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The continent is ripe for a public health disaster, and Western powers must step in to prevent another global catastrophe.
In Liberia, a country of 5 million people, there are just three ventilators — not one of them is in the public health system.
Africa is no stranger to recent outbreaks and therefore has a foundation to combat the coronavirus, but more must be done to ensure the informal economy is included in a comprehensive ...
In the aftermath of the West Africa Ebola crisis, the World Bank launched the Regional Disease Surveillance Systems Enhancement (REDISSE) Project to strengthen health systems and support ...
Brazzaville, 29 October 2020 – The COVID-19 pandemic has galvanized the development of more than 120 health technology innovations that have been piloted or adopted in Africa, a new World ...
Level39 member, Domineum, partners with African Achievers Awards and Africans Rising to host ‘Africa Unite against COVID-19’ conference in an …
Volunteerism capital in Africa holds the greatest promise and potential to buffer the continent from becoming the next epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic.
UNAids' Winnie Byanyima and the African CDC's John Nkengasong look at Africa's COVID-19 & what the continent is doing to make sure it's not left behind
More than one million people in Africa have been infected with the novel coronavirus but health experts say the numbers do not give a "full picture" of the outbreak on the continent.
Tajudeen Raji, Head of Public Health Institutes and Research at Africa CDC, speaks to Xinhua reporter in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on March 4, 2020. An official said that China CDC has ...
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Africa now has more than a half-million confirmed coronavirus cases. The continent-wide total is over 508,000, according to figures released Wednesday by the Africa...
There have been almost 1,000 deaths and more than 18,000 infections across Africa so far.
Global competition for kits and national constraints cause concern as lockdowns ease
Claims that Africa will be hit the worst by the pandemic ignore African epidemiological know-how and action.
People cannot stay away from work if they have no money
When a passenger arriving from Brussels at Cameroon's Yaounde Nsimalen airp...
As African governments continue with their efforts to track people exposed to coronavirus and combat its spread, several countries in the continent have adopted various techniques such as ...
Saving lives from COVID-19 in Africa will mean little if it also means allowing the number of lives lost to HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria to rise. Even as policymakers and civil-society ...
Africa’s health system has improved significantly, but the rise of COVID-19 will test the continent and its 1.2 billion people, says Edward Miguel