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Addressing maternal mental healthcare in Africa

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Johnson & Johnson to stop sale of talcum baby powder globally

Johnson & Johnson to stop sale of talcum baby powder globally

15 Aug 2022

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Aspen Covid vaccine lines risk going idle as J&J orders dwindle

Promit Mukherjee and Wendell Roelf 11 Aug 2022

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Medshield encourages well-being in the workplace

Medshield encourages well-being in the workplace

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Foreign healthcare workers benefit from updated Critical Skills List

Nivaani Moodley and Bianca Rutherfoord-Jones 10 Aug 2022

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Council for Medical Schemes recommends capping 2023 medical aid increases

Paresh Prema 10 Aug 2022

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Dr. Nivisha Parag 8 Aug 2022

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UCT opens cervical cancer screening site

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Consortium to buy Mediclinic for $4.49bn

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Sierra Leone doctors strike over pay, fuel allowances

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Source: Reuters. A nurse administers the malaria vaccine to an infant at the Lumumba sub-county hospital in Kisumu, Kenya.

Vaccine group invites African states to apply for malaria shot support

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