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Medecins Sans Frontieres

Mobilise for more medical supplies

Mar 28, 2019 32,740

While Zimbabweans and the world have collected donations towards victims of Cyclone Idai in Manicaland and Masvingo with several truck-loads of food and clothes, what has been in short supply are medicines.
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Health

Unknown attackers threaten to worsen Ebola epidemic in Congo

Mar 5, 2019 6,947

Aid workers at the epicentre of the worst Ebola epidemic in the history of the Democratic Republic of Congo say they are facing a spike in attacks and threats, slowing their work and potentially triggering a surge of new cases.
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Health

Panic as cholera cases keep rising

Apr 17, 2018 10,634

There is growing panic among ordinary Zimbabweans that the rising cases of cholera may signal a potential repeat of the disastrous outbreak of 2008 which killed more than 4 000 people nationwide.
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Health

‘Mental illness drugs in shortage’

Feb 19, 2018 11,965

Poor access and a shortage of psychotropic drugs for mental patients could be the hindering factor towards treatment, a leading medical donor agency said.
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Diaspora

Zim nurse thrives in war zone

Apr 25, 2017 1,379

By Ruth Butaumocho Nurses shuffle into the emergency room – an army of white coats, with hopeful, patient smiles. They stand in around the bed as they look at the wounded civilian whose legs have to be amputated to save his life.…
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International

Boko Haram: Nigerian officials ‘sexually abusing’ victims

Oct 31, 2016 323

Women and girls in several camps in the Nigerian town of Maiduguri are being sexually abused by officials, a rights group says. Human Rights Watch (HRW) said it had spoken to 43 victims who had been raped or sexually exploited by…
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