BRAZZAVILLE, Mar 22 (IPS) – Dr Matshidiso Moeti is the World Health Organization Regional Director for Africa.In the outskirts of Malawi’s capital, Lilongwe, just beyond where paved roads transition to dirt, an undiagnosed polio infection paralysed a three-year-old girl. From one day to the next, the child’s life was changed forever.
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