Health workers brave security challenges to vaccinate children in Cameroon’s East region

A child being vaccinated at the Gado Badzere refugee camp

Health workers brave security challenges to vaccinate children in Cameroon’s East region

Published on 05.12.2018

In a small Integrated Health Unit in Garoua-boulai, in Cameroon’s East region, a group of 20 young women draped in hijabs with babies in their arms, gather to listen to an educative session on the importance of vaccination. Their tutor, Mbeutcha Ngantcha Agnes, a Mid-wife, apt in speaking several local…

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Cameroon: Official statistics of HIV/AIDS prevalence rate among adults
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Cameroon: dialysis patients get relief from the Iya Foundation
Published on 29.11.2018
Dialysis patients at the Buea Regional Hospital Hemodialysis Center have received 1 million Frs Cfa worth of Repoitin 4000 IU from the Iya Foundation. The…
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Cameroon’s Stepanie Tum raises awareness on menstrual hygiene
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Cameroonian Actress Stephanie Tum, has taken menstrual hygiene initiative among young women to whole a new level. Through a campaign dubbed "GirlsAndHygiene”, the Actress is…
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Word Toilet Day: Lack of public toilets seen as crucial sanitation problem
Published on 20.11.2018
Cameroon has joined the rest of the globe to commemorate world toilet day, with many stating that the lack of public toilets is a crucial…

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