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Coronavirus weekly: expert analysis from The Conversation global network
Fusion Medical Animation/UnsplashThe global crisis triggered by the spread of the new coronavirus disease, COVID-19, continues to take fresh and dramatic turns, causing havoc in dozens of countries...
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Society's most vulnerable will be hit as COVID-19 cases rise in poorer economies
A vendor distributes newspapers wearing a face mask as a preventive measure against the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus in Nairobi, Kenya.Simon Maina/AFP via Getty ImagesAs travellers cancel...
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Finally, snakebite is getting more attention as a tropical health issue
People most at risk from snakebite are often from the most impoverished populations.Andre Coetzer/ShutterstockAmid global health crises such as coronavirus, snakebite envenoming is easily overlooked....
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Blood groups -- and their antibodies -- are being explored in immunity to...
ShutterstockCOVID-19, which first emerged in Wuhan, China in December 2019, is relentlessly sweeping across the world. The scale of the epidemic has caused chaos and led to the World Health...
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Newborns in developing countries need better protection from common bacteria
ShutterstockAlmost half of all deaths in children under five-years-of-age happen in the first month of life. One of the leading causes of these deaths is from a bacterial organism called Streptococcus...
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Why the elimination of malaria needs much greater involvement of women
Women are often primary caregivers in their communities.ShutterstockI was born and bred in the western part of Kenya, an area endemic of malaria. I have been sick from malaria not once, not twice, but...
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COVID-19: a guide to good practice on keeping people well informed
Commuters outside Nairobi Railway Station wash their hands before entering the train station as a preventive measure against COVID-19. Photo by Dennis Sigwe/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty ImagesThe...
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Why a one-size-fits-all approach to COVID-19 could have lethal consequences
A deserted street in Cairo after the government ordered the closure of shops, restaurants and cafes.Photo by Ziad Ahmed/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesSuppose you had the choice between two health policies,...
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Millions of Kenyans go hungry every day. Why, and what can be done
Kenya now suffers from serious levels of hungerStosun/ShutterstockThe recently released 2019 Global Hunger Index shows that millions of Kenyans are going hungry and that the country suffers from...
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Pandemics act on social fault lines: lessons for COVID-19 from HIV and AIDS
HIV activists in Khayelitsha, Cape Town, South Africa in 2004. Solidarity and organisation were key in fighting HIV stigma.Gideon Mendel/Corbis via Getty ImagesRalph Kretzen, who died on 26 August...
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TB: Scientists know a great deal, but there's still more to learn
Fluorescence microscopy of mycobacteria. Michael A. Reiche, Timothy J. de Wet, Ryan Dinkele and Digby F. WarnerSouth Africa has one of the highest rates of tuberculosis (TB) infection globally. Almost...
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'Track and trace' is key to containing COVID-19: how privacy can be protected
shutterstockIn efforts to contain the spread of COVID-19, governments are imposing stringent restrictions on movement, including social distancing and a national lockdown. They are also finding...
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A brief history of the coronavirus family -- including one pandemic we might...
Stray cows rest on a New Delhi street during a one-day civil curfew to combat coronavirus. Cattle may have been central to a coronavirus outbreak in 1890.Yawar Nazir/Getty ImagesScientists have known...
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TB, HIV and COVID-19: urgent questions as three epidemics collide
Doctors Without Borders supporters march in protest to the American Consulate in Johannesburg in 2012.Photo by Foto24/Gallo Images/Getty ImagesTuberculosis (TB) and HIV pose a significant burden on...
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COVID-19 testing: the answers to six simple questions
John Paraskevas/Newsday RM vis Getty ImagesAs COVID-19 spreads throughout the world, the need for more extensive laboratory testing increases. Testing and diagnosing people who have the disease is...
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Nigeria relies heavily on drug imports. Why this is worrying in the time of...
Drugs security is a serious issue in Nigeria as Covid-19 rages Pius Utomi Ekpe/AFP via Getty Images The spread of COVID-19 has been slow in Nigeria compared to other countries on the continent....
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Pasha 60: The challenges facing African countries testing for COVID-19
GettyImagesTesting for COVID-19 is crucial in understanding how many people have the disease and how fast and far it’s spreading. But testing comes with challenges, including test kit production and...
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Scale of COVID-19 calls for new approaches -- like crowdsourcing -- to research
Traditional approaches to biomedical research and development are costly and time consuming.GettyImagesCOVID-19 is not the world’s first pandemic. Nor is it the only type of big problem that the world...
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COVID-19: how personal versus public freedoms are playing out in South Africa
South African Law Enforcement officers check movement papers during the country's 21-day national total lockdown.Nic Bothma/EPAAs the COVID-19 pandemic took hold in South Africa two weeks ago, the...
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Gita Ramjee: a woman who pursued science for the greater good
Matthew Kay/AFP via Getty Images)Gita Ramjee dedicated her professional life to HIV prevention research for women and adolescents from the 1980s when the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) was first...
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