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How the private sector can boost COVID vaccination in Nigeria
The Lagos State government recently approved some private health facilities to administer COVID-19 vaccines in the stateOlukayode Jaiyeola/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesNigeria’s Lagos State government...
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African countries perform badly when it comes to drug policies: a new index...
Kenyan police officers display bags of heroin seized in 2011. Tony Karumba/AFP via Getty ImagesAwukye received a 10-year prison sentence in Ghana for cannabis possession. The experience, he said,...
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Diabetes can be controlled. But there's no medicine for some people who need it.
Diabetes can be controlled using medicines, diet and lifestyle modification. ShutterstockThe burden of diabetes is increasing globally. There are about half a billion people in the world living with...
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Supplying COVID-19 pills at lower cost is only part of what poorer countries...
There's an urgent need for therapeutics to complement vaccines.Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesNovember 2021 marks another grim flashpoint in a stream of them: the global COVID-19 death toll...
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Treatment of COVID with antibiotics could add to the problem of drug resistance
When COVID-19 emerged, misuse of antibiotics increased.ShutterstockCOVID-19 is a major global public health challenge. The pandemic’s impacts cut across all sectors. One of the most worrying is its...
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Skin lighteners: fashion and family still driving uptake in South Africa
A shop selling skin lightening creams in Nairobi.Simon Maina/AFP via Getty ImagesSkin lightening products have been popular for more than 40 years among sub-Saharan African populations. But over the...
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The hunt for coronavirus variants: how the new one was found and what we know...
Scientists find variants by sequencing samples from people that have tested positive for the virus. Lightspring/ShutterstockSince early in the COVID pandemic, the Network for Genomics Surveillance in...
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Omicron is the new COVID kid on the block: five steps to avoid, ten to take...
What not to do: ban travel. Scenes at South Africa's OR Tambo International airport after the first flight bans were announced.Phill Magakoe / AFP via Getty ImagesSouth Africa reacted with outrage to...
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How inequality drives HIV in adolescent girls and young women
To fight economic inequality, female dependency on relationships and gender-based violence, female education is critical.GULSHAN KHAN/AFP via Getty ImagesDespite the advances that have been made...
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South Africa isn't doing enough to provide HIV prevention treatment for...
ShutterstockA global target for the elimination of mother to child transmission of HIV globally was set in 2015. The ambitious target of the Joint United Nations Programme (UNAIDS) was to reduce new...
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The people most at risk of HIV in Kenya aren't using preventive drugs: we...
GettyImages Brent Stirton/Getty Images for the GBCThere has been a gradual decline of new HIV cases overall in Kenya – from a high of 230,000 new infections in 1992 to 33,000 in 2020. But there are...
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Omicron: Senior Nigerian scientist considers fallout, and why travel bans are...
Nigeria's President Buhari at the 2021 Intra-African Trade Fair in Durban, South Africa. Darren Stewart/Gallo Images via Getty ImagesNigeria is about to receive President Cyril Ramaphosa, who will be...
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Top Kenyan scientist shares the joys and challenges of creating life-saving...
Rift Valley Fever virus, 3D illustration. Kateryna Kon/ShutterstockProfessor George Warimwe should be a household name in Kenya. He’s a leading scientist who has created a life-saving vaccine against...
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In Burkina Faso healthcare is free only for some: why this is a problem
Healthcare in the country is free for children under five. Nicolas Maeterlinck/BELGA MAG/AFP via Getty ImagesMaternal and child mortality remains a major public health problem in low- and middle-income...
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Congo Basin's vital clues to HIV's behaviour: how we're trying to crack its...
HIV prevalence in the Congo Basin is relatively low. Yannick Tylle/ GettyImagesThere have been tremendous gains towards reaching the United Nations 90-90-90 targets to end HIV as a public health...
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Donors have shifted their priorities when it comes to HIV: a look at the...
Cuts in donor funding stretch limited resources. ISAAC KASAMANI/AFP via Getty ImagesSome have dubbed it the collision of two pandemics. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit two years ago, it was said that...
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Kenya has imposed a holiday season COVID-19 vaccine mandate: why it's premature
Kenya national rugby union team supporters, like these celebrating victory over Germany, face a compulsory vaccine mandate. Photo by Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP via Getty ImagesKenya is to impose restrictions...
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A new report shows worrying growth of the diabetes pandemic
Many people with diabetes are undiagnosed. ShutterstockDiabetes is rising at an alarming rate. One in 10 adults worldwide – 537 million people – now live with the disease. This is higher than the 463...
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Vaccine mandates in South Africa: where are they most needed?
Various employers and organisations have implemented vaccine mandates.Yeshiel/Xinhua via Getty ImagesThe debate about mandatory vaccines has reached fever pitch as efforts to contain COVID-19...
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South Africa must address hesitancy to increase COVID vaccination: here's how
Vaccines are our best chance of overcoming this pandemic.Xabiso Mkhabela/Anadolu Agency via Getty ImagesIn February 2021, as the first COVID-19 vaccinations were rolled out to healthcare workers in...
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