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Long droughts push girls to FGM, early marriages

The scorching sun on the plains of Kajiado Central is unforgiving to teenage girls who trek for several kilometres across…

5 years ago

Amref Tanzania engages in hygiene campaign, behavioral change in three regions

The Amref Health Africa -Tanzania has reached 87,154 pupils with hand washing facilities aimed at fighting COVID-19 spread and other…

5 years ago

Amref Health Africa Tanzania Hands Over Kits and Bicycles in Fight Against TB and Provision of Reproductive Health Services

Amref Health Africa Tanzania through its USAID Afya Shirikishi project, funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)…

5 years ago

Dangerous Price of COVID Rules for Women, Children in Africa

Sean Callaghan recalls the moment in late February 2020, sitting around a table with fellow researchers on a work trip…

5 years ago

Community Health Workers take TB fight head on

“WHEN someone talks about staring death in the face, I know exactly what it means, literally, because I practically stared…

5 years ago

AMREF Flying Doctors adds Special Mission Cessna Citation Sovereign to their air ambulance fleet

WICHITA, Kansas (August 3, 2021) – Textron Aviation today announced that AMREF Flying Doctors has added a pre-owned Cessna Citation…

5 years ago

Why Africa is perilously far behind on coronavirus vaccination

Even as the spread of the highly transmissible delta variant drags out the coronavirus pandemic, the prospect of mass vaccination…

5 years ago

Struggling global covid-19 response dims hopes for climate change action

Across the world, covid-19 is again surging. The global number of new coronavirus cases grew by at least 12 percent…

5 years ago

Why youth are avoiding Covid-19 vaccine

More than half of youth in Kenya are waiting to see how the Covid-19 vaccine affects those who have already received it…

5 years ago

Wildfire to publish Leng’ete memoir: The Girls in the Wild Fig Tree

Wildfire will publish The Girls in the Wild Fig Tree, a memoir from activist Nice Leng’ete, in partnership with Little,…

5 years ago