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ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA – NOVEMBER 19: Children over 12 years old receive Pfizer vaccine against Covid-19 pandemic at Entoto health center in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on November 19, 2021. (Photo by Minasse Wondimu Hailu/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

Sub-Saharan Africa children show higher Covid-19 death rate than elsewhere

Infants younger than one year in Africa have nearly five times the risk of death than those aged 15 to 19 years after contracting the virus

  • Eunice Masson
3 min read
AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

Bhopal: Hundreds of new victims are born each year

Hundreds of children are still being born with birth defects as a result of the world’s worst industrial disaster 23 years ago in the central Indian town of Bhopal, say…

  • Staff Reporter
4 min read
AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

A story of hope from one who has survived sexual abuse

A man in a clerical habit abused me in the church hall of the Johannesburg parish of the Immaculate Conception in Sturdee Avenue, Rosebank. It happened after a children’s…

  • Staff Reporter
7 min read