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Largest African cervical and breast cancer screen and treatment programme launched in DRC
Largest African cervical and breast cancer screen and treatment programme launched in DRC 
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  29 Sep 2020

#Covid-19: Bizcommunity takes business virtual, as usual
#Covid-19: Bizcommunity takes business virtual, as usual

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Why a one-size-fits-all approach to Covid-19 could have lethal consequences

  23 Mar 2020

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  18 Mar 2020

Covid-19: Alibaba Foundation, Jack Ma Foundation to donate medical supplies to Africa
Covid-19: Alibaba Foundation, Jack Ma Foundation to donate medical supplies to Africa

18 Mar 2020

#Coronavirus: WHO switches to response mode in fighting Covid-19 in Africa
#Coronavirus: WHO switches to response mode in fighting Covid-19 in Africa

6 Mar 2020

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom at an Ebola treatment centre in Itipo. Getty images/ Junior D. Kannah
The DRC is on the road to being Ebola free: how it got here

5 Mar 2020

VIDEO: Some basic tips on staying safe from the coronavirus
VIDEO: Some basic tips on staying safe from the coronavirus

  2 Mar 2020

Ebola posters in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Olivia Acland / Barcroft Media via Getty Images /
Sierra Leone is using lessons from Ebola to prepare for coronavirus

28 Feb 2020

The links between people, animals and the environment call for a new approach to health. Shutterstock
Rwanda is training health workers for an interconnected world

  24 Feb 2020

Alarmed by a rapid spread of Lassa fever, the Nigerian Academy of Science is calling on government to declare a health emergency. Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP via Getty Images
Lassa fever: why there's a call to declare a health emergency in Nigeria

13 Feb 2020

Lessons from keeping the country free of Ebola have informed steps taken since the coronavirus scare first broke. Shutterstock
Nigeria and disease outbreaks. Better prepared, but still weak spots

  4 Feb 2020

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Fear spreads easily. That's what gives the Wuhan coronavirus economic impact

  30 Jan 2020

Kenyan health workers from port health services screen inbound travellers for temperatures at Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport. EPA/Daniel Irungu
Perspectives from Kenya and Ghana on coronavirus preparations

29 Jan 2020

Successful vaccination against measles in childhood should provide lifetime protection. Paul Hennessy/NurPhoto via Getty Images
Explainer: a history of the measles virus and why it's so tenacious

  28 Jan 2020

China in lockdown. EPA
Coronavirus does not look like a 'black swan' event - here are some reasons to be cautiously optimistic

  27 Jan 2020

Mosquito eggs can remain viable for years even in dry conditions and hatch after heavy persistent rains. Shutterstock
Heavy rains put Kenya at risk of mosquito-borne diseases

  23 Jan 2020

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VIDEO: Some basic tips on staying safe from the coronavirus

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Ebola posters in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Olivia Acland / Barcroft Media via Getty Images /
Sierra Leone is using lessons from Ebola to prepare for coronavirus

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The links between people, animals and the environment call for a new approach to health. Shutterstock
Rwanda is training health workers for an interconnected world

 24 Feb 2020

Alarmed by a rapid spread of Lassa fever, the Nigerian Academy of Science is calling on government to declare a health emergency. Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP via Getty Images
Lassa fever: why there's a call to declare a health emergency in Nigeria

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Lessons from keeping the country free of Ebola have informed steps taken since the coronavirus scare first broke. Shutterstock
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Fear spreads easily. That's what gives the Wuhan coronavirus economic impact

 30 Jan 2020

Kenyan health workers from port health services screen inbound travellers for temperatures at Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport. EPA/Daniel Irungu
Perspectives from Kenya and Ghana on coronavirus preparations

29 Jan 2020

Successful vaccination against measles in childhood should provide lifetime protection. Paul Hennessy/NurPhoto via Getty Images
Explainer: a history of the measles virus and why it's so tenacious

 28 Jan 2020

China in lockdown. EPA
Coronavirus does not look like a 'black swan' event - here are some reasons to be cautiously optimistic

 27 Jan 2020

Mosquito eggs can remain viable for years even in dry conditions and hatch after heavy persistent rains. Shutterstock
Heavy rains put Kenya at risk of mosquito-borne diseases

 23 Jan 2020

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 12 Dec 2019

HIV-infected and exposed children are vulnerable to vaccine-preventable diseases. Shutterstock
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A Nigerian child receives a dose of the polio vaccine. EPA
Complacency could delay the final push to eradicate polio

 5 Dec 2019

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SA's first Ebola case a training exercise

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Unicef carers at a creche for children whose parents are being treated for Ebola. Building health infrastructure is crucial to stopping the next outbreak. Epa/ Hugh Kinsella Cunningham
Investing in health systems is the only way to stop the next Ebola outbreak

 22 Oct 2019

Innovative efforts have been put in place to reach populations in partially and totally inaccessible parts of Borno state. Wikimedia Commons
Valuable lessons from Nigeria's marathon effort to eradicate polio

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Many families in the DRC can’t routinely access preventive services. Shutterstock
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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, World Health Organisation director-general, speaking on Ebola at the UN’s Geneva headquarters. EPA/Martial Trezzinni
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Ebola survivors can pass on the virus: we're trying to understand what role sex plays

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Training is necessary to equip health workers to deal with climate change risks. EPA
Ghana's health system isn't quite ready for climate change realities

 20 Sep 2019

Tedros Ghebreyesus, embarrassed to only talk about Ebola. Salvatore Di Nolfi/EPA
Over 3,000 killed by deadly virus in Democratic Republic of the Congo this year - and it's not Ebola

 19 Sep 2019

The oral polio vaccine is most commonly used in the developing world, despite one big problem. CDC/Alan Janssen, MSPH, CC BY
A newly designed vaccine may help stamp out remaining polio cases worldwide

 18 Sep 2019

Congolese National Army solider escorts health workers to the grave of an Ebola victim, in Beni, North Kivu province. EPA-EFE/HUGH KINSELLA CUNNINGHAM
Ebola in the Congo: a forgotten conflict became a danger to world health

 11 Sep 2019

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How outbreaks like Ebola extract huge social and economic costs

 22 Aug 2019

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Why it's proving hard to eliminate the eye disease trachoma by 2020

 19 Aug 2019

High-income country trainees and experts must learn to listen and be humble. Shutterstock
Global health still mimics colonial ways: here's how to break the pattern

 19 Aug 2019

DRC President Felix Tshisekedi during the inauguration ceremony. Hugh Kinsella Cunningham/EPA-EFE
Tshisekedi has taken over the DRC's Ebola response. How he can make a difference

 12 Aug 2019

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