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Kenyan president Ruto to launch Community Health Promoters Kit to counties

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Kenyan President during During the unveiling of kits to the 100,000 Community Health Promoters to the 47 County Governments at Uhuru Park, Nairobi County.

President William Ruto will today launch the distribution of 100,000 kits to be used by Community Health Promoters. The Head of State returned on Sunday after a 10-day visit to…

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After a year of severe economic collapse in Sri Lanka, the nation’s public health institutions are in ruins, suffering from a lack of drugs, postponed procedures, and a flight of…

Commonwealth Health Ministers Meeting 2023

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The 35th Commonwealth Health Ministers Meeting (CHMM) is set to take place on 20 May in Geneva, Switzerland under the theme “Getting Universal Health Coverage in the Commonwealth on track…

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The 2022 senior secondary certificate exams in Namibia have seen poor results as the government cited COVID-19 as a contributing factor. The Namibia Senior Secondary Certificate Ordinary level is a…

Ghana makes progress in malaria elimination

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Ghana has seen a year-on-year decrease in malaria cases over 2022, shows data from the National Malaria Elimination Programme (NMEP). The country has recorded a total of 3,745,398 confirmed malaria…

Measles outbreak declared as South African classrooms reopen

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The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) has warned measles cases could surge in South Africa as classrooms reopen. The NICD confirmed that from epidemiological week 40 of 2022 to…

University of Manitoba, Africa to study mpox

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The University of Manitoba has partnered with the Congolese National Biomedical Research Institute (INRB) to conduct a multi-faceted study on monkeypox. The study aims to investigate monkeypox spread outside of…