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10/05/2021

The 21st of April marked the first successful operation carried out at Cure Children’s Hospital of Zimbabwe - the country's first facility to provide life-changing medical care to children free of charge.
In the picture Doctor Colleen Msasanure and colleagues.

“KidsOR have partnered with CURE International, Inc. to provide equipment for the two operating rooms within the hospital. The hospital treats children with severe deformities, referred from public hospitals for specialist attention.
We are thrilled to be working together to provide first-class care, which will transform lives and improve the future for thousands of children with a treatable disability.”
-KidsOR

01/05/2021

Almost all to***co farming now takes place in 𝗹𝗼𝘄 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗺𝗶𝗱𝗱𝗹𝗲-𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀. This causes massive 𝗲𝗻𝘃𝗶𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗱𝗮𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗲 such as mass deforestation and air pollution, and the industry’s poor safety practices leave to***co farmers – 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝘄𝗵𝗶𝗰𝗵 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗿𝗲𝗻 – prone to developing serious life-threatening illnesses.⁣⁣
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Around 1.1 billion people aged 15 and over smoke, with 80% living in LMICs (low and middle income countries). To***co growing and consumption have become concentrated in the developing world where the health, economic, and environmental burden is heaviest and likely to increase.⁣⁣
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Evidence shows that the number of smokers in LMICs has been rising and is likely to continue rising without the enforcement of stringent to***co controls. 𝗔𝗱𝗼𝗹𝗲𝘀𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘀𝗺𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝗹𝘀𝗼 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗯𝗹𝘆 𝗵𝗶𝗴𝗵 𝗶𝗻 𝗟𝗠𝗜𝗖𝘀, 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗞.⁣
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The health burden of smoking is disproportionately high in the developing world. By 2030, it is estimated that tens of millions of people in the developing world would have died from to***co consumption. The majority of child deaths from second-hand smoke also occur in 𝗔𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵-𝗘𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗔𝘀𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗮𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗲.⁣
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Smoking in the developing world has been 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗰𝗲 𝗽𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘁𝘆 as already deprived smokers spend less on healthcare, children’s education, food, and clothes.⁣⁣
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Transnational to***co companies have been shown to 𝘁𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗿𝗲𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗱𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀. They also undermine efforts to curb the harms of to***co through litigation against governments around the world

13/04/2021

Our next collaboration will be with Next In Health () ⁣
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Next in Health is a blog page dedicated to improving health inequalities and improving inclusivity in health care and medicine. Our aim is to do so by drawing from the past, learning in our present and redefining the future of healthcare to be reflective of our global society⁣
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What is Climate Health Justice?⁣
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climate change affects our environment and consequently has an impact on public health and the survival of those that live on the resources of their natural environment. ⁣

LINK IN BIO TO READ THE BLOG!!!

07/04/2021

World Health Day is observed every year on April 7 since 1950. This day is aimed at creating awareness of a specific health theme and also to highlight a priority area of concern for the World Health Organisation (WHO).⁣
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Other aim of this day is to acknowledge the efforts of healthcare workers and the success of the WHO. The focus of this year's World Health Day is to ensure equitable access to healthcare facilities around the globe.⁣
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The theme of this year's World Health Day is "building a fairer, healthier world". This is a priority area of concern for the WHO as the COVID-19 crisis put the spotlight back on the inequity in healthcare system and how some people are able to stay healthier simply because of where they are born and their economic conditions.⁣
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WHO added that most of the diseases faced by these groups are preventable. The WHO stated, "As COVID-19 has highlighted, some people are able to live healthier lives and have better access to health services than others-entirely due to the conditions in which they are born, grow, live, work and age." The organisation has proposed a four-step strategy of working together, collecting reliable data, tackling inequities and acting beyond borders to achieve this goal.

31/03/2021

Africa is estimated to lose over $1billion a year on medical tourism abroad, according to World Bank statistics for 2015. Africa is exporting money and patients to the East, especially India.⁣
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Professor Khama Rogo of the World Bank says that much as Africa is heavily resource constrained, a lot of money is spent on treatment abroad that could have instead helped develop capacity locally.⁣
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according to Rogo, we are exporting money and patients to the East, especially India, which has largely contributed to a flourishing private health sector at the expense of Africa’s.⁣
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Capacity and quality still remain a major problem for the region and Uganda in particular. For any hospital to build the confidence of clients for major procedures, it must have a history of success. Most referrals abroad are for oncology, cardiovascular and joint or spinal surgeries.⁣
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There is an urgent need for partnerships between government and private healthcare providers across Africa but private operators are wary of confusing government policy, governments making and breaking promises and corruption at all levels.

24/03/2021

Each year, we recognize World TB Day on March 24. This annual event commemorates the date in 1882 when Dr. Robert Koch announced his discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacillus that causes tuberculosis (TB). World TB Day is a day to educate the public about the impact of TB around the world.⁣
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TB remains one of the world’s deadliest infectious killers. ⁣
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This is especially critical in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic that has put End TB progress at risk, and to ensure equitable access to prevention and care in line with WHO’s drive towards achieving Universal Health Coverage.

20/03/2021

[repost] Tanzania has sworn its first female Muslim president, Samia Suluhu Hassan, days after she announced the death of her predecessor John Magufuli who suddenly died of a heart attack.⁣
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The 61-year-old politician was the country’s vice president under Magufuli's presidency, and her sudden rise to the top of Tanzanian politics has made history in the country of 58 million and the continent. Hassan is the third Muslim president in the country's history and joins Ethiopia's Sahle-Work Zewde as the only other current serving female head of state in Africa. ⁣
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In a televised swearing-in ceremony Friday, Hassan, who is also affectionately known as Mama Samia, in a sign of high respect that she is held in the country, took the oath of office in Dar es Salaam before inspecting troops at a military parade and receiving a cannon salute. ⁣
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She described her sorrow at the events leading to her inauguration and urged unity. “Today I took the highest oath of office in mourning,” she said. "This is a time to bury our differences, and be one as a nation," she added. "This is not a time for finger pointing, but it is a time to hold hands and move forward together."⁣
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Under the constitution, she will serve the remainder of Magufuli's second five-year term, which does not expire until 2025. ⁣Photo: STR/AFP

03/03/2021

Africa has a long history of inoculation/variolation (old practices with the same scope of vaccination)
Which of these facts did you know?

25/02/2021

Ghana has become the first country to receive coronavirus vaccines through the Covax vaccine-sharing initiative.⁣
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A delivery of 600,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine arrived in Accra on Wednesday. The first recipients are due to be healthcare workers.⁣
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The Covax scheme aims to reduce the divide between rich countries and poorer nations unable to buy doses.⁣
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The programme is planning to deliver about two billion vaccine doses globally by the end of the year.

21/02/2021

Here is pt.2 of what happened in Global Health in 2020, possibly the craziest months, but as we know it’s very relative 😬

From May to August the pandemic and public sentiment became global.

10/02/2021

If we wanted to, we could list a COVID-19 moment for every month of 2020.

We all know that the onset of the coronavirus pandemic—first in China and then worldwide—overwhelmed news coverage this year. And with good reason. It’s the first large-scale global pandemic in 100 years. At the time this article was published, it has killed more than 1.6 million people worldwide. And over 73 million people have been diagnosed with the infectious disease.

But a lot of other things happened in global health in 2020—and many of us may not have heard about them. Here are some of the moments we didn’t and won’t forget.

08/02/2021

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