#bbc.com. #Mar.29.2025 × Guinea ex-ruler Moussa Dadis Camara pardoned over stadium massacre. Moussa Dadis Camara, pardoned on health grounds, was less than a year into a 20-year sentence.
#Health × #Guinea #Africa ×
#bbc.com. #Mar.27.2025 × Gavi warns that one million children could die if US cuts funding for vaccines. The US is reported to be planning to cut funding to Gavi, which pays for childhood vaccines.
#Health × #Politics #Africa × #USA #North America
#theguardian.com. #Mar.26.2025 × ‘The field of human ancestry is rife with racism’: pioneering project to build cancer database in Africa. Less than 2% of human genomes analysed so far have been those of Africans. Yemaachi Biotech’s Africa Cancer Atlas aims to fill the research gap
#Health × #Africa ×
#economist.com. #Mar.24.2025 × A faster rollout of malaria vaccines would save many lives. But someone needs to pay for it—and aid budgets are being slashed
#Business #Health × #Politics #Africa ×
#washingtonpost.com. #Mar.21.2025 × Arab mediators rush to salvage Gaza ceasefire as Israel restarts war. Egypt and Qatar are pushing for an emergency truce, as the Palestinian death toll from renewed Israeli strikes soared past 500 according to health officials.
#Health × #Africa × #Palestine #Asia #Egypt #Israel #Qatar
#aljazeera.com. #Mar.19.2025 × ‘I nearly died’: Taba, the tobacco drug Gambian women share in secret. Though not illegal, doctors and activists warn about the dangers of the intravaginal use of the popular drug.
#Health × #The Gambia #Africa ×
#bbc.com. #Mar.18.2025 × US aid freeze: Nigeria and Kenya among nations running out of HIV drugs - WHO. The warning comes as Africa begins to feel the impact of a massive review into US aid by Trump.
#Health × #Politics #Nigeria #Kenya #Africa × #USA #North America
#theguardian.com. #Mar.18.2025 × ‘It’s back to drug rationing’: the end of HIV was in sight. Then came the cuts. The abrupt halt to US funding threatens to undo decades of advances, dramatically increasing infections and deaths, but some see an opportunity for Africa to lead the response
#Health × #Africa × #USA #North America
#voanews.com. #Mar.14.2025 × Africa faces diabetes crisis, study finds. Researchers say poor eating habits, lack of health care access, obesity and physical inactivity are key drivers of diabetes in Africa
#Health × #Africa × #USA #North America #Americas
#aljazeera.com. #Mar.14.2025 × MSF warns of ‘rapidly spreading’ outbreak as cholera kills 31 in Ethiopia. The charity says the situation has worsened with the arrival of refugees from South Sudan, where thousands are infected.
#Health × #Sudan #Ethiopia #cholera #Africa × #South Sudan
#aljazeera.com. #Mar.11.2025 × Most of the world’s population is breathing dirty air: Report. IQAir study finds that Chad, Bangladesh, Pakistan, India and the Democratic Republic of Congo have the dirtiest air.
#Health × #Africa × #Asia #Chad #India #Pakistan #Bangladesh #Republic of the Congo #Democratic Republic of the Congo
#bbc.com. #Mar.08.2025 × Nigeria leprosy: Vital drugs due in the country after year's delay. Newly diagnosed patients may have suffered irreversible damage as a result of not having the drugs.
#Health × #Nigeria #Africa × #leprosy
#voanews.com. #Mar.08.2025 × Cholera killed nearly 100 in Sudan over 2 weeks, aid group says. Waterborne disease outbreak began in Sudan's White Nile State
#Health × #Sudan #cholera #Africa × #USA #North America #Americas
#theguardian.com. #Mar.07.2025 × Trump’s attacks on South Africa are a punishment for independence | Achille Mbembe and Ruth Wilson Gilmore. The US president’s cuts to health funding could lead to half a million deaths. They’re part of a strategy to condemn and isolate the country
#Health × #Politics #Africa × #South Africa #USA #North America
#theguardian.com. #Mar.06.2025 × Nearly half of women in Africa will be obese or overweight by 2030 – study. Stigma, lack of treatment and disproportionate rise of the disease in women draws comparisons with HIV epidemic
#Health × #Africa ×
#wired.com. #Mar.03.2025 × A Lethal Mystery Illness Is Spreading in Congo. USAID Cuts Have Slowed the Response. Gutting USAID is already having a devastating impact around the world. In the Democratic Republic of Congo, teams that would normally be racing to identify a fatal sickness are gone.
#Health × #Politics #Tech #Africa × #USA #North America #Republic of the Congo #Democratic Republic of the Congo
#aljazeera.com. #Mar.02.2025 × Four-year-old dies from Ebola amid new outbreak in Uganda. The latest Ebola outbreak, the sixth in Uganda, was declared at the end of January.
#Health × #PublicHoliday #Uganda #New Year's Eve #Africa × #New Year #Ebola hemorrhagic fever
#voanews.com. #Mar.02.2025 × Uganda reports second Ebola death, a 4-year-old, WHO says. Fatality brings the number of confirmed cases in Uganda to 10
#Health × #Uganda #Africa × #USA #North America #Ebola hemorrhagic fever #Americas
#voanews.com. #Mar.01.2025 × WHO says water contamination suspected in Congo village hit by illness. Doctors are investigating more than 1,000 illnesses that have emerged since late January in five villages in Congo's Equateur province
#Health × #Africa × #USA #North America #Americas #Republic of the Congo #Democratic Republic of the Congo
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