born into. We followed these babies at five-year intervals up to 2015 – the date the United …
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Lawyers Alert launches ‘HealthNotHarm’ campaign to advance reproductive justice, health rights in Nigeria
21 Oct 2025 22:33 GMT
A nonprofit human rights organization in Nigeria, Lawyers Alert has launched a campaign tagged “HealthNotHarm”, a strategic initiative aimed at reshaping national discourse on safe termination of pregnancy and advancing reproductive justice in Nigeria.
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Sub-Saharan Africa's Breast Cancer Battle: Confronting Myths and Healthcare Gaps
21 Oct 2025 18:13 GMT
In 2010, Ethel Olomu was enrolled as a scholarship student at the Lagos Business School when she first discovered a lump in her breast. She had never heard about breast cancer before then. After her mother, a retired nurse, helped examine her breast, Olomu …
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Some viruses can play a deadly game of hide and seek
24 Oct 2025 16:53 GMT
… people in his West African country of Liberia were heaving a … Family members eventually pointed medical investigators to the woman… the first documented sexually transmitted case of Ebola … & Infectious Diseases in Liberia, which studies the phenomenon …
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New Works of Transformation: Publications from the CIIS Community (2024–2025)
23 Oct 2025 23:09 GMT
… *Diallo, H. (2024). Medical gendered racism and Black women … Disorder in the USA – A conceptual exploration. Culture, Health, & Sexuality … for Understanding Human Sexuality,” American Psychological Association … the Yoruba of West Africa.” Wisdom of the …
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Hello weekend plans! 70 things to do in Canberra
23 Oct 2025 15:46 GMT
… assistance to families experiencing pregnancy or infant loss.
Sunday … , Throsby | movement-music-medicine.com
Workshops, Talks and … their experiences of queerness, sexuality, gender and unique … Themne cultures from West Africa, bringing the African diaspora in …
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Healing in Chaos: Australian Physicians in Regions of Crisis
23 Oct 2025 07:38 GMT
As bombs rained down on Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, in 2022, Lisa Searle, MD, a general practitioner from Tasmania, Australia, was in the thick of it. She was working and living underground in the city’s metro station, which had become a …