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A multivalent conjugate vaccine targeting five bacterial strains could help eliminate recurring outbreaks that have killed hundreds of thousands across sub-Saharan Africa’s meningitis belt.
For many people living in remote areas, community health centers are their only accessible source of medical care due to the long distances to larger hospitals. The Cure Blindness Project is addressing this.
Cure Blindness Project has joined the international eye health community in marking World Sight Day on October 9. Celebrating its 30th anniversary, the organization is expanding programs across Asia and Africa.
Vedastina Shumbusho received the Women in Global Health Africa Award for her 3 am digital report that helped contain a deadly Marburg outbreak in rural Tanzania.