Mbabane – Marcia Motsa, a human-resources professional and mother of two, from Manzini, Eswatini, started her journey with blood donation during high school, when the local blood bank visited and provided detailed inform…
Read moreDar es Salam – “I remember hearing the news that I was infected with Marburg like it happened yesterday. It was one of the most challenging periods for me,” recalls Dr Mahona Jumanne Ndulu, who works at Bukoba Regional R…
Read moreTitus Mwanza switched from farming tobacco to cultivating diverse crops such as soybeans, sunflowers, groundnuts and maize four years ago, after his family faced health and economic challenges associated with tobacco farming.
Read moreNouakchott – Ifrah, 36, started smoking at just 13 years of age and never thought he would ever quit. Smoking was common in his home neighbourhood of Cansado in Nouadhibou, Mauritania, and he simply followed by example. …
Read morePretoria ‒ Tobacco consumption in Africa presents complex public health, economic and environmental challenges and requires a multisectoral approach to prevention and control. Professor Lekan Ayo-Yusuf of the Africa Cent…
Read moreLilongwe ‒ Shombe Banda from Kasungu District in Central Malawi was a tobacco farmer for 35 years. He recently switched to growing other crops, such as soya beans, groundnuts and maize. His motivation to change was mostl…
Read moreNanoro, Burkina Faso – Sister Marie Blanche Kambire has more than 20 years of experience as a nurse. She lives in Nanoro, a rural area 85 kilometres west of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso’s capital. A Catholic nun, she h…
Read more Maputo – Nine-year-old Ana Sitoe and Isabel Cossa*, learners at Guava Primary School in Marracuene, Maputo, have both received their first vaccine against human papillomavirus (HPV) thanks to an immunization drive …
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