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A €100 million investment aims to reshape Africa-Europe health cooperation—prioritizing regional vaccine production, stronger systems, & long-term resilience after COVID-19 exposed global inequities.

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🌍 Indigenous Brazilian children from the Yanomami community are the first in the world to receive paediatric tafenoquine — a single-dose treatment for relapsing P. vivax malaria.

For remote communities facing a devastating malaria resurgence, replacing a seven-day regimen with

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Farm workers are on the frontlines of climate change. Extreme heat now threatens livelihoods, health and labour productivity for more than a billion people, according to a new @FAO-@WMO report.

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ACTs have saved millions of lives. But partial resistance to artemisinin has been reported in Rwanda, Uganda, Eritrea, Tanzania with more countries suspected.

Experts say the time to act is now!

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