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Africa’s Healthcare Gets Boost as Merck Foundation-Trained Doctors Fill Specialist Gap

Michael Gwarisa

By Kuda Pembere Following training in critical specialties through scholarships awarded by the Merck Foundation, African doctors are now seeing around 1,000 patients each month, significantly reducing the disease burden in their communities. Previously, many of these patients had nowhere to go for specialized care. Speaking at the Merck Foundation First Lades Initiative in Dubai,

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Zim First Lady lauds Merck Foundation scholarships covering the underserved medical specialties gap

Michael Gwarisa

By Kuda Pembere recently in Mumbai, India Over 100 scholarships to study in the underserved medical specialties such as fertility, embryology, respiratory medicine, oncology amongst others have been availed to Zimbabwean doctors under the Merck Foundation scholarship program, Zimbabwe’s First Lady Amai Auxillia Mnangagwa said. She said this during a Merck Foundation Africa-Asia Luminary last

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Zimbabwe Health Journalists Trained On Sensible Infertility Reporting

Michael Gwarisa

ZIMBABWE’S First Lady, Dr Auxillia Mnangagwa in partnership with the Merck Foundation and the Zimbabwe Union of Journalists (ZUJ), hosted a half day training to sensitise Zimbabwean Journalists on issues around fertility and infertility. By Michael Gwarisa The development comes in the midst of a growing burden in fertility related complications in both women and

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