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Trump policy raps Lesotho health services

MASERU – After-effects of the January 29 reinstatement of the US government’s Mexico City Policy by President Donald Trump are starting to be felt in the Southern African poverty-stricken tiny kingdom of Lesotho. Under this policy, foreign non-governmental organizations that receive family

HIV prevention cabotegravir
HIV prevention cabotegravir

Zimbabwe Approves Injectable Form of HIV Prevention Drug for Women

Zimbabwe has approved the use of an injectable form of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) called cabotegravir to help reduce the risk of HIV in sexually active women. The injectable form is administered every two months and has been tested in clinical trials in Zimbabwe and five other Sub-Saharan African countries since 2018. Over 3,000 women from

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FILE PHOTO: Director-General of the WHO Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, attends a news conference on the coronavirus (COVID-2019) in Geneva, Switzerland February 24, 2020. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse/File Photo - RC2C8F9BTAY3
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WHO suspends hydroxychloroquine trial

The World Health Organization has temporarily paused the use of anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine as part of a global effort to find a cure for Covid-19. The organisation’s executive board made the decision following a study published in the medical journal The Lancet on 20 May that showed that the drug increased mortality rates among Covid-19

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First Ebola relapse recorded in Congo outbreak, WHO says

Health officials in eastern Congo have documented the first relapse in the current Ebola epidemic, the World Health Organization said on Friday The Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo has so far infected more than 3,300 people and killed more than 2,200 since the middle of last year, making it the second-worst on record.

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A health worker checks the temperature of a man as he crosses the Mpondwe border point separating Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo as part of the ebola screening at the computerised Mpondwe Health Screening Facility in Mpondwe, Uganda June 13, 2019. REUTERS/Newton Nabwaya
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WHO likely to declare Ebola an international emergency -experts

 The World Health Organization (WHO) should and is likely to declare an international emergency over the Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo that has now spread to Uganda, experts said as a WHO advisory panel met on Friday. Congo’s epidemic is the second worst worldwide since West Africa’s Ebola outbreak in 2014-16, with

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