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Health and Well-being

One-stop care centre helps women amid South Sudan’s epidemic of violence

By United Nations
Health and Well-being

UNMISS transports fistula-affected women to Bentiu for treatment

By United Nations
Health and Well-being

Dying from lack of medicines

Encouraging local production, right policies the way out

By Tefo Pheage
Health and Well-being

Taking health services to remote areas

Mobile camel clinics, motorbike ambulances and other innovations for reaching rural folk

By Kwamboka Oyaro
Health and Well-being

India’s medical tourism gets Africans’ attention

Many lured by affordable treatment, state-of-the art equipment, top-notch doctors and follow-up care

By Pavithra Rao
Health and Well-being

Mental illness: Invisible but devastating

Superstitution often blamed for acute mental health diseases

By Lansana Gberie
Health and Well-being

Wanted: affordable medicines for all

UN panel calls for new global accords to make drugs cheaper

By Franck Kuwonu
Health and Well-being

Africa's new strategies to defeat HIV/AIDS

Prevention, treatment and care cut new infections by 14%

By Juliette Martin
Health and Well-being

We can improve health systems in Africa

— Dr. Matshidiso Moeti

By Tefo Pheage
Health and Well-being

Public health schemes: Getting it right

Ghana grapples with making health care universally accessible

By Franck Kuwonu