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Addis Ababa, Monday 19 April, 2021 - As Tigray residents recount the horrors they have faced, worries rise for people’s longer-term safety as they are left without food, inputs for planting, and high food prices and access to cash and markets. A recent CARE assessment found that the food situation in a number of areas of eastern Tigray is truly alarming, with little or no agricultural inputs available for people to recover over the coming months.
Read MoreIn May 1981, a small newspaper out of New York City reported on “rumors of an exotic new disease among homosexuals,” – the first story in the United States on what was, at least in sub-Saharan Africa, already becoming the AIDS epidemic. Since then, over 30 million people have died from AIDS-related illnesses across the globe. After 40 years of scientific and medical effort, our response to AIDS has come a long way. We have effective treatments that reduce transmission of HIV, and people living with an undetectable viral load don’t transmit it sexually.
Read MoreThe population in war-torn Yemen has paid a heavy price during the COVID-19 pandemic, partly due to its battered health system. “I don’t think there is a home without COVID-19 — [there are] lots of deaths,” said Rajaa Ahmad Ali Massaad, the nation’s first female anesthetist. At Aden Hospital, where she works, about 260 nurses and doctors have contracted the disease and at least three of them died, she said, adding that, “Yemen is definitely not ready for another COVID wave.”
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