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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. MORE >>
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. MORE >>
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. MORE >>
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. MORE >>
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. MORE >>
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. MORE >>
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. MORE >>
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. MORE >>
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. MORE >>
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. MORE >>
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. MORE >>
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Africare
AEGIS - Aids Education Global Information System
Global Health Information Network
The African Centre for Health and Population Studies
Health Aids Action Campaign
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