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IN SHORT:<\/strong> Claims that Namibian president Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah “rejected a proposal from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to conduct trials of a hormonal intrauterine device” are false. Health misinformation like this can be dangerous.<\/p>\n Disclaimer: Funding from the<\/em> Gates Foundation<\/em><\/a> made up 16% of Africa Check’s income<\/em> in 2024<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n “The veracity of this post is disdained on FB. Can you please check it?” asked a subscriber<\/a> to our WhatsApp line<\/a> about a post going viral<\/a> on social media<\/a> in South…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> IN SHORT: Claims that Namibian president Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah “rejected a proposal from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to conduct trials of a hormonal intrauterine device” are false. Health misinformation like this can be dangerous. Disclaimer: Funding from the Gates Foundation made up 16% of Africa Check’s income in 2024. “The veracity of this post […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":204750,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,8667,28426,5042,8576,6891,4706,724,9052,257,8404,10809,9170,254,6564],"class_list":["post-204749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-claim","tag-contraceptive","tag-country","tag-debunks","tag-fake","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-namibias","tag-news","tag-presidency","tag-proposal","tag-rejected","tag-south-africa-today","tag-trial"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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