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Why is Taiwan excluded from the WHO?

The coronavirus pandemic has shone a spotlight on Taiwan's exclusion from the World Health Organization and ignited a diplomatic row between China and some Western

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Uganda

The National Resistance Army (NRA), an anti-Obote group led by Yoweri Museveni, kept fighting after it had been excluded from the new regime. It seized Kampala on Jan. 29, 1986, and Museveni was declared president. Museveni has transformed the ruins of Idi Amin and Milton Obotes Uganda into an

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Africa: Continent Nears 100,000 Cases of COVID-19

South Africa has the most reported cases – 18,003, with deaths numbering

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Magic Johnson Secures $100M For Minority-Owned Companies As Government Fails Black And Latino Small Business Owners

One of the greatest passers in basketball history has thrown his latest assist to Black and brown small business owners who have seemingly been excluded from the government’s apparently selective efforts to keep employees on companies’ payrolls during the coronavirus

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Spike Lee releases short film as 'love letter' to New York during COVID-19

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Study: New injectable PrEP prevents HIV infections

In the study, a large and carefully-designed trial, injections every two months of cabotegravir stopped seven out 10 (69 per cent) more HIV infections than what has been up till now, state-of-the-art PrEP, namely a daily dose of the pill formerly known as

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Africa: Why More Must Be Done to Fight Bogus COVID-19 Cure Claims

Fake and bogus cure claims are a longstanding, but neglected public health

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Republicans are wimping out again on Donald Trump | The Atlanta Voice

Former Vice President Joe Biden has said, as recently as last month, that “we may have to do a virtual convention” due to concerns about the spread of

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Black Cardiologists Create COVID-19 FAQ | Dallas Weekly

Daphne Ferdinand, PhD, RN, Association of Black Cardiologists’ Community Programs Co-chair

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Africa: Hormuud CEO Calls for the Development of Clear Strategies for the Prevention and Containment of the Coronavirus in Africa

Ahmed Mohamud Yusuf, CEO of Hormuud, explains why, in Africa's battle against COVID-19, telecoms will prove to be an essential public service

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New Poll Reveals COVID-19’s Impacts on African American Communities

Washington, DC

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COVID-19 While Colored—Police Departments Have a New Profiling Tool Health Departments Provide Police with Addresses of Those Who Test Positive for COVID-19 | Black Voice News

– Unnamed Member, Tennessee Black Caucus

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J'can health expert praises WHO boss

THE opening speech by World Health Organization (WHO) Director General Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus at the 73rd World Health Assembly's virtual meeting on Monday has been lauded by one local public health expert as “the most brilliant watershed speech by any WHO director

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Op-Ed: A Hard ‘No’ to a Soft Opening | Afro

When the governor established a statewide stay-at-home order, this signaled to many that he was making an effort to put people and public health before

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Cameroon: COVID-19 Brings Out Government's Ugly Side

The message of national solidarity around the Covid-19 pandemic seems to have been lost in

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No health minister in Brazil as coronavirus infection spreads | Afro

The National Congress had not said anything about the Teich resignation, but the former minister of education during the Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva government and left-wing candidate for president of Brazil in 2018, Fernando Haddad, published a tweet saying: “Who will be the next Health

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Radio lessons light up Dadaab camp

The situation is even worse for refugee children, most of whom begin school late, and for whom education is also the only hope out of the

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Morehouse School of Medicine graduates Class of 2020 [Video]

As the 2020 graduates of Morehouse School of Medicine emerge from great tradition and enter the world of “new normal,” rife with change at unprecedented levels, their virtual graduation is the first of many firsts on the

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Coronavirus: Living the new normal

It is trying to find ways to allow people to get back out to do things they want to do, and business to do business,” said Dr. Marcus Plescia, chief medical officer at the Association of State Health

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L.A. County Launches ‘WiFi Finder’ to Reduce Digital Divide During COVID-19.

Los Angeles County Director of Public Health Barbara Ferrer shared the latest statistics of positive cases and death

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Baltimore Mayor To Trump: Don't Come Here During Lockdown

Baltimore Mayor Bernard “Jack” Young has urged President Donald Trump to cancel his scheduled Memorial Day visit to the city, which remains under a stay-at-home order amid the coronavirus

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Ramona Hood's Career: From Receptionist to FedEx Division CEO

When Ramona Hood achieved her milestone appointment as president and CEO of FedEx’s Custom Critical after a three-decade career with the company, the accomplished executive never fathomed she would lead the division in the throes of

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First Thing: US has three months to prepare for second Covid-19 wave, say scientists

A group of nine leading scientists who advised President Barack Obama has warned that the US has just three months to rebuild its stockpile of emergency medical equipment if it wants to be prepared for a second wave of coronavirus in the

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States accused of fudging or bungling COVID-19 testing data

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — As large parts of the U.S. ease their lockdowns against the coronavirus, public health officials in some states are being accused of bungling infection statistics or even deliberately using a little sleight of hand to make the some of the data look better than they

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Old, sick and incarcerated

Yet the federal correctional institution that housed Manafort had no coronavirus cases, and Manafort had served fewer than two years of his more than seven-year

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Face Coverings Now Mandatory for Angelenos Outside Homes

Mayor Eric Garcetti has issued an order requiring Angelenos to wear face coverings outside their

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READ: Former President Barack Obama's 'Graduate Together' speech | The Atlanta Voice

Some of you have had to overcome serious obstacles along the way, whether it was an illness, or a parent losing a job, or living in a neighborhood where people too often count you

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TSD Flash! - Back to Business Phase II; free tax help; a plan-ahead event; music vibe: Fugees' 'Ready or Not'

Memphis and Shelby County now has shifted into Phase II of the Back to Business plan, according to the Memphis/Shelby County COVID-19 Task

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Women at Risk as COVID-19 Strikes State Prisons in Riverside and San Bernardino Counties | Black Voice News

Across California there are at minimum 436 incarcerated persons—men and women—confined and struggling to stay alive with active cases of

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How death is linked to Covid-19

World Health Organization guidelines state in part that a Covid-19 patient who dies should be documented as a Covid

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