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Created: 06 May 2021 Winnie Byanyima, the UNAIDS Executive Director, recently visited the Hakahana Clinic in Katutura, Windhoek, Namibia, where she saw the Determined, Resilient, Empowered, AIDS-Free, Mentored and Safe (DREAMS) project in action, a project funded by the United States of America. The clinic is a government health facility and a DREAMS participating clinic that has provided health services to 10–24-year-old adolescent girls and young women since September 2020. �...

unaids.org UNAIDS DREAMS girls and community care workers at the Hakahana Clinic in Katutura, Windhoek, Namibia, 13 April 2021. Credit: UNAIDS Feature story 05 May 202105 May 202105 May 2021 Winnie Byanyima, the UNAIDS Executive Director, recently visited the Hakahana Clinic in Katutura, Winnie Byanyima, the UNAIDS Executive Director, recently visited the Hakahana Clinic in Katutura, Windhoek, Namibia, where she saw the Determined, Resilient, Empowered, AIDS-Free, Mentored and Safe (DREAMS) p...

By Johnbosco Agbakwuru— ABUJA PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has expressed grief over the death of the renowned public health expert, Professor Adetokunbo Lucas, saying that Nigeria and the world have lost an expert in public health. President Buhari, according to a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Chief Femi Adesina, stated this on receiving the news of the passing of Professor Lucas, at the age of 89. The President commiserated with the family, friends, medical communit...

TODAY President Muhammadu Buhari is mourning renowned public health expert, Professor Adetokunbo Lucas. “Nigeria, indeed the world has lost an expert in public health,” President Muhammadu Buhari said on receiving the news of the passing of Professor Adetokunbo Oluwole Lucas, OFR, at the age of 89. The President commiserates with the family, friends, medical community and academia over the passage of the global health leader for Africa and award winner for his outstanding support for rese...

Views: Visits 115 President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed sadness following the passing of Prof. Adetokunbo Oluwole Lucas, OFR, at the age of 89 saying Nigeria and indeed the world has lost an expert in public health The President, in a statement by his special assistant on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina commiserated with the family, friends, medical community and academia over the passage of the global health leader for Africa. Professor Lucas was an award winner for his outstandi...

People living with disabilities in rural areas are more isolated. (Doug Maloney/Unsplash) Despite constitutional protections and national initiatives like Disability Awareness Month, people with disabilities in rural areas say they are overlooked. They face ignorance and stigma in the workplace and in their communities. Disability Awareness Month in November went by without recognition in Embo, a rural town east of Durban. Similarly, International Day of Persons with Disabilities on 3 December...