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Medicines for Africa
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A social anterprise that provides a service to optimise cost and improve medicines supply chain capacity
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Health care should be a top priority
As Africans it is our responsibility to make sure we have a sustainable, accessible and affordable healthcare system. #medicinesforafrica #AU #worldhealthsummit pic.twitter.com/lDEcFEJan4
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allAfrica.com
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Liars - a Peculiar Headache for Foreign Poll Observers: allafrica.com/stories/201804… #Zimbabwe pic.twitter.com/KeCIa8PGrP
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Medicines for Africa
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1. Pneumonia
It is one of the most widespread diseases all over the globe. Through untrustworthy right of entry to healthcare services, it is very hard for infected people to obtain treatment. About 4.2 million lives are claimed yearly because of pneumonia.
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2. River blindness
Also called onchocerciasis.
About 100% of the 18-million river blindness sufferers have been reported in Africa. They suffer from skin infections as well as visual injury often causing complete blindness.
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4. Dysentery
causes stomach-ache, dyspepsia as well as shivering of the limb
3. African Trypanosomiasis
Caused by the tsetse fly
The World Health Organization stated that over 450,000 cases take place yearly
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6. Cholera
The danger of cholera is growing by congestion and unhygienic circumstances.
5. Yellow Fever
Yellow fever is caused by the Aedes Aegypti mosquito which grows in the jungle
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8. Dengue
Symptoms- high fevers, beating headaches, muscle pain, as well as possible circulatory failure
7. Tuberculosis
a new Tuberculosis infection takes place every second in Africa because of the undernourishment, immunization shortage, and extenuating occurrence of HIV/AIDS
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9. HIV and AIDS 33 million people suffered from it in the world- 65% of them in sub-Saharan Africa. Whereas cure options are growing, the soaring price of medicine still one of the main obstacles to curing the epidemic. Inadequate sexual health education is one of the problems
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Top 10 most prevalent diseases in Africa
10. Malaria - affects over 500 million a year, killing about three million people each year- 90% being children
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Medicines for Africa
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David Mabey and colleagues book “Principles of Medicine in Africa” is an interesting must read for African practitioners and Africans interested in Healthcare
#abettertomorrow #healthcare #health #africa
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Africans have a right to know that most non- communicable diseases are preventable
Did you know 80% of all blindness is preventable ?🤔
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Medicines for Africa
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Do you think it’s possible to solve medicine related issues in Africa without mass budgets and donations? #letsdiscuss #mfa #WHO #medicine #africa
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Sustainable•Affordable•Accesible
Medicines for Africa #MFA
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FT Health
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Investment news at #malaria summit so far amounts to £2.7bn from mix of governments, donors and business including £1.45bn from malaria- stricken countries to the Global Fund. #ReadyToBeatMalaria pic.twitter.com/GvGppUUnh6
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Medicines for Africa
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Retweeted Nana Akufo-Addo (@NAkufoAddo):
We want to build a Ghana Beyond Aid. I believe very strongly that Ghana is on the cusp of a new, bold beginning, which will repudiate the recent culture of failure. #CHOGM18 #GhanaBeyondAid #JHNews presidency.gov.gh/index.php/brie…
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Nana Akufo-Addo
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We want to build a Ghana Beyond Aid. I believe very strongly that Ghana is on the cusp of a new, bold beginning, which will repudiate the recent culture of failure. #CHOGM18 #GhanaBeyondAid #JHNews presidency.gov.gh/index.php/brie…
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Medicines for Africa
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@LeaveNoOneBebind lnkd.in/gXGcRtx
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China’s “new” silk road bmj.com/content/360/bm…
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Lassa outbreak in Nigeria: 43 dead, 450 ill @CNNI cnn.it/2sBZiR8
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10 threats to global health in 2018 – World Health Organization – Medium fb.me/2Iapljq1t
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