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    The power of African creativity: Our time is now!
    The power of African creativity: Our time is now! 
    Doctors and medical practitioners under the Kenya Medical Practitioners Pharmacists and Dentists Union (KMPDU) participate in a demonstration to demand payment of their salary arrears and the immediate hiring of trainee doctors, among other grievances, in Nairobi, Kenya, 16 April 2024. Reuters/Thomas Mukoya/File Photo
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     19 Jul 2019

    Photo: World Economic Forum
    20-million children miss out on lifesaving measles, diphtheria and tetanus vaccines in 2018

    16 Jul 2019

    A health worker administers the Ebola vaccine. EPA-EFE
    How the DRC's Ebola crisis has led to children dying from measles

     10 Jul 2019

    Countries can be better prepared and respond faster to disease outbreaks if public health data is shared more freely. Shutterstock
    Sharing data can help prevent public health emergencies in Africa

     8 Jul 2019

    #Newsmaker: "PR is creative!" - Lebo Madiba, Ogilvy PR's new managing partner
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    Image: MSF
    Ambitious plans to vaccinate more than a million against cholera

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    Dr Dan Wu, postdoctoral fellow in the RCSI Department of Chemistry and first author on the paper
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