Cases of COVID have plummeted in Africa and deaths are declining for the first time since the Omicron-dominated fourth wave of the virus reached its peak, the UN said Thursday.
Jan 20, 2022
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A COVID-19 antibody survey conducted in Sierra Leone is the first nationally representative investigation of COVID-19 seroprevalence conducted on the African continent and presents evidence of large-scale underreporting of ...
Dec 21, 2021
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The African continent might not reach the target of vaccinating 70% of its 1.3 billion population against COVID-19 until the second half of 2024, a target many of the world's richer countries have already met, the World Health ...
Dec 14, 2021
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Africa is set to see diabetes cases more than double to 55 million by 2045, the biggest increase across the globe, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned Thursday.
Nov 11, 2021
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Prostate cancer, the second-most common cancer in men behind skin cancer with nearly a quarter of a million cases in the U.S. diagnosed annually, plays favorites.
Oct 26, 2021
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During the "first wave" of COVID-19 in the United States, Rajan Chakrabarty, the Harold D. Jolley Career Development Associate Professor at Washington University in St. Louis, learned that African Americans made up 47% of ...
Oct 20, 2021
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Counties that banned in-person religious gatherings and those with a greater number of hospitals per capita were associated with a decreased case-fatality rate of COVID-19 during the pandemic's first wave, according to a ...
Oct 18, 2021
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African Americans represent 12% of the U.S. population, but carried 41% of all menthol-smoking-related premature deaths in the United States between 1980 and 2018, according to a new study researchers believe is the first ...
Oct 14, 2021
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Just two percent of the population, or less, have been fully vaccinated against coronavirus in half of the countries in Africa, the World Health Organization said on Thursday,
Sep 30, 2021
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In public health, an important goal of vaccination and immunization is to reach population or herd immunity. This is why the term comes up often in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic. And it helps to be clear about what it ...
Aug 12, 2021
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