Cough syrup deaths: Gambia mulls legal action
PAP SAINE and EDWARD MCALLISTER GAMBIA has hired a U.S. law firm to explore legal action after a government-backed investigation
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Cholera death toll rises to over 420 in Cameroon
AMINDEH BLAISE ATABONG A further 26 people have died in Cameroon’s ongoing cholera outbreak in the past two weeks, taking
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‘High bio-hazard risk’ in Sudan after laboratory seized, WHO says
GABRIELLE TÉTRAULT-FARBER and EMMA FARGE THERE is a “high risk of biological hazard” in Sudan’s capital Khartoum after one of
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More African countries set to approve malaria shot; 20 million doses ready in 2023
JENNIFER RIGBY AFRICAN countries are lining up to approve a new vaccine for malaria, with 20 million doses available for them to
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Ghana first to approve Oxford’s malaria vaccine
NATALIE GROVER and JENNIFER RIGBY GHANA has become the first country in the world to approve a new malaria vaccine
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Why Ebola sex abuse victims may never find justice
PAISLEY DODDS KETSIA* said she was working as a part-time cleaner for the World Health Organization during the 2018 Ebola outbreak in the Democratic
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Polio: leading virologist offers a beginner’s guide to the different viruses and vaccines
ON 17 March 2023, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that health officials in Burundi and the Democratic Republic of
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Equatorial Guinea confirms eight more Marburg cases
EIGHT new confirmed cases of Marburg disease have been reported in Equatorial Guinea, the World Health Organization (WHO) said. This
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Too little too late, says victims of sex abuse
RODOLPHE MUKUNDI and ROBERT FLUMMERFELT NEARLY two dozen survivors of the UN’s largest known sexual abuse scandal say the World Health Organization
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WHO sex abuse scandal: Victims say help is too little too late
RODOLPHE MUKUNDI and ROBERT FLUMMERFELT NEARLY two dozen survivors of the UN’s largest known sexual abuse scandal say the World Health Organization
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