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- GFAN Africa Urges Focus on All Life Threatening Diseases Amid COVID-19 Commonwealth Health Ministers meet every year. This year, the meeting took place virtually on 14 May 2020. The theme of the meeting was delivering… Read more
- #TheBeatContinues for Increased Domestic Resources for Health to END Malaria In 1897 Ronald Ross working in India discovered that culicine mosquitoes transmitted the avian malaria parasite Plasmodium relictum and suggested that human malaria parasites… Read more
- How I used advocacy skills learnt in Addis Ababa to educate people on COVID-19 in Ghana I am Esmond Wedam Nonterah a Youth Leader for Health (YLH). YLH is a joint program by WACI health, RESULTS UK, Health Promotion Tanzania-HDT,… Read more
- A TYPICAL WEEK AS AN ADVOCATE WORKING ON ISSUES FOR IMPROVED CHILD PROTECTION AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH BY: MOSES KODAH, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR-NETWORK OF ADVOCACY FOR YOUTH EMPOWERMENT My name is Moses Sorie Kodah. I am a youth leader for health working… Read more
- Data Is Important: Assessing the Impacts of COVID-19 on Girls By: Amiry Abdallah Kaiza I am a health advocate and I believe in evidence-based advocacy. My name is Amiry Abdallah Kaiza. I live in… Read more
- WHY SENTENCE CHILDREN BELOW FIVE YEARS AND PREGNANT WOMEN TO DEATH? By: Aliu Iddrisu I am a self-motivated person who aims for positive change. I strive to contribute to a world of respect and gratitude.… Read more
- My voice as a clinician, a health advocate and a community member Conflict or opportunity? By: Ahmed Uzairu I bring you greetings from the Nandom District in the Upper West Region of Ghana where we are experiencing a meningitis… Read more
- Life in a Community in Navrongo, Ghana – Through the Lens of a Youth Leader for Health By: Esmond Wedam Nonterah, BSc I live in Navrongo in the Upper East Region, approximately 814 km from Ghana’s capital, Accra. I am a… Read more
- COVID-19: YOUNG PEOPLE HAVE A TASK TODAY AND TOMORROW By: Aloyce P. Urassa, Youth Leader for Health-Tanzania Every time I listen or watch the news, I learn the world is speaking one language.… Read more
- HOW COVID-19 HAS AFFECTED DAILY LIVES IN MY COMMUNITY By: Naana Adiki Manyeyo Adi I, Executive Director AA CommAid Foundation My name is Naana Adiki Manyeyo Adi I, Queen of the Royal Adibiawe… Read more
- When unexpected guest strike in We were as joyous as a river during the yuletide (Christmas moment), when an unexpected guest strike in. Tinier than the smallest atom and… Read more
- The cost of inaction: COVID-19-related service disruptions could cause hundreds of thousands of extra deaths from HIV Gains made in preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV could be reversed, with new HIV infections among children up by as much as 104% A… Read more