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It's Time to Address Diseases That Kill More People Than COVID-19

As COVID-19 surges globally and leaves fear and panic in its wake, global efforts are under way to find a cure. Yet the same level of response is lacking for several other infectious diseases that kill millions annually. Neglected tropical diseases are a broad group of communicable diseases which affect more than two billion people and cost developing economies billions of dollars every year, write Ifeanyi Nsofor and Adaeze Oreh for the Inter Press Service news agency.

Africa: Neglected Diseases Kill More People Than COVID-19 - It's Time to Address Them

IPS, 30 March 2020

As COVID-19 surges globally and leaves fear and panic in its wake, global efforts are underway to find a cure. Yet, the same level of response is lacking for several other… Read more »

Brian Sokol/UNDP South Sudan

A child receiving tuberculosis medicine in South Sudan under a programme supported by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and UNDP.

Tanzania: What You Should Know About TB in Relation to Covid-19

Daily News, 27 March 2020

AS the world comes together to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic, it is important to ensure that essential services and operations for dealing with long-standing health problems… Read more »

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Nigeria Struggles With Lassa Fever in a Time of COVID-19

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has said that the death toll from the Lassa fever outbreak has risen to at least 185. Nigeria is currently dealing with what is ... Read more »
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What the Fight Against TB Can Teach Us About COVID-19

As governments around the world struggle to contain spiraling infections and an ever-increasing death toll from COVID-19, it's worth using World TB Day to reflect on what lessons ... Read more »
- Africa: What Fight Against Tuberculosis Can Teach Us About Fighting COVID-19
- Africa: New WHO Recommendations to Prevent Tuberculosis Aim to Save Millions of Lives

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