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Africa Life Clinic

Africa Life Clinic, health issues affecting people’s everyday lives across the continent.

World Service,22 episodes

Episodes

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Can we eradicate leprosy?
Senegal has embarked on a campaign to stop the disease in its tracks
03 Apr 2021,26 mins
Eye transplants
Would you give your eyes to help some else see?
01 Apr 2021,9 mins
Defeating Leprosy
A Senegalese initiative aims to eradicate the disease
30 Mar 2021,9 mins
Working with disability
Measures to empower people living with disability in Senegal
27 Mar 2021,26 mins
How healthy are your shoes?
Pain in your feet, knees or back? It could be your shoes
25 Mar 2021,9 mins
Disability and empowerment
Economic and health independence for people living with disability in Africa
23 Mar 2021,9 mins
Combatting mental illness
Mental health issues for breastfeeding mothers and why swimming can help
20 Mar 2021,26 mins
Breastfeeding
Experts say that breastfeeding babies is best, but it is not easy for all new mothers
18 Mar 2021,9 mins
Water and wellbeing
How swimming can help your mental health
16 Mar 2021,9 mins
Covid-19 vaccination in Africa
How the roll out of vaccines is progressing
13 Mar 2021,26 mins
COVAX initiative update
COVAX vaccines have started to arrive in parts of the continent
11 Mar 2021,9 mins
Busting diabetes myths
You don’t have to be old or rich to get diabetes
09 Mar 2021,9 mins
Modern medicine versus the spirits
Can traditional treatment, including calling on the ancestors help with serious ailments?
06 Mar 2021,26 mins
Bone setting
Can traditional medicine really fix broken limbs?
04 Mar 2021,9 mins
Trachoma
Treating one of the oldest recognised diseases on earth
02 Mar 2021,9 mins
Africa’s blood shortage
Why don’t people want to give blood?
27 Feb 2021,26 mins
Barriers to blood donation
Voluntary blood donors are in short supply in Africa
25 Feb 2021,9 mins
Refusing donated blood
Some people believe blood transfusions would change their personalities
23 Feb 2021,9 mins
Sexual health, Covid-19 vaccines
A neglected area of reproductive health and concerns over Covid-19 vaccination in Africa
20 Feb 2021,26 mins
Africa’s Covid-19 vaccination question
Is the Oxford vaccine still the best choice for the continent?
18 Feb 2021,9 mins
What are Fibroids?
Research shows Fibroids may affect up to 80% of black women
16 Feb 2021,9 mins
Superbugs and superfoods
How to combat antibiotic resistance and the truth about the health claims of coconut oil
13 Feb 2021,26 mins