Health under attack: WHO response in Burkina Faso
Armed violence. Drought. Floods. In Burkina Faso, these three factors have forced nearly half a million people – three-quarters of whom are women and children
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When microfinance leads to major healing: Bridging agriculture and health in Senegal
Astou Dieng recently joined a savings group cooperative with many other women farmers that is changing her health and the health of her family. These women in Senegal’s Kaffrine region are doing something novel with t…
Read moreKeeping Ebola response running: A logistician’s take
Djamilou Abdoulkarim, a Central African Republic national, leads a team of World Health Organization (WHO) logisticians supporting the Ebola response in Butembo, a city in north-eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. He took up the job in April 2019, heading a 49-member team. Mr Abdoulkarim first stepped into the logistics and operations world in 2005 and has worked in eight African countries, including his own.
Read moreThe power of peers: An adolescent idea for managing HIV rises
Zvandiri is a life-changing peer-to-peer programme of Africaid that started in Zimbabwe and is helping to improve adherence to antiretroviral medication among children, adolescents and young people and thus promoting viral suppression.
Read moreNearly 23 million voluntary male medical circumcisions in Africa’s HIV prevention drive
WHO estimates that nearly 23 million voluntarily male medical circumcisions have averted some 250 000 HIV infections in 15 Eastern and Southern African countries between 2008 and 2018.
Read moreAntimicrobial resistance on his own leg turns a Kenyan health worker into an advocate for wiser use of antibiotics
Josphat, a health worker based in Nairobi, needed a skin graft on his leg in 2013. But then, what is typically a common procedure nowadays became a medical nightmare.
Read moreEbola vaccinations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo – In the community, by the community
The courtyard of the Musuniene Health Centre, normally quiet, rings with the sounds of adolescents running, playing and chatting in the open space, undaunted by the intense heat. The youth – all students at the Centre Pr…
Read moreDiabetes is a family affair in Kenya
Alara Amin was 4 years old when she was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. In the five years since, she has become actively involved in managing her condition, which is also a family and school affair. Even her 4-year-old brother understands that she must have insulin injections three times a day.
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