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Ghana battles deadly meningitis outbreak amid shrinking foreign aid and health system struggles

Health & Medicine

A meningitis outbreak is sweeping through Ghana’s Upper West region, exposing a struggling health care system. With understaffed hospitals, dwindling resources and no approved vaccine, authorities are at their wits’ end.

Young residents pose for a photograph on a street in the Clifton neighborhood of Staten Island in New York on October 25, 2014. The area is home to a community known as "Little Liberia" — it has the largest concentration of Liberians outside of Africa.

A new hotline fights Ebola-related stigma against African immigrants

Health
Liberian American Shoana Solomon started a campaign called "I am a Liberian, not a virus," to combat the stigma of Ebola.

The ‘I am Liberian, not a virus’ campaign confronts the stigma of Ebola

Health
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