Horn of Africa's health inequities worsening amid conflict: campaigners


  • World
  • Wednesday, 27 Apr 2022

NAIROBI, April 26 (Xinhua) -- Civil strife across the Horn of African region is undermining access to timely and quality healthcare services with women, children and adolescents bearing the brunt, global health advocates said Tuesday.

The campaigners said in a statement issued in Nairobi, the Kenyan capital, that ramping up investments in maternal, infant and adolescent health in conflict-stricken Horn of African states was imperative to avert a full-blown humanitarian crisis.

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