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Africa Renewal

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

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

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

— Dr. Matshidiso Moeti

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