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The Future of Tobacco Control in Africa Must Include Harm Reduction

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By Joseph Magero As Africa marks World No Tobacco Day, governments across the continent must ask an important question: are current tobacco control policies truly tailored to African realities, or are they simply borrowed from elsewhere and imposed without regard for local feasibility? For too long, many African countries have adopted tobacco control approaches copied

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Woman being screened for Ebola during a public health preparedness exercise in Africa
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Zimbabwe Commences Ebola Screening, Requests Africa CDC Reagents Ahead Of Potential Spillover

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Michael Gwarisa Zimbabwe has begun screening travellers for Ebola at ports of entry and activated its Public Health Emergency Operations Centre at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals as the country intensifies preparedness measures against the deadly outbreak currently affecting the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Uganda. The government has also requested laboratory reagents from the

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