Showing posts with label Africa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Africa. Show all posts
Friday, December 6, 2024

Blood supply in West Africa

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 Here are some thoughts on blood shortages in West Africa by Jappah and Tao. (Jappah has just returned from Sierra Leone...) To meet demand,...
Thursday, October 3, 2024

A bride- price auction: “the most expensive bride in South Sudan”

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  The Guardian has the story of a bride-price auction for a child bride in South Sudan: A teenage bride wed for a record price: the ‘marriag...
Tuesday, August 27, 2024

Why Mpox Vaccines Aren’t Flowing to Africans in Desperate Need.

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  The NYT has the story: read it and weep... Why Mpox Vaccines Aren’t Flowing to Africans in Desperate Need. Drugmakers have supplies ready...
Tuesday, September 5, 2023

Repugnance watch: same sex weddings in Nigeria are illegal even for guests

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  The NYT has the story: Nigeria Arrests Dozens Over Same-Sex Wedding . A 2014 law makes such unions illegal in the country. Anyone found gu...
Sunday, August 20, 2023

Kidney disease in war-torn Sudan

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 The Lancet brings us this news from Sudan. Kidney failure in Sudan: thousands of lives at risk by Hatim A Hassan, Mohamed Hany Hafez, Vale...
Saturday, July 1, 2023

Africa continues to suffer severe shortages of blood and plasma

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  Blood and plasma are in short supply in Africa, partly due to the insistence, by the WHO and others, that  blood and plasma be supplied do...
Saturday, May 7, 2022

Drought, hunger, and early marriage in Ethiopia

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 Sometimes the problem is hunger, and early marriage is seen as the solution. The Guardian has the story Ethiopian drought leading to ‘drama...
Thursday, July 18, 2019

Laws about gay sex in Africa

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While many countries have legalized same sex marriages, including South Africa, in the rest of Africa the question is whether engaging in s...