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    Omanyano ovanhu koikundaneki yomalungula kashili paveta, Commisiner Sakaria takunghilile Veronika Haulenga

Global health

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Health / Medical

January marks cervical cancer awareness month

January is Cervical Cancer Awareness Month. It's the fourth most common cancer in women globally and the second most common in Namibia. Cervical cancer affects women between 15 and 45, but it can be prevented. About 604,000 women worldwide got diagnosed with cervical cancer, and around 342,000 lost their lives to the disease in 2020. Here is the CEO of the Cancer Society of Namibia Rolf Hansen.

todayJanuary 15, 2024 118

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Business / Economics

Amidst Ongoing Global Crises, Gates Foundation announces largest annual budget ever: $8.6 Billion in 2024 to save and improve lives

  The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today announced its largest annual budget to date as it works toward the goal of a healthier, more prosperous world for all. With global health budgets in decline overall, a portion of the additional funding will go toward advancing global health innovations that will save and improve the lives of some of the world’s most vulnerable people, including newborn babies and pregnant mothers […]

todayJanuary 15, 2024 13

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Health / Medical

Namibia ranks 6th globally in alcohol consumption, surpasses South Africa

The latest World Health Organization global status report on alcohol and health shows that Namibia, Afghanistan, the Maldives, and Eswatini have a higher average daily intake than South Africa, with the list topped by Tunisia. Meanwhile, the global prevalence of alcohol dependence is at 2.4 percent, with a legal drinking age average of 18 years worldwide. According to the WHO, overall, 5.1% of the global burden of disease and injury […]

todayDecember 13, 2023 232

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Health / Medical

‘Let Communities Lead’ on World Aids Day 2023

Despite efforts to eliminate AIDS by 2030, marked by World AIDS Day on 1 December 2023 under the theme "Let Communities Lead," UNAIDS has stressed that the task is incomplete with its new report suggesting that achieving the ambitious goal is still possible with full support for frontline communities. The Deputy Executive Director for the UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), Angeli Achrekar, says that so far, the “job isn't done.” […]

todayNovember 30, 2023 32

Lymphatic Filariasis
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Africa

Patients’ beliefs about illness matter: the case of elephantiasis in rural Ghana

Kristi Heather Kenyon, University of Winnipeg; Alexander Kwarteng, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST); Colleen McMillan, University of Waterloo; Mary Asirifi, MacEwan University, and Regiane Garcia, Simon Fraser University Would you take medication for an illness you didn’t believe you had? Or if you disagreed with healthcare workers about the cause of your condition? This is the dilemma of many people who live in areas of Ghana where […]

todayNovember 23, 2023 6

Malaria
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Africa

Malaria: two groundbreaking vaccines have been developed, but access and rollout are still big stumbling blocks

By Rose Leke, Université de Yaounde 1 The approval of two malaria vaccines – the RTS,S/AS01 vaccine in 2021 and the R21/Matrix-MTM vaccine in 2023 – will help control, and eventually help eradicate, a disease that causes more than 600,000 deaths annually. Nearly 2 million children in Ghana, Kenya and Malawi have been vaccinated with the RTS,S/AS01 vaccine. It will be rolled out to more African countries from early next year. […]

todayNovember 23, 2023 6

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