Rafindadi said that despite ongoing efforts to tackle avoidable blindness, the country has not achieved the cataract surgical rates required to reduce the burden significantly.
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Africa’s struggle to make essential medicines affordable is not simply a problem of inadequate pharmaceutical production, as a new report
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At the event, Ethiopia’s State Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hadera Abera, said the inauguration reflected the continent’s determination to build a healthier and more resilient Africa.
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In its latest Lassa Fever Situation Report for Epidemiological Week 17, covering 20 to 26 April 2026, the agency said the case fatality rate (CFR) stood at 25.2 per cent, compared to 19.1 per cent recorded within the same period in 2025
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