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Zambia to sign deal for $1.5B in US health funding

Development, Health

EU suspends beef exports from Namibia due to disease

Development, Health

Namibia halts meat exports after rare foot-and-mouth disease outbreak

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Lesotho lifts import ban on South African livestock imports

Development, Health

S. Africa sounds alarm as infant vaccinations plummet

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Zimbabwe sets up Ebola isolation facilities amid regional outbreak

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Lesotho establishes national tuberculosis

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Unitaid: South African lab to produce new HIV treatment in Africa

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Zambia says US health funding talks stalled over minerals, data terms

Development, Health

S. Africa gets more foot-and-mouth vaccine doses as it battles to contain outbreak

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Zimbabwe pulls out of US health aid talks

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South Africa releases first locally produced FMD vaccine in 20 years

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Botswana confirms foot-and-mouth outbreak

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Malawi declares polio outbreak as new cases detected

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Cholera kills 12 in Mozambique within 24 hours, as cases spike in Malawi

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Mozambique: 2,650 cholera cases, 32 deaths since September 2025

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US aid cuts trigger health crisis in Malawi

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Malawi approves usage of HIV injectable drug

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Groundbreaking HIV prevention shots to begin in Africa

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US to give Zambia $1.5B in new health sector grant for next five years

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Namibia confirms first mpox case, declares national outbreak

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Botswana declares public health emergency as medicines run out

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Botswana Health Ministry suspends non-urgent procedures amid drug shortages

Development, Health

Bird flu outbreak reported in Botswana near Namibia border

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Mozambique sees surge in mpox cases

Development, Health

Botswana delivers emergency FMD vaccines to South Africa

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Africa should step up own vaccines, says cholera-hit Angola

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Polihali Dam sparks rise in HIV, adolescence pregnancy

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Ministry: Angola sees over 20,000 cholera cases since January

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South Africa ensures AIDS drugs availability despite US funding cut

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Malawi confirms sixth mpox case

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WHO: Angola’s cholera outbreak has claimed more than 300 lives

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Namibia records first cholera case in nearly a decade

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Angola records 83 new cases of cholera in last 24 hours

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Botswana assures foreign inmates of continued free ARV treatment

Development, Health

NGOs: Lesotho HIV programs face collapse after US cuts

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Zambia’s president calls USAID funding freeze a wake-up call for Africa

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