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KABUL, June 1 (IPS) - While Afghanistan faces a serious shortage of female doctors, the country's Islamist regime has placed restrictions on female students from graduating, further exacerbating the situation. Female medical graduates are barred from ...

Four nurses who fell ill with Ebola in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have been discharged from hospital after recovering from the often-fatal illness that sparked an international health alert.