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At Merck Foundation, we mark ‘World Diabetes Day’ every day by providing One-year diploma and two-year master’s degree in Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Cardiovascular Preventive Medicines to doctors as part of “Merck Foundation Diabetes Blue Points Program” in partnership with African First Ladies and Ministries of Health and Medical societies. Around 600 doctors from Africa Asia and Latin America have been enrolled in these […]

AKON is here. The Senegalese descent international superstar had visited the Merck Foundation office to discuss with me different programs and opportunities of collaboration to support girls’ education, women empowerment, and build healthcare capacity in our beloved continent, Africa. I personally love his songs. As an African woman, I’m proud of his global achievement and status

At Merck Foundation, we mark ‘World Heart Day’ in a very unique way. How? By providing scholarships of one-year Post-Graduate Diploma and two-year Master degree in Preventive Cardiovascular Medicine to 100 doctors from 25 countries in Africa and Asia.  No one on the earth can imagine how proud I am that we have so far provided specialty training to more

Many of our stakeholders, alumni, and media members asked me to start regular live streams on social media so they can ask me questions about our programs and their huge impacts and about myself as an African woman who became one of the Most Influential in the world. Therefore I decided to start this reporting tool to

I am delighted and proud to once again be selected as one of the 100 Most Influential African Women 2021 by Avance Media, under the category of CSO & Philanthropy, as part of the ‘Be a Girl’ Mentorship Program. Thank you for recognizing my efforts and Merck Foundation’s commitment towards building healthcare capacity, empowering girls in education so

I am very happy and proud to meet our winners of the Merck Foundation More Than a Mother Fashion Awards 2020 and welcome them to our newly established ‘Fashion with Purpose’ community. I am impressed with their designs that deliver strong and influential messages to empower infertile women and say ‘No to Infertility Stigma’, via sensitizing our communities. The

I am so happy to share that we had a very important and successful Online Summit with The Gambia and Merck Foundation, co-chaired by The Gambia First Lady & Ambassador of Merck Foundation More Than a Mother, H.E. Mrs. FATOUMATTA BAH-BARROW and myself. We met all the 35 Merck Foundation Alumni from The Gambia, young Gambian doctors who

We announced two media recognition awards for the media fraternity from Mauritius, Madagascar, and Seychelles, Merck Foundation Media Recognition Awards  “More Than a Mother” 2021 and Merck Foundation “Mask Up With Care” Media Recognition Awards 2021; two awards for the fashion fraternity of these countries, Merck Foundation Fashion Awards “More Than a Mother” 2021 and Merck Foundation “Make Your

Merck Foundation, in partnership with Media Trust Board, Mauritius conducted the first Merck Foundation Health Media Training for all media representatives from Mauritius, Madagascar and Seychelles focusing on the international standards and media ethics for reporting sensitive social and health issues with an aim to be the voice of the voiceless in their respective communities. I am very happy to initiate this

I am very proud that in partnership with the Ministry of Health and Wellness of Mauritius, we have provided till today 71 scholarships of one-year diploma and two-years master’s degree in many critical and underserved specialties for young Mauritian doctors with the aim to transform the landscape of patient care in the country. 32 Medical graduates have been