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The International Organization for Migration has appealed for $18.5 million in global aid to provide healthcare services to migrants, internally displaced persons, and host communities in East and Southern Africa at the risk of mpox.
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UN body appeals for $18.5m aid to stop mpox spread among migrants in Africa

The International Organization for Migration has appealed for $18.5 million in global aid to provide healthcare services to migrants, internally displaced persons, and.

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A new strain of monkeypox virus named as MPXV clade Ib, which originated in the Democratic Republic of the Congo recently, is behind the surge of cases reported and transmitted through sexual contact.
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New mpox virus strain, sexual contact, behind a surge in cases: WHO 

A new strain of monkeypox virus named as MPXV clade Ib, which originated in the Democratic Republic of the Congo recently, is behind.

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Argentina’s Sinergium Biotech will share its technology and expertise to manufacture bird flu vaccine with partners in low and middle-income countries in case of a pandemic, bolstering preparedness efforts, according to the WHO.
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Sinergium to share H5N1 vaccine technology with low-income nations

Argentina’s Sinergium Biotech will share its technology and expertise to manufacture bird flu vaccine with partners in low and middle-income countries in case.

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HIV vaccine trials conducted in Eastern and Southern Africa threw up surprising results when more infections were reported in the two vaccine groups than in the placebo or dummy group.
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PrEPVacc HIV trials’ results ‘surprising’ as dummy group clocks less infections

HIV vaccine trials conducted in Eastern and Southern Africa threw up surprising results when more infections were reported in the two vaccine groups.

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The first dosing in a late-stage trial to evaluate an investigational drug for tuberculosis (TB) has started in South Africa, which has one of the highest burdens in the world.
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First late-stage trial vaccine doses begin in South Africa for tuberculosis

 HQ Team March 20, 2024: The first dosing in a late-stage trial to evaluate an investigational drug for tuberculosis (TB) has started in.

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At least 2.5 million people died because of drowning in the last decade and 90% of these deaths occurred in low and middle-income nations, according to the WHO.
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Drowning kills 236,000 people, mostly children, every year globally

HQ Team July 25, 2023: At least 2.5 million people died because of drowning in the last decade and 90% of these deaths.

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