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Professor Hadiza Shehu Galadanci, director of the African Center of Excellence for Population Health and Policy demonstrates the use of the E-MOTIVE care bundle to nurses Fatimah Sarikin and Nafisa Abbas at Bayero University. The E-MOTIVE care bundle is used to detect and prevent postpartum hemorrhaging.
Professor Hadiza Shehu Galadanci, director of the African Center of Excellence for Population Health and Policy demonstrates the use of the E-MOTIVE care bundle to nurses Fatimah Sarikin and Nafisa Abbas at Bayero University. The E-MOTIVE care bundle is used to detect and prevent postpartum hemorrhaging. ©Gates Archive/Nelson Owoicho

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Faith Zighe checks to see if the syringes have been assembled correctly. She is one of the many hearing impaired workers at the Revital Healthcare factory in Kikambala, Kenya, on July 9, 2024.Revital Healthcare became the first East and Central African company to manufacture medical devices such as auto-disabled syringes and reuse-preventing syringes and has grown to become one of the largest manufacturers of medical disposable products in Africa.
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How solar-powered fridges are transforming vaccine storage in remote areas

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Dr. Stellah Bosire poses for a photograph at her desk in a hospital in Nairobi, Kenya on April 6, 2024.
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A doctor at the intersection of women’s health and economic power

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