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Former MP Thandiwe Mfulo shares her journey with disability, personal achievements, aspirations and challenges in this bi-weekly feature, Thrive.

Former Member of Parliament and Disability Rights Activist, Thandiwe Mfulo was diagnosed with polio as a baby. As a result, ...

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation pledge $1.2 billion to eradicate polio

by Cwenga Maqhubela

16 October 2022, 9:14 PM

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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation said on Sunday that it will commit $1.2 billion to support efforts to end all ...

Former MP and trade unionist, Andrew Madella shares his journey with disability, personal achievements, aspirations and challenges in this bi-weekly feature, Thrive.

PODCAST: THRIVE Part 15: Former MP, Andrew Madella shares his story about disability

by Lebo Tshangela

4 October 2022, 4:45 PM

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Former Member of Parliament and trade unionist, Andrew Madella was diagnosed with polio as a child. As a result, he ...

A nurse holds a monkeypox vaccination at the Northwell Health Immediate Care Center at Fire Island-Cherry Grove, in New York, U.S., July 15, 2022.

Europe considers “dose-sparing” to increase monkeypox vaccine, WHO seeks trials

by Bongisipho Magcaba

10 August 2022, 9:35 AM

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Health officials in Europe are discussing whether to follow a move by the United States to stretch out scarce monkeypox ...

Poppy Mocumi, an African National Congress politician and member of the National Governing Council for the African Peer Review of South Africa, shares her journey with disability, personal achievements, aspirations and challenges in this bi-weekly feature, Thrive.

PODCAST: THRIVE Part 12: Politician Poppy Mocumi shares her story about disability

by Lebo Tshangela

9 August 2022, 2:57 PM

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An African National Congress politician and member of the National Governing Council for the African Peer Review of South Africa, ...

Mpumalanga single amputee Robert Masambo, shares his journey with disability, personal achievements, aspirations and challenges in this bi-weekly feature, Thrive.

PODCAST: THRIVE Part 10: Single amputee, Robert Masambo shares his story

by Lebo Tshangela

12 July 2022, 4:00 PM

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Robert Masambo, a public servant in Mpumalanga, was born with polio. As a result, his leg had to be amputated.

File image:A health worker administers polio vaccination.

Huge effort to curb polio underway after Malawi case

by Celestine Hendricks

23 March 2022, 9:50 PM

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In Malawi's Lilongwe district, Hilda Masamba is being vaccinated against polio. And here's why that's unusual. The three-year-old was Malawi's first ...

A boy gets his finger marked, after he is administered polio vaccine drops, during an anti-polio campaign, in a low-income neighbourhood as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, in Karachi, Pakistan July 20, 2020. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro

Nearly 3 million Malawian children to get polio shot after rare outbreak

by Bomkazi Malobola

4 March 2022, 7:20 AM

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Medics will vaccinate about 2.9 million young children against polio in Malawi, the United Nations said on Thursday, after a ...

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A health worker administers polio vaccination to a child in Raqqa, eastern Syria November 18, 2013.

Malawi detects polio, first wild case in Africa in over 5 years

by Wendy Mothata

19 February 2022, 4:03 AM

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Malawi has declared a polio outbreak after a case was detected in a young child in the capital Lilongwe, the ...

Western Cape Premier Alan Winde visited the Red Cross Children's Hospital in Cape Town as part of a TB awareness campaign.

TB in South African children underrated, early diagnosis very elusive: Doctors

by Bongisipho Magcaba

8 April 2021, 8:45 AM

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Western Cape Premier Alan Winde says efforts are under way to reduce TB infections in children in the province.

The current polio outbreak in Chad was first detected in February 2020, but immunisations were halted due to COVID-19.

Over 3.3 million children vaccinated in Chad in large-scale polio campaign

by Paballo Lephaka

3 December 2020, 12:47 PM

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More than 3.3 million children have been vaccinated against polio in Chad in a just-concluded immunisation drive – one of ...

Polio vaccinations had been scheduled for April and May, but were shelved in the face of rising COVID-19 cases that overstretched the health system, prompted movement restrictions as well as a ban on mass gatherings.

Immunisation campaigns suffered in Ghana as a result of the COVID-19: WHO

by Lebo Tshangela

10 November 2020, 8:43 AM

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The World Health Organisation (WHO) African Office says mass immunisation campaigns and many key health services suffered in Ghana as ...

Measles - one of the world most contagious known diseases - has staged a global resurgence in recent years, with ongoing outbreaks in all parts of the world.

UN says needs $655 million to avert new measles and polio epidemics

by Raymond Akamby

6 November 2020, 6:12 PM

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Severe disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic to immunisation campaigns against measles and polio are putting millions of vulnerable children ...