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How The Plane Project is improving basic healthcare for thousands of Africans

How The Plane Project is improving basic healthcare for thousands of Africans

9 Nov 2020

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Africa's fragile health system hit hard by Covid-19

9 Nov 2020

850,000 animal viruses could be caught by humans, unless we protect nature - UN report

850,000 animal viruses could be caught by humans, unless we protect nature - UN report

Katie Woolaston and Judith Lorraine Fisher 30 Oct 2020

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Nigeria needs innovation and science investment to help control Covid-19

Christian Happi & Ifeyinwa Aniebo 28 Oct 2020

During the Covid-19 pandemic, WHO is supporting the Ghana Health Service in their efforts to continue providing essential medical services to the population at the Greater Accra Regional Hospital, Ghana. Photo: WHO / Blink Media - Nana Kofi Acquah

5 quick wins to re-invent Africa's health systems

Rachel Ndirangu & Rosemarie Muganda-Onyando 23 Oct 2020

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Training can improve patient and health worker safety in sub-Saharan Africa

Paul Kadetz, Abebe Bekele & Agnes Binagwaho 15 Oct 2020

Mathari Hospital is the only psychiatric hospital in Kenya. Simon Maina/AFP via Getty Images

Why Africa needs to invest in mental health

Benedict Weobong & Justice Nonvignon 13 Oct 2020

Getting real about virtual events

Getting real about virtual events

Bizcommunity.com 9 Oct 2020

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Zambian study points to why some mothers don't carry on taking HIV drugs

Jerry John Nutor 30 Sep 2020

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How changing vaccine schedules can save costs and lives: findings from South Africa

Jeffrey Dorfman 29 Sep 2020

Majority of tobacco giants failing to advance harm reduction

Majority of tobacco giants failing to advance harm reduction

28 Sep 2020

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Why can't Africa manufacture the medicines it needs?

Janet Byaruhanga 28 Sep 2020

Investment health-related research is not adequate. GettyImages

African health research needs support: here's one programme that's working

Jude Igumbor 1 Sep 2020

#WorldEntrepreneursDay: Teheca is connecting expectant mothers to nurses in Uganda

#WorldEntrepreneursDay: Teheca is connecting expectant mothers to nurses in Uganda

Evan-Lee Courie 21 Aug 2020

Congolese artist Chris Shongo paints on the outside wall of the Academie des Beaux-Arts in Kinshasa on June 18, 2020.

Covid-19 shows that the DRC must invest in a health research industry

Dacquin M. Kasumba 14 Aug 2020

Researchers are central to any country’s science preparedness, especially in the face of pandemics.
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Africa's research capacity is growing. That's good news for pandemic response efforts

Sam Kinyanjui & Sharon Fonn 24 Jul 2020

Nurses attend the 2015 International Nurses’ Day celebrations in Johannesburg, South Africa. Ihsaan Haffejee/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

Beyond Florence Nightingale: how African nurses have decolonised the profession

Timothy A Carey, Agnes Binagwaho & Judy Khanyola 10 Jul 2020

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Rwanda's Covid-19 pool testing: a savvy option where there's low viral prevalence

Leon Mutesa 3 Jul 2020

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Africa waited for solutions to past health crises: will it be different for Covid-19?

Hailay Gesesew 2 Jul 2020

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The coping mechanisms the DRC is putting in place as it faces Ebola, measles and Covid-19

Yap Boum 23 Jun 2020

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Breakthrough: microbe found to block the transmission of malaria

Jeremy Herren 9 Jun 2020

Healthcare workers testing people in Nairobi, Kenya during a mass testing exercise for Covid-19. Photo by SIMON MAINA/AFP via Getty Images

Sub-Saharan Africa needs to plug local knowledge gap to up its anti-Covid-19 game

Alex Ezeh & Sharon Fonn 28 May 2020

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IATA: Governments to reconsider air travel quarantine measures

14 May 2020

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How African genetic studies offer hope for preventing a common cause of blindness

Susan Williams 22 Apr 2020

Defy to begin building ventilators in SA this May

Defy to begin building ventilators in SA this May

14 Apr 2020

The Bizcommunity: Not taking lockdown lying down

The Bizcommunity: Not taking lockdown lying down

Bizcommunity.com 6 Apr 2020

Covid-19 likely to exact heavy toll in Africa

Covid-19 likely to exact heavy toll in Africa

3 Apr 2020

Shaping Africa's urban areas to withstand future pandemics

Shaping Africa's urban areas to withstand future pandemics

Astrid R.N. Haas 2 Apr 2020

Coronavirus: Recognising illegal wildlife trade as a public health issue

Coronavirus: Recognising illegal wildlife trade as a public health issue

Simon Evans 27 Mar 2020

[WATCH] Bill Gates on testing and self-isolation during the Covid-19 pandemic

[WATCH] Bill Gates on testing and self-isolation during the Covid-19 pandemic

26 Mar 2020

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