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Health and Well-being

Health and Well-being

Success at Nyarugusu: How one of the world¡¯s largest refugee camps achieved zero maternal deaths in 2022

By UNFPA
High childbirth mortality in Malawi is due to ¡°a cocktail of factors
Health and Well-being

12, 000 births, zero deaths: Malawians celebrate hero midwife Charity Salima

-- She also raises awareness about the dangers of teenage pregnancy
By Audrey Simango
Mr. Koffi Kouame with a group of people in Madagascar.
Health and Well-being

Madagascar: Glimpse of hope amidst severe droughts

UNFPA giving health services to women and girls in arid Grand Sud.
By Koffi Kouame
Ghana¡¯s community nurses deliver child health care amid COVID-19
Health and Well-being

Ghana¡¯s community nurses deliver child health care amid COVID-19

World Health Organization
By WHO
A laboratory studies student taking a blood sample for a routine antenatal malaria test at a government hospital in Ghana. Photo credit: Panos/Nyani Quarmyne
Health and Well-being

Public health schemes: Getting it right

Ghana grapples with making health care universally accessible
Franck Kuwonu
By Franck Kuwonu
Surgeons in the operating theatre at a Bangalore hospital, Bangalore , India. Photo credit: Panos/B. Lawley
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
Pavithra Rao
By Pavithra Rao
A nurse takes blood sample from a baby to test for malaria in Manhia, Mozambique. AMO/ L. W.
Health and Well-being

Gains made in fight against malaria

Africa is finally making headway in its decades-long fight against malaria
Amelia Tan
By Amelia Tan
Dr. Matshidiso Moeti, head the World Health Organization¡¯s Regional Office for Africa. Photo credit: WHO
Health and Well-being

We can improve health systems in Africa

¡ª Dr. Matshidiso Moeti
Tefo Pheage
By Tefo Pheage
Health workers attend to patients at a camel mobile clinic in Samburu, Kenya. Photo credit: CHAT
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
A coffee farmer from Musasa, Rwanda, shows her health insurance card. Panos/Andrew Esiebo
Health and Well-being

It¡¯s time to rethink medical insurance

A mobile phone plan in Kenya targets low-income groups
Masimba Tafirenyika
By Masimba Tafirenyika