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Boys in Madagascar sit smiling at a school desk.

Malitsietsi Malepa is 24-years-old and lives in Berea region in Lesotho. She’s part of the Let Youth Lead initiative, which aims to ensure adolescents receive ‘friendly’ services at clinics.

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In Lesotho, youth get a say in improving healthcare

Innovative project lets youth rate healthcare services

Grace Mutungambera (18) and her 9-month-old baby outside their home in the tobacco-growing region of Hurungwe in Zimbabwe.

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Mentor mothers programme in Zimbabwe

Mentor programme sees young mothers open up about issues that concern them

A family poses for a photo in front of a tent

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Kisumu floods in Kenya

Meet Wycliffe and his family who are staying at an evacuation camp at Nyamasau Primary School

A man on a moped passes a latrine

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Flushing out disease with a new market latrine

On the outskirts of Juba, a new latrine is changing hygiene practices and setting an example for South Sudan

An adolescent boy holds up a climate action sign

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Nkosi climate change journey to COP25

In Zimbabwe, Nkosinathi has amplified the call for government to look at environmental issues and climate change in particular with a keen eye.

Gideon, the ‘Ebola Doctor’

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Meet Gideon, the ‘Ebola Doctor’ of Uganda

“Every time I pass by a place, people point at me and say, Ebola Doctor.”

Dr. Denis Nansera, a paediatrician, examines Kansiime Ruth, 25, and her daughters aged 1 and 4 years, at the Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital in Mbarara District, Western Region, Uganda

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Treating HIV-positive children with speed and skill

How innovations in rapid testing and child-friendly medicines are saving lives in Uganda

Mother and child

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“We could not rest until we found her family.”

After 15 years, Rwandan social workforce reunites Kariza with her mother.

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