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Current Feed ContentBURKINA FASO: Some $450 million in medicines for “neglected” diseasesPharmaceutical companies have pledged some US$450 million worth of medicines to Burkina Faso to fight “neglected” diseases that blind or otherwise debilitate millions of people in the country, according to the health minister. Nearly 4,000 health workers are being deployed throughout the country to prepare for drug distribution and other education and prevention activities, health officials say. The nationwide programme takes on five of what the World Health Organization (WHO) calls “neglected...BURKINA FASO: Girl's death prompts search for new strategies to fight FGMThe death of a 14-year-old girl from female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) has sparked shock and anger in Burkina Faso, which has been seen as far ahead of other African countries in the fight against the practice. “Sorrowful and shocking" is how Aïna Ouédraogo, permanent secretary of the National Committee for the Fight against Excision (CNLPE), described the girl's death. The teenager was one of 15 girls – aged 4 to 14 – who were circumcised the week of 17 September in the rural town of... |
