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Biden signs memorandum reversing Trump abortion access restrictions
By CNN,
939, January 29, 2021 (EAT)
President Joe Biden signed a presidential memorandum on Thursday to reverse restrictions on abortion access domestically and abroad imposed and expand...
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Magufuli criticized for dismissing COVID-19 vaccines
By VOA,
750, January 29, 2021 (EAT)
Tanzanian President John Magufuli’s sharp rejection of COVID-19 vaccines was met Thursday with criticism, concern and confusion. Magufuli in a sp...
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Malaria deaths to exceed COVID-19 in sub-Saharan Africa
By Reuters,
1029, November 30, 2020 (EAT)
Deaths from malaria due to disruptions during the coronavirus pandemic to services designed to tackle the mosquito-borne disease will far exceed those...
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Biden win seen as green light for women’s reproductive rights
By Reuters,
858, November 9, 2020 (EAT)
Democrat Joe Biden as U.S. president will bring sweeping changes to women’s reproductive rights globally, starting with overturning a U.S. policy ba...
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COVID-19 could push 49 million Africans into extreme poverty
By CNN,
1148, October 29, 2020 (EAT)
It is now widely recognized that in Africa, the Covid-19 pandemic is on a different trajectory than much of the rest of the world, including the West....
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Miners face new tuberculosis threat as COVID-19 disrupts treatment
By Reuters,
638, October 27, 2020 (EAT)
Vama Jele’s heart dropped every time he heard that another migrant miner home from South Africa had died from tuberculosis (TB) due to skipping trea...
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Uhuru cautions against letting global COVID-19 response disrupt malaria fight
By PSCU,
749, October 20, 2020 (EAT)
President Uhuru Kenyatta has appealed to the global community not to allow the fight against COVID-19 interfere with efforts to eradicate malaria, pol...
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UK study tests if BCG vaccine protects against COVID
By Reuters,
1619, October 11, 2020 (EAT)
The widely used BCG tuberculosis vaccine will be tested on frontline care workers in Britain for its effectiveness against COVID-19, researchers runni...
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Kenya risks losing Ksh.12B from Global Fund
By Faizal Ahmed,
1632, September 12, 2020 (EAT)
The gains made in the war on HIV, TB and Malaria could be compromised if Global Fund withdraws support to Kenya in the next round of funding. The G...
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KNUN Secretary General Seth Panyako asks CS Kagwe to resign
By Zipporah Kariuki,
1236, August 30, 2020 (EAT)
The Kenya National Union of Nurses (KNUN) Secretary-General, Seth Panyako has asked Health CS Mutahi Kagwe to resign. Speaking in Kakamega on Sunda...
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KEMSA scandal: USAID, Global Fund threaten to withdraw Ksh.400B
By Sam Ogina,
2228, August 20, 2020 (EAT)
Two key donors have threatened to withdraw up to Ksh.400 billion earmarked for Kenya following the latest COVID-19 scandal linked to a government agen...
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Asymptomatic spreaders may hold keys to COVID-19 mysteries
By CNN,
1541, January 11, 2021 (EAT)
As US leaders work to control the spread of coronavirus, researchers across the country -- and globe -- are working to answer the mysteries that remai...
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COVID-19 in South Africa: How inequality, poverty undermined country’s response
By Reuters,
1508, July 31, 2020 (EAT)
When coronavirus patients started arriving at South Africa’s government-run Thelle Mogoerane Hospital, workers scrambled to set up isolation wards t...
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Bill Gates calls for COVID-19 meds to go to people who need them, not ‘highest bidder’
By Reuters,
1435, July 12, 2020 (EAT)
Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates called for COVID-19 drugs and an eventual vaccine to be made available to countries and people that need them mo...
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Trump threatens permanent freeze of WHO funding, review of U.S. membership
By Reuters,
948, May 19, 2020 (EAT)
U.S. President Donald Trump threatened on Monday to permanently halt funding for the World Health Organization (WHO) if it did not commit to improveme...
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South Africa records 6,336 coronavirus cases, highest on the continent
By Citizen Reporter,
314, May 3, 2020 (EAT)
Coronavirus infections in South Africa have risen to 6,336 the highest in the continent. A statement from Health Minister Zweli Mkhize on Saturday ...
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COVID-19 crisis provides impetus to accelerate African regional integration
By Citizen Reporter,
1237, May 1, 2020 (EAT)
The global response to the COVID-19 pandemic must be coordinated and targeted at livelihoods to prevent an upsurge in inequality, delegates at an Afri...
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South Sudan, a country of 12 million people, has only 4 ventilators
By CNN,
1043, April 19, 2020 (EAT)
Covid-19 cases have topped 2.2 million globally and countries around the world are scrambling to buy life-saving equipment as the pandemic places ...
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Covid-19 pandemic will likely kill at least 300,000 Africans – U.N. agency
By Reuters,
1144, April 18, 2020 (EAT)
The COVID-19 pandemic will likely kill at least 300,000 Africans and risks pushing 29 million into extreme poverty, the U.N. Economic Commission for A...
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Coronavirus can spread through talking or even just breathing, experts tell White House
By CNN,
2245, April 4, 2020 (EAT)
A prestigious scientific panel told the White House Wednesday night that research shows coronavirus can be spread not just by sneezes or coughs, but a...
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