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Egypt Wiped Out Hepatitis C. Now It Is Trying to Help the Rest of Africa.

By: Stephanie Nolen and Natalija Gormalova — 28 November 2023 at 05:00

Effective drugs that have made the disease curable have yet to reach most of the region.

Sulemana Musah, a schoolteacher in Accra, Ghana, started feeling sick in 2011, while he was a student, but he didn’t receive a hepatitis C diagnosis until 2017.

Unvaccinated and Vulnerable: Children Drive Surge in Deadly Outbreaks

By: Stephanie Nolen — 25 November 2023 at 22:11

About 60 million “zero-dose children” have not received any vaccines and have aged out of routine immunization programs. Protecting them will require a costly vaccination blitz.

Deborah Sebi, right, a nurse at a mobile clinic in Teshie, a fishing village in Ghana, prepared an immunization for Rebecca Bamembaye’s 3-month-old, Doris.