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News Cameroon » Health: Cameroon Sees 100% Increase in Mental Health Care Seekers

News channel or source: https://www.voanews.com/a/cameroon-sees-100-increase-in-mental-health-care-seekers/6783395.html
Published on: Sunday 09 October 2022

Officials in Cameroon say the number of mental health patients in the country has more than doubled in the past year, as the country deals with a separatist crisis in its western regions and Boko ...

News Cameroon » Health: Life-saving malaria vaccine rolls out in Cameroon

News channel or source: https://www.npr.org/2024/01/25/1226791256/vaccine-reduces-all-kinds-of-deaths-among-children-not-just-malaria-deaths
Published on: Wednesday 24 January 2024

The Central African nation of Cameroon kicked off the world's first routine childhood vaccine program for malaria this week. At a hospital in Cameroon, health care workers this week started giving ...

News Cameroon » Health: Child health improves in Cameroon one year after malaria vaccine introduction

News channel or source: https://www.afro.who.int/countries/cameroon/news/child-health-improves-cameroon-one-year-after-malaria-vaccine-introduction
Published on: Tuesday 21 January 2025

Yaounde – Ndzie Daniela and Ngah Daniel, twins, were the first children to receive the malaria vaccine when it was introduced in Cameroon on 22 January 2024. They have now received three doses of the ...

News Cameroon » Health: Cameroon Clears Abandoned Mental Health Patients from Streets

News channel or source: https://www.voanews.com/a/africa_cameroon-clears-abandoned-mental-health-patients-streets/6206276.html
Published on: Wednesday 26 May 2021

Authorities in Cameroon are clearing the streets in the capital, Yaounde, of more than 300 psychiatric patients whom officials say have been abandoned by family members. The central African state says ...

News Cameroon » Health: Nursing Professor Leads Effort to Improve Health of Moms and Babies in Cameroon

News channel or source: https://www.uml.edu/news/stories/2022/cameroon-infant-health.aspx
Published on: Thursday 10 November 2022

A new study led by Assoc. Prof. Comfort Enah is evaluating whether a system that was designed to improve maternal and newborn health in rural America decades ago can bring similar benefits to Cameroon ...