Kia Motors has joined forces with the Korea-based International Vaccine Institute (IVI) to provide an emergency vaccination program across the Nsanje district of southern Malawi. Kia will support IVI with the necessary funding to provide 110,000 doses of oral cholera vaccine for 50,000 people in the region, which has been …
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An Australian woman, who was hit by severe headache for several days, plugged a knife into her own head thinking it would stop the pains. But unknown to Amanda Murphy, the ache was caused by a tumour growing inside her ovary. Surgeons found hair and teeth inside the tumour when …
Read More »Healing Cameroonians Chinese style
Yaounde, Cameroon – On the day Hu Guang was supposed to fly back home to China’s Si Cuan Cheng Du province, she checked the weather. The forecast? Heavy snow and frigid temperatures. That’s the day Huang decided to remain in the dependably warm African country of Cameroon, with its mountainous landscapes and sunny …
Read More »Ebola-related deaths pass 10,000 mark
The tally of Ebola-related deaths has passed the grim milestone of 10,000, mostly in West Africa, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said. The UN health agency said on Thursday that Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone alone had reported 10,004 confirmed, probable and suspected deaths from the virus since the beginning of the biggest-ever Ebola outbreak …
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