Lebamba
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Lebamba is a small town in south-western Gabon
. It is the capital of Louetsi-Wano Department in Ngounié
Province.
The Bongolo American Mission Hospital, which is considered to be one of the best in Gabon, is located in Lebamba. The Hospital is staffed by American missionary doctors and is one of only three hospitals in Gabon that offer HIV
testing. (the others are the Libreville and Port Gentil hospitals.)
Gabon
Gabon , officially the Gabonese Republic is a state in west central Africa sharing borders with Equatorial Guinea to the northwest, Cameroon to the north, and with the Republic of the Congo curving around the east and south. The Gulf of Guinea, an arm of the Atlantic Ocean is to the west...
. It is the capital of Louetsi-Wano Department in Ngounié
Ngounié
Ngounié is one of Gabon's nine provinces. It covers an area of 37,750 km². The provincial capital is Mouila.To the southeast, Ngounié borders the Niari Region of the Republic of the Congo...
Province.
The Bongolo American Mission Hospital, which is considered to be one of the best in Gabon, is located in Lebamba. The Hospital is staffed by American missionary doctors and is one of only three hospitals in Gabon that offer HIV
HIV
Human immunodeficiency virus is a lentivirus that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome , a condition in humans in which progressive failure of the immune system allows life-threatening opportunistic infections and cancers to thrive...
testing. (the others are the Libreville and Port Gentil hospitals.)