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#theguardian.com. × Rising anger over ‘lop-sided’ and ‘immoral’ US health funding pacts with African countries. Zimbabwe refuses to sign agreement and Kenya faces a court case over data sharing as new aid deals come under scrutiny

#theguardian.com. × US accused of ‘shameless exploitation’ over proposed Zambian health aid deal. Leaked draft of $1bn memorandum of understanding reveals mandatory targets, sharing of data, and reported access to mining concessions

#theguardian.com. × Botswana’s diamond-funded health system has failed: it needs to be reformed and rebuilt | Duma Gideon Boko. As Botswana’s president here is my plan to renew this country’s beleaguered health system – and my vision for a stronger Africa

#theguardian.com. × ‘At 2am, it feels like someone’s there’: why Nigerians are choosing chatbots to give them advice and therapy. With many unable to access or afford qualified therapists, AI is filling the mental healthcare vacuum, amid calls for tighter regulation

#theguardian.com. × Palestinians hope for more after limited Rafah crossing opening – video. About 20,000 Palestinian children and adults needing medical care hope to leave the devastated territory via the crossing, according to Gaza health officials

#theguardian.com. × ‘It’s the sovereignty of the country’: Guinea-Bissau says US vaccine study suspended. Despite US pushback, officials in west Africa say controversial hepatitis B study on pause amid ethics concerns

#theguardian.com. × New drug could be a breakthrough in treatment for killer TB, trial suggests. Sorfequiline shows stronger action than existing treatments against illness that killed 1.23 million last year

#theguardian.com. × ‘I had already given my baby a name’ – This is climate breakdown. It started with a migraine but ended in hospital. When Gowend had dengue the first time she had no idea she was pregnant. This is Gowend’s story

#theguardian.com. × Nestlé accused of ’risking health of babies for profit’ over added sugar in cereals sold in African countries. Campaigners say the company is contributing to rising rates of childhood obesity, while the firm says it is helping to combat malnutrition

#theguardian.com. × Ethiopia confirms outbreak of deadly Marburg virus. Africa CDC says at least nine cases have been detected of Ebola-like illness, which kills up to 80% of those infected

#theguardian.com. × UK warned that 15% cut to health fund will force ‘impossible choices’ on Africa. Advocates fear that other donors will follow Britain’s reduction to the Global Fund for Aids, TB and malaria

#theguardian.com. × ‘Utter hypocrisy’: tobacco firm lobbied against rules in Africa that are law in UK. British American Tobacco pushed Zambian ministers to drop or delay ad bans, health warnings and restrictions on flavoured products, letter shows

#theguardian.com. × French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal pardoned and to be released from prison. Eighty-one year-old, who has prostate cancer, can now be transferred from Algeria to Germany for medical treatment

#theguardian.com. × Waiting for the all-clear: how medics and villagers rallied when Ebola returned to DRC. If no new cases are reported in Bulape by early December, the country will have vanquished its 16th outbreak of the deadly virus since it was discovered there in 1976

#theguardian.com. × ‘The field of human ancestry is rife with racism’: pioneering project to build cancer database in Africa. Less than 2% of human genomes analysed so far have been those of Africans. Yemaachi Biotech’s Africa Cancer Atlas aims to fill the research gap

#theguardian.com. × ‘It’s back to drug rationing’: the end of HIV was in sight. Then came the cuts. The abrupt halt to US funding threatens to undo decades of advances, dramatically increasing infections and deaths, but some see an opportunity for Africa to lead the response

#theguardian.com. × Trump’s attacks on South Africa are a punishment for independence | Achille Mbembe and Ruth Wilson Gilmore. The US president’s cuts to health funding could lead to half a million deaths. They’re part of a strategy to condemn and isolate the country

#theguardian.com. × Nearly half of women in Africa will be obese or overweight by 2030 – study. Stigma, lack of treatment and disproportionate rise of the disease in women draws comparisons with HIV epidemic

#theguardian.com. × ‘I am willing to die’: hunger-striking mother of writer jailed in Egypt fights on in London hospital bed. After more than 150 days without food, Laila Soueif says she will continue until there is some positive news from Cairo

#theguardian.com. × Macron says French-Algerian author under ‘arbitrary detention’ in Algeria. French president voices concern for health of Boualem Sansal, who is on hunger strike over his imprisonment

#theguardian.com. × US shutdown of HIV/Aids funding ‘could lead to 500,000 deaths in South Africa’. Cuts could result in 500,000 deaths over the next 10 years in the country, research suggests

#theguardian.com. × Trump administration ends funding for UN program fighting HIV/Aids. Peter Marocco sends letter to UNAids terminating US involvement in serious blow to live-saving health service

#theguardian.com. × Africa’s medical system risks ‘collapse in next few years’, warns health leader. Focusing foreign aid on infectious diseases has allowed a rise in cancer and diabetes that African governments don’t have resources to fight, says Dr Githinji Gitahi

#theguardian.com. × Bird flu spreads to third property as farmers warn Australia’s egg shortage could be prolonged. Agriculture Victoria says H7N8 strain of avian influenza has been detected at a poultry farm at Euroa

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