Thought a state to raise decades off and. Hello im christine want to welcome to news africa its good to have your Company Africa is battling a deadly flood of medicine its so rampant that some experts have called it a Public Health emergency. Just about hoff a fake medical products reported globally between 20132017 were sold in africa. Now the problem is particularly acute in west africa away 7 countries from the region are currently. Representatives from. Senegal uganda ghana and the gambia are gathered in total ill be putting some questions to the World Health Organization in a moment but 1st we go to kenya where the lives of 2 families weve met have been devastated by fake medicine its been a year since below 18 month old son passed away memories of a baby boy are still vivid so are the nightmares of losing him when he got sick son to a local chemist for help he was given an injection his skin color changed soon after in a Public Hospital he died in his mothers arms. One of the doc
Good morning. Thank you for joining us on cspan. I am really pleased to be here today. To introduce the admiral who is the assistant secretary for health. He is our 16th assistant secretary of health and the department of health and human services. It is his twoyear anniversary in the role. He serves as the secretary Principal Public Health and science advisor and is responsible for coordinating hhss efforts across the administration to fight americas opioid crisis. He also oversees the office of the Surgeon General in the u. S. Public Health Service commissioned corps. His office leads many Critical National initiatives, including a historic new plan to fight the epidemic in america, the National Vaccine plan, and eight cross agency plan for Sickle Cell Disease. Dr. Giroir brings the hands on perspective to his work. Lead america to healthier lives. I want to thank Africa Worldwide for partnering on this. With that, i am pleased to introduce now, admiral giroir. Mr. Giroir thank you v
News with scott pelley. Pelley good captioning sponsored by cbs there is some hope tonight that the latest war between israel and the palestinians in gaza can be brought to an end. Egypt today is proposing a 12 hour ceasefire as a first step, followed by talks between the two sides in cairo. The palestinians continued to fire unguided rockets into israel today. And the israelis kept up their aerial assault on gaza. In the past week approximately 180 palestinians have been kille, most of them civilians. No israelies have died. Their Missile Defense system is intercepting many of the palestinian rockets. Holly williams is in gaza city. The Israeli Military says its been targeting terrorists and their rocket launchers. But when we visited alshifa hospital today, we found wounded civilians, one of them still in diapers. Twoyearold hamdan and fouryearold hamada are brothers. They were injured early this morning when an air strike hit their neighbors house. Dow want a ceasefire . We want a c
Two sides in cairo. The palestinians continued to fire unguided rockets into israel today. And the israelis kept up their aerial assault on gaza. In the past week approximately 180 palestinians have been killed, most of them civilians. No israelis have died. Their Missile Defense system is intercepting many of the palestinian rockets. Holly williams is in gaza city. Reporter the Israeli Military says its been targeting terrorists and their rocket launchers. But when we visited alshifa hospital today, we found wounded civilians, one of them still in diapers. Twoyearold hamdan and four yearold hamada are brothers. They were injured early this morning when an air strike hit their neighbors house. Do you want a ceasefire . translated we want a ceasefire, their mother saddiqa told us, i want israelis and us to both live in peace, but they have to leave us alone. Reporter rockets fired by Palestinian Militants have caused damage and injuries, but no deaths. Thanks mainly to israels iron dome
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