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Africa Life ClinicEpisodes

  1. Can we eradicate leprosy?

    Senegal has embarked on a campaign to stop the disease in its tracks

  2. Eye transplants

    Would you give your eyes to help some else see?

  3. Defeating Leprosy

    A Senegalese initiative aims to eradicate the disease

  4. Working with disability

    Measures to empower people living with disability in Senegal

  5. How healthy are your shoes?

    Pain in your feet, knees or back? It could be your shoes

  6. Disability and empowerment

    Economic and health independence for people living with disability in Africa

  7. Combatting mental illness

    Mental health issues for breastfeeding mothers and why swimming can help

  8. Breastfeeding

    Experts say that breastfeeding babies is best, but it is not easy for all new mothers

  9. Water and wellbeing

    How swimming can help your mental health

  10. Covid-19 vaccination in Africa

    How the roll out of vaccines is progressing

  11. COVAX initiative update

    COVAX vaccines have started to arrive in parts of the continent

  12. Busting diabetes myths

    You don’t have to be old or rich to get diabetes

  13. Modern medicine versus the spirits

    Can traditional treatment, including calling on the ancestors help with serious ailments?

  14. Bone setting

    Can traditional medicine really fix broken limbs?

  15. Trachoma

    Treating one of the oldest recognised diseases on earth

  16. Africa’s blood shortage

    Why don’t people want to give blood?

  17. Barriers to blood donation

    Voluntary blood donors are in short supply in Africa

  18. Refusing donated blood

    Some people believe blood transfusions would change their personalities

  19. Sexual health, Covid-19 vaccines

    A neglected area of reproductive health and concerns over Covid-19 vaccination in Africa

  20. Africa’s Covid-19 vaccination question

    Is the Oxford vaccine still the best choice for the continent?

  21. What are Fibroids?

    Research shows Fibroids may affect up to 80% of black women

  22. Superbugs and superfoods

    How to combat antibiotic resistance and the truth about the health claims of coconut oil

  23. Antibiotic resistance

    A major threat to global health

  24. Coconut oil: separating fact and fiction

    Are the health claims about coconut oil believable?

  25. Vaccinating Africa against Covid-19

    Vaccinating Africa’s 1.2 billion people against Covid-19 and simple sanitation solutions

  26. Sanitation solutions

    Simple solutions to improve sanitation

  27. Vaccines for Africa

    The strategy for vaccinating Africa’s 1.2 billion people against Covid-19.