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Congo and South Sudan agreed to share Ebola surveillance and communication data every week at the Aba border, WHO says. Aba has no cases yet, but only five of 11 planned entry points work, and it lacks protective gear, isolation space and an ambulance.
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WHO says it is scaling up emergency health operations in Ethiopia's Afar, Amhara and Tigray regions because of ongoing hostilities, and has delivered more than 71 metric tonnes of medical supplies, after the U.N. released $8.5 million for the north.
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President Bola Tinubu urged the West African College of Physicians on Oct. 22 to find practical solutions to medical brain drain, as the college made him a fellow at the State House in Abuja and Nigeria responds to its first Ebola case.
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WHO says reports last week put Ebola deaths at 15 a day in Mangina, North Kivu, and that about six in 10 deaths in Congo occur outside health centres. Kenya says all 135 contacts of its fatal case are accounted for.
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South Africa says 111 people at Rhodes University and 23 inmates at St Albans Correctional Centre fell ill with gastrointestinal symptoms, and early tests put the contamination inside the two sites' own water systems, not the municipal supply.
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Nigeria's Presidential Task Force on Ebola met in emergency session at the State House in Abuja on Oct. 21, a day after the country's first case. Health Minister Pate said contacts are being traced and isolated and the incident management system is active.
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Uganda says it has no confirmed active Ebola case and will strengthen screening at points of entry. Its health ministry says Nigeria's first patient transited Uganda without symptoms in early October and that where she was exposed is still under investigation.
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South Africa will reprioritise R556.7 million over three years to sustain HIV and AIDS services after the United States withdrew PEPFAR funding, the government said with Wednesday's Medium Term Budget Policy Statement.
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The Gambia has adopted a National Dementia Plan for 2027 to 2031, the first in the WHO African Region, as the number of Gambians living with dementia is projected to rise from about 4,000 to nearly 13,000 by 2050.
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South Africa's Eastern Cape has started about 3,500 people on lenacapavir, the HIV prevention injection given twice a year, and Health MEC Ntandokazi Capa is urging young people and sex workers to come forward.
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Nigeria confirmed its first Ebola case on Oct. 20: a woman in Abuja who had traveled to Uganda, fell ill Oct. 7 and was treated at a private hospital. She is isolated and stable, and 44 contacts are being monitored, Health Minister Muhammad Ali Pate said.
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South Africa's government says 408 people, most under four, fell ill in Bronkhorstspruit between Oct. 7 and 18 after the City of Tshwane's plant sent out unchlorinated water from Sept. 24 to Oct. 14. No deaths and no cholera were reported.
