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- SundayNews
- August 13, 2024
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Contipharma launches Mpox detection testâ¯
World leading health organizations sound alarm on endemic cases of the virus in DRC ; Contipharma’s rapid in vitro LAMP Mpox test provides critical results within 20 minutes Contipharma, a…
- SundayNews
- August 12, 2024
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Strengthening the Health Workforce
Five years ago, Esther Omagwa was one of only two nurses at the Railways Health Centre in Kisumu County, western Kenya. The immense workload often exhausted her, forcing her to…
- SundayNews
- August 12, 2024
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United Nation (UN) Women supported first – ever Gender Audit Manual for the Office of the Federal Audit General implemented: Pilot audit findings delivered to parliament
Through the support of UN Women in Ethiopia, the Ethiopian government has taken various steps to promote gender equality and women’s empowerment as part of its commitments to realize its…
- SundayNews
- August 11, 2024
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Commissioning of Rehabilitated Health Centre at Leklebi-Kame Financed by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Commission
The Ghana Boundary Commission (GhBC) commissioned a rehabilitated health centre at Leklebi-Kame in the Afadjato South District of the Volta Region, on 8 August 2024, as part of efforts towards…
- SundayNews
- August 9, 2024
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Uganda: Districts to get community hospitals in new health reforms
Government has introduced a new reform in the health sector to uplift the status of health centre IVs to community hospitals. This was revealed by the Prime Minister, Robinah Nabbanja…
- SundayNews
- August 9, 2024
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United States (U.S.) Provides Support to Revise Ghanaâs National Healthcare Quality Strategy and Organize the Second National Quality Forum
The U.S. Government, through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), provided over eight hundred thousand Ghana Cedis ($52,287) and technical assistance to support the revision of Ghana’s National…
- SundayNews
- August 9, 2024
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Zimbabwe declares cholera outbreak over
The Government of Zimbabwe, through the Ministry of Health and Child Care (MoHCC) has officially declared an end to a protracted cholera outbreak that began on 12 February 2023. The…
- SundayNews
- August 9, 2024
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Zimbabwe protects over 200,000 people against cholera
The Ministry of Health and Child Care, with the support of the World Health Organization, and other partners has immunized over 200,000 people against cholera in the most vulnerable communities.…
- SundayNews
- August 9, 2024
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Merck Foundation and Africa Reproductive Care Society (ARCS) conduct 3rd World Infertility Awareness Summit 2024 to break the infertility stigma
Merck Foundation’s (www.MerckFoundation.com) Rasha Kelej marks World Infertility Awareness Month at the World Infertility Awareness Summit (WIAS)2024 through releasing the first Animation Film to raise awareness about infertility in Africa; Watch…
- SundayNews
- August 8, 2024
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Barriers to care have deadly consequences for women and children in Baidoa
“Seven months ago, my wife gave birth to twin boys,” says Kalimow Mohamed Nur, a father whose twins are under treatment at the Bay Regional hospital in Somalia, supported by…