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'We grew as people': GSCC Health Sciences group looks back at mission trip to Malawi

The Gadsden Times 06 Dec 2023
The trip was made through the Chikondi Health Foundation in Montgomery, according to a news release from the college ... The Chikondi Health Foundation has a partnership with Blessings Hospital in Lumbadzi, Malawi, according to its website. “Chikondi” means “love” in the Chichewa language spoken in central Malawi ... with its health care system.
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At COP28, world leaders turn a belated spotlight on human health

Grist 06 Dec 2023
“For too long, health has been a footnote in climate discussions,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization, said on Sunday ...Climate change is increasingly impacting the health and well-being of our communities,” said President Lazarus Chakwera of Malawi, one of the initial backers of the declaration.
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Over 120 countries back COP28 UAE climate, health declaration

GDN Online 02 Dec 2023
They have become one of the greatest threats to human health in the 21st century ... "Climate change is increasingly impacting the health and wellbeing of our communities,” said Lazarus Chakwera, President of Malawi - one of the first countries to endorse the Declaration.
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COP28 in UAE: $1billion to address climate-health crisis announced

Gulf News 02 Dec 2023
The announcement of $1 billion for climate and health and the launch of a declaration to accelerate actions to protect people’s health from growing climate impacts headlined the third day COP28 as the Presidency spotlighted health for the first time in the history of the UN Climate Change Conference ... Climate crisis a health crisis.
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Infectious disease spreading in Malawi

Anadolu Agency 28 Nov 2023
A severe infectious disease in humans has been recorded in northern Malawi, health authorities said Tuesday ...The National Reference Laboratory further confirmed the diagnosis at the Public Health Institute of Malawi on Monday,” said Ndolo.
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Malawi records human anthrax case

Xinhua 28 Nov 2023
28 (Xinhua) -- The Ministry of Health in Malawi has confirmed a case of anthrax in humans in the country. Samson Mndolo, the country's secretary for health, announced the development in a statement ... 1, according to the Zambian Ministry of Health ... Malawi records human anthrax case.
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We must fight one of the world’s biggest health threats: climate change

China Daily 28 Nov 2023
The connection between health and climate change is obvious ... We have worked closely with a number of nations as country champions – including Brazil, Malawi, the UK, the US, the Netherlands, Kenya, Fiji, India, Egypt, Sierra Leone, and Germany – to develop a Declaration on Climate and Health, which we launch during the recent World Health Summit.
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Climate change among biggest health threats

China Daily 28 Nov 2023
We have worked closely with a number of nations as country champions — including Brazil, Malawi, the United Kingdom, the United States, the Netherlands, Kenya, Fiji, India, Egypt, Sierra Leone, and Germany — to develop a Declaration on Climate and Health, which we launch during the recent World Health Summit.
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Cameroon receives first shipment of GSK's Mosquirix malaria vaccine

Reuters 22 Nov 2023
A batch of 331,200 doses of the vaccine - also known as RTS,S - was offloaded at Yaounde's Nsimalen International Airport, making Cameroon the first African country to receive the vaccine after the pilot programmes in Ghana, Kenya and Malawi.
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Malawi: Malawi Told to Decriminalize Attempted Suicide

All Africa 22 Nov 2023
LifeLine ANPPCAN Malawi, a member of Lifeline International which focuses on mental health, has asked Malawi government to decriminalize attempted suicide ....
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Like father, like daughter: why Vanessa Kerry is demanding action on climate and health

The Observer 16 Nov 2023
A critical care doctor, she founded – and runs – Seed Global Health, an organisation that trains medics working in poor countries ... For Kerry, who was recently named by the World Health Organization as its first director-general special envoy for climate change and health, the two issues are urgently interdependent.
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If Congress walks away from PEPFAR, it will undo decades of global HIV progress

The Hill 16 Nov 2023
In fact, we have been able to hand over some of our HIV programs in Kenya, Uganda, and Malawi, since PEPFAR has paved the way for governments and other health actors to carry out these lifesaving activities ... But there would be no excuse for letting this completely treatable disease become a global health emergency again.
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At risk: 10 ways the changing climate is creating a health emergency

The Observer 16 Nov 2023
Here are 10 ways the climate crisis is affecting global health. ... World Health Organization data published in September showed there were twice as many cholera cases in 2022 than in 2021 ... Malawi recorded nearly 59,000 cases of cholera and 1,768 deaths by the time its health ministry said it had the outbreak under control in August.
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Indo-German development plans to cover Benin, Ethiopia

Live Mint 14 Nov 2023
Peru, Malawi, Ghana and Cameroon. Officials indicated that New Delhi and Berlin are looking to expand this into Benin and Ethiopia in climate change related programmes.Mint had earlier reported that German officials are interested in expanding cooperation into the health sector.
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