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    Source: Reuters.
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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

    Image: MedPage Today
    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

      21 Oct 2019

    World Health Organisation
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    Outbreaks of measles: compounding challenges in the DRC

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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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      27 Sep 2019

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      20 Sep 2019

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    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

    A health worker checks people’s temperatures in Goma, DRC. Patricia Martinez/EPA-EFE
    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

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    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

    A health worker prepares to administer Ebola vaccination in the north-western Democratic Republic of the Congo. EPA-EFE/STR
    The Uganda vaccine trial: how African researchers are tackling Ebola

      8 Aug 2019

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    ARV breakthrough: trial in South Africa confirms effectiveness of new drug

      6 Aug 2019

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    The WHO wants to rid the world of hepatitis by 2030: why it's a tough ask

      31 Jul 2019

    Dr Joseph Sempa of Sacema presenting at the 2019 Clinic on Meaningful Modelling of Epidemiological Data. AIMS-South Africa
    Africa needs specialist capacity to tackle the spread of infectious diseases

      29 Jul 2019

    Health officer on the front-line in the DRC. Flickr
    Why declaring Ebola a public health emergency isn't a silver bullet

      23 Jul 2019

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    16 Jul 2019

    A health worker administers the Ebola vaccine. EPA-EFE
    How the DRC's Ebola crisis has led to children dying from measles

      10 Jul 2019

    Countries can be better prepared and respond faster to disease outbreaks if public health data is shared more freely. Shutterstock
    Sharing data can help prevent public health emergencies in Africa

      8 Jul 2019

    A man pushes a wheelbarrow past a sign in Liberia during the West African Ebola outbreak. AHMED JALLANZO/EPA
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     9 Dec 2019

    A Nigerian child receives a dose of the polio vaccine. EPA
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     5 Dec 2019

    Image: MedPage Today
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    Outbreaks of measles: compounding challenges in the DRC

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     27 Sep 2019

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     20 Sep 2019

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     19 Sep 2019

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     18 Sep 2019

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    Ebola in the Congo: a forgotten conflict became a danger to world health

     11 Sep 2019

    A health worker checks people’s temperatures in Goma, DRC. Patricia Martinez/EPA-EFE
    How outbreaks like Ebola extract huge social and economic costs

     22 Aug 2019

    Trachoma can lead to blindness if left untreated. Alaine Kathryn Knipes/CDC
    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

    A health worker prepares to administer Ebola vaccination in the north-western Democratic Republic of the Congo. EPA-EFE/STR
    The Uganda vaccine trial: how African researchers are tackling Ebola

     8 Aug 2019

    The drug is set to improve HIV treatment. shutterstock
    ARV breakthrough: trial in South Africa confirms effectiveness of new drug

     6 Aug 2019

    Hepatitis is a major public health burden. Shutterstock
    The WHO wants to rid the world of hepatitis by 2030: why it's a tough ask

     31 Jul 2019

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    Photo: World Economic Forum
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     10 Jul 2019

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    Sharing data can help prevent public health emergencies in Africa

     8 Jul 2019

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