Bata – Juan de Dios, a nurse in the emergency unit of the hospital in Bata, a port city in Equatorial Guinea, still remembers the frequent calls for help that echoed through the corridors: “There’s no oxygen!” “It w…
Read moreAlgiers – Brahim, a 14-year-old student, has been visiting the local health centre in Cherchell every week for a year to participate in individual therapy sessions and receive career guidance. “I came to seek help for my…
Read moreSince 2018, Maulete Joaquim has experienced two complication-free births at Songo Rural Hospital in Mozambique’s western Tete province; she gave birth to her youngest daughter here in 2023. “The hospital takes really good care of their patients,” she says. “Everything went well and all three of us are fine up to today.”
Read moreNairobi – 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 turn away clients.Today, the scen…
Read moreBrazzaville – “Previously, I avoided going to the integrated health centre (IHC) due to the high cost of care and poor reception," says Christine, 58, who lives in Nzalangoye, in Ouesso District in northern Congo. I…
Read moreAs countries step up mpox outbreak control measures, efforts are also being made to ensure essential health services such as maternal and child-care, immunization, HIV treatment and chronic disease management are maintained to avert disruptions that can threaten people’s health.
Read moreKigali - Esther Uwababyeyi's journey with HIV began at a young age. "Since the age of three, I've been on HIV treatment,” she says. Born in 2002, Uwababyeyi was infected during her mother’s pregnancy, a time when access …
Read moreMalabo – In Equatorial Guinea, where over 6% of the population lives with HIV, access to antiretroviral (ARV) treatment was limited to just two centres in the provincial capitals of Malabo and Bata until 2017. This restr…
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