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Cellphone, COVID-19, and Climate Change in Africa

In Climate, Features 20 by Mary Kurek

By:  Osita Aniemeka, PhD, Ambassador, Telemedicine Today, NIGERIA Before the dawn of COVID-19, the effects of climate change were already being felt by people across Africa. Evidence shows that change in temperature has affected the health, livelihoods, food productivity, water availability, and overall security of the African people. According to the Climate Change Vulnerability Index for 2015, seven of the …

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Sonia Sachs is Creating an Intervention for Africa’s Community Health Workers

In Africa, Africa Innovators and Influencers, Game Changers 13, Health, Introducer Game Changers and World NGOs' Best Impact 13 by Mary Kurek

Sonia Sachs has been frustrated over several years of working in pediatrics and endocrinology as a public health specialist in Africa.  But, she has been frustrated right into a solution. Sonia Ehrlich Sachs, MD, MPH is a pediatrician, an endocrinologist and public health specialist. She received a BA from Harvard University, an MD from the University of Maryland Medical School, …