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Major Effort to Reduce Child Mortality Not Enough
By Jonathan Migneault and Jamila Akweley Okertchiri
ACCRA - Ghana has taken a major step towards reducing its under-five mortality rate by becoming the first African country to introduce two new vaccines for rotavirus and pneumococcal disease.
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Q&A
Ghana's Youth Are "The Future of the Nation"
Aline Jenckel interviews SAMUEL KISSI, executive coordinator of Curious Minds, a youth advocacy organisation in Ghana
UNITED NATIONS - With a whopping 40 percent of Ghana's population under the age of 24, the government's ability to foster their development and include them in the country's development are critical to the country's future.
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Mali - Barely Surviving As One Country, Let Alone Two
By William Lloyd-George
ABALA, Niger - It was the middle of the day when Tabisou, 72, suddenly saw people from her town of Amderamboukane in Mali fleeing for their lives. Her family had no time to pack their things; the fighting had already begun.
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South African Township Desperate for Safe Drinking Water
By Siphosethu Stuurman
JOHANNESBURG - Thousands of residents in Diepsloot, a large township north of Johannesburg, South Africa, are queuing for hours to access clean, safe water a week after their supply was contaminated by sewage.
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More Toilets in Zimbabwe, Better Livelihoods
By Busani Bafana
BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe - Government and sanitation experts say Zimbabwe needs to increase efforts to promote good hygiene and invest in toilets and clean water provision, as the country grapples with a typhoid outbreak.
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U.S. Patriot Act Kept Somalia Starving
By Linus Atarah
HELSINKI - When war-torn Somalia was also ravaged by a drought-induced famine last year, which killed tens of thousands and displaced over a million people, international media was quick to blame the Islamist Al-Shabaab for blocking humanitarian assistance from reaching its zone of control in southern Somalia.
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Libya Faces a Health Check
By Rebecca Murray
TRIPOLI - At a crowded corner of the Tripoli Medical Centre, people gather every morning to submit paperwork for medical treatment abroad, or worriedly scan new lists of approved names plastering the walls.
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Latrines Critical to Keeping Kids in South Sudan’s Schools
By Andrew Green*
JUBA - Before Bor B Primary School built latrines on the school grounds two years ago, students would leave during their first break to head home. Most did not come back until the next morning.
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Liberia’s Government Finding a Way to End FGM
By Travis Lupick
MONROVIA - "There were three people. One person was holding me down; one person was holding my hand; and the other person was doing the job. They lay me down, and…" Fatu said of the female genital mutilation she underwent as an eight- year-old in Liberia.
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Breastfeeding, Not Formula, for South Africa's HIV-Positive Mothers
By Lee Middleton
CAPE TOWN, South Africa - South Africa's nine provinces will begin phasing out provision of free formula to HIV-positive mothers and implement a new policy on breast-feeding from Sunday. But despite the clarity of the policy and its supporting data, vocal critics, including respected individuals from leading medical and academic institutions, have decried the choice.
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Careless Handling of Benin’s Medical Waste Could Cost Lives
By Ulrich Vital Ahotondji
COTONOU - Fifteen-year-old Aicha is one of the many spice vendors hawking their wares in the Dantokpa market, in Benin's economic capital, Cotonou. But a closer look at her tidy stall reveals a disturbing detail: the powdered spices are packaged in recycled medicine vials.
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