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apennyforurthots · 2 days

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Earthy 🍃🌷

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notjustpictures · 1 day

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telfar x trad clothing

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capeverdequeen · 2 months

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Star gazing in Boa Vista🇨🇻

#capeverdean #capeverde #boa vista #stars #sky #west africa #islands #travel #cape verde #african #africa #capvert #exotic

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plaaymate · 3 months

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#cameroon #west africa #french #black girl fashion #black girl fitspo #black girl moodboard #black girl tumblr #black girls of tumblr #blackgirlbeauty #blackgirlmagic #fashion aesthetic #soft black women #black beauty

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akuawaist · 1 year

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Cape Coast, Ghana -1992

via @Asafoflags

#ghana #cape coast #the motherland #west africa

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rjeldridge · 4 months

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Benin Dreams, 2023

#black art #rj eldridge #doc #benin #west africa #film #35mm #photography #reginald eldridge jr #reginald eldridge

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queerism1969 · 2 months

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389 · 1 year

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Ladoum sheep are huge and majestic—rams can weigh as much as three grown men. Startlingly, they are also without wool (which is not a problem in west Africa as it is too hot to wear jumpers). Some Ladoum look more like small horses than sheep. (source)

#ladoum #sheep #animals #nature #rams #west africa #africa #u

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slimmwrites · 10 months

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Was told the art I'll share on here will get more engagement than it ever did/will on Twitter, so I'm bringing my best work forward and sharing this piece I made of beautiful african women🫣🎨🤎

#twitter #twitter refugees #artwork #black artist #african art #digitalillustration #clip studio paint #support artists #adinkra symbols #ghanaian #black women #affirmative action #west africa #digital art #artists on tumblr

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thrdnarrative · 20 days

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Happy National Walking Day

Walking is a common form of transportation in many African nations, known as "the most common form of active travel.”

#Saint-Louis #Senegal #Africa #travel africa #west africa #documentary photography #Nicky Woo

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modestaesthetics · 4 months

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itswadestore · 3 months

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Mali, Jean-Baptiste Hyunh, 2003

#african photography #west africa #african portraits

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spaceshipsandpurpledrank · 9 months

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#talkin #tik tok #🇲🇱#mali #france #🇫🇷#colonization #west africa

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noosphe-re · 2 years

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Akan artist, Ghana, Western Africa, Finger or toe ring (mpɛtea) in the form of a starburst or cocoon. Gold, 5.5 x 6.3 cm; 2.3 cm (ring diameter). Bequest of John B. Elliott, Class of 1951 (1998-639)

https://artmuseum.princeton.edu/collections/objects/36886

#art #Ghana #West Africa #Africa #African art #Ghanaian art #Akan #jewellery

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sahljournal · 1 year

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A Senegalese girl. Unknown photographer.

#Senegal #girl #West Africa #Senegalese #Mauritania

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reasonsforhope · 1 year

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Cancer

“Starting at home, a study last year found that US cancer deaths had declined by 33% since 1991. This is equivalent to around 3.8 million people alive thanks to various efforts to combat the disease family.

The report was authored by the American Cancer Society, and published in the journal CA. American Cancer Society CEO Karen Knudsen called the drop “truly formidable,” while the report attributed the fall to the development of better treatments, the reduction in smoking habits, and earlier detection methods.

Just between 2019 and 2020, cancer death rates dropped 1.5%, while the deployment of the HPV vaccine was correlated with a 65% drop in cervical cancer rates from 2012 through 2019 among women in their 30s.

The report also found that not only are death rates falling, but 5-year survival rates for detected cancers have increased 68% among all diagnoses made between 2012 and 2018.

Guinea Worm Disease

Cancer research often involves cutting edge medical research, but across West Africa and India where cutting edge medicine is not widely available, human determination has succeeded in nearly eradicating Guinea Worm disease.

There are records of this truly unpleasant parasite affecting human health going back thousands of years, and in 1989, there were nearly 1 million cases globally.

But in 2022, this unwelcome waterborne guest created just 15 cases worldwide—a decline of 99.998%, and almost all 15 of those cases occurred in Chad.

This monumental turnaround was not the result of some experimental vaccine, but simple education, teaching people how to avoid drinking contaminated water, when and where this mostly seasonal parasite is likely to be found, and how to treat water to purify it of the Guinea worm.

Ebola

Other than Chad, Guinea Worm disease was also found in Uganda, which produced another medical milestone with the successful eradication of a recent Ebola outbreak.

The outbreak began in September, driven on by the incurable Sudan strain of the virus. It was the worst outbreak in 20 years, but even though there is no vaccine for the Sudan strain, the health authorities managed to contain it to just two administrative districts, and 142 confirmed cases.

“The magic bullet has been our communities who understood the importance of doing what was needed to end the outbreak, and took action,” said health minister Dr. Jane Ruth Aceng Ocero last Wednesday.

Vaccine trials involving Oxford University are currently underway for the Sudan strain, but until that time, health authorities received congratulations for their swift actions, and were thanked for the “lessons learned.””

-via Good News Network, 1/19/23

#united states #africa #chad #uganda #cancer #cw cancer #infectious diseases #parasite #ebola #sudan #west africa #india #healthcare #disease prevention #global health #good news #hope

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