USHA LEE McFARLING Black people in counties with more Black primary care physicians live longer, according to a new national analysis that provides the strongest evidence yet that increasing the diversity of the medical workforce may be key to ending deeply entrenched racial health disparities. The study, published Friday April 14, in JAMA Network Open, […]
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UN experts are deeply concerned over delays in reaching an agreement on the restructuring of Zambia’s debt and its corresponding negative human rights impact on peoples’ lives. “We are worried that despite positive reforms undertaken by the Government of Zambia, the delays in sovereign debt restructuring compromise its ability to mobilize and maximize resources for […]
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The west African country has cleared its use in children aged between five months and three years FAUSTINE NGILA An Oxford University-developed vaccine against malaria has been approved and cleared for use in Ghana, its first such approval in the world. R21/Matrix-M has shown great success during its trials in Burkina Faso. While the WHO’s […]
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JOANNE SILBERNER Chapurukha Kusimba was a young boy in Kenya in the 1960s just as many African nations were attaining independence from western European countries. The power and success of African nationalists impressed him. So did the archaeological discoveries of ancient humans by the Leakey family showing, as he saw it, that “to be human […]
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Income inequality varies widely across countries “Night and day my heart is bleeding,” sings the Zimbabwean artiste Winky D on his new album. “When I look at the poor and needy, everything gone with the greedy.” It seems the authorities do not share his concern. Last month the police stormed the stage mid-performance and shut […]
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The $400m state-funded church has become hugely controversial in Ghana even as the country pursues an IMF loan due to huge debt and economic woes. KENT MENSAH “I made a pledge to almighty God that He was gracious enough to grant my party, the NPP, and I victory in the 2016 elections after two unsuccessful […]
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More than half of new infections were among people aged 15 to 24, and the pandemic lockdowns only tell part of the story. Here’s a look at how we got here—and what we can do about it. ALLIE YANG Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are skyrocketing in the United States, according to the latest data, as […]
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President Cyril Ramaphosa said Tuesday April 25, his ruling ANC party had resolved that South Africa should quit the International Criminal Court, which in March issued an arrest warrant against Russian President Vladimir Putin. The ICC issued an arrest warrant against Putin in March meaning Pretoria, due to host Brazil, Russia, India, China and South […]
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“Heirs of Slavery” will lobby the UK government, alongside Caribbean nations, for a formal apology and reparative justice AURORA ALMENDRAL The slave trade helped make their families rich. But, two centuries later, a handful of British aristocrats, part of a new organization called Heirs of Slavery, are lobbying the UK government to offer a formal […]
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ZEENAT HANSROD Belgian researchers report that 45 percent of deforestation in Côte d’Ivoire in the past decade is the result of unregulated cocoa production. Researchers from the Belgian university of Louvain found that 45 percent of the destruction of forest in Côte d’Ivoire between 2000 and 2019 was the result of unregulated cocoa production. Tropical […]
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