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How Budget Deficit Is Costing Psychiatric Patients Medication In Ghana
The Mental Health Authority in Ghana has reported increasing difficulties in providing needed medications for psychiatric patients as the budget allocated to the sector continues to plunge. The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Mental Health Authority, Prof Akwasi Osei, explained that the sector only receives an average of just 30 per cent of its…
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Endemic: Wild Polio Resurfaces In Malawi After Five Years
Malawi has recorded an outbreak of the Wild Poliovirus in the country’s capital Lilongwe after a three-year-old girl was reported to have developed the virus investigated to be similar to a strain circulating in Pakistan. The highly infectious wild poliovirus, a major cause of total paralysis in children was last detected in Nigeria’s Borno State…
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Health Statistics In Nigeria
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East Africa: Caught Between Drought And Conflict
On the peninsula often referred to as the Horn of Africa lies drylands that stretch up to 637,657 km2. This is Somalia, home to over 15 million people suffering from the harshest impacts of climate change as well as escalating internal conflicts. Somalia is on the frontline of climate change and has experienced more than 30…
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2.4 Million People In Need Of Urgent Aide As Drought Lingers In Kenya
Since September, much of Kenya’s north has received less than 30 percent of normal rainfall – the worst short-rain season recorded in decades, according to the Famine Early Warning Systems Network. The lack of rainfall has wiped out pastures and exacerbated food and water shortages. Last month, the United Nations said it predicted about 2.4…
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Climate Change: Global Temperature Rises To 2.7-Degree Celsius
The United Nations has again asked that G20 countries come through on their promise to reduce carbon pollution as the planet’s temperature rises to a catastrophic average of 2.7-degree Celsius in this century. Just days before the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, the UN’s Environment Programme (UNEP) urged countries to be more committed to greenhouse…
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EU Blocks Funds To WHO in DRC Over Cases Of Sexual Abuse
The European Union has temporarily blocked funding for the WHO in the DRC, following several accounts of sexual abuse by employees of the organization in the central African country. The European Union’s executive in a statement last Friday said it “has temporarily suspended the payments and will refrain from awarding new funding related to the…
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700,000 People Affected By Floods In South Sudan
The worst flooding that parts of South Sudan have seen in 60 years now drowns the homes of 700,000 people, according to the UN’s latest reports. This is the third straight year of extreme flooding in South Sudan, further imperilling the livelihoods of many of the 11 million people in the world’s youngest country. A…
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Fossil Fuel Producers To Exceed 1.5C Climate Target
A report published by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) on Wednesday found that governments are still planning to extract double the amount of fossil fuels in 2030 than what would be consistent with the 2015 Paris climate accord’s goal of keeping the global temperature rise below 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit). The Production Gap report,…
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Ebola Vaccination Begins In Eastern DRC
Vaccination against Ebola has commenced in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo after a new outbreak was recorded in the region weeks ago. Five months after the country declared an end to the last outbreak that killed six people, new cases were reported in the first week of October, claiming the lives of 2 people. Health…