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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

Aymar Nyenyezi Bisoka 11 Sep 2019

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Medical waste and duty of care

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The vaccine coverage needed for herd immunity varies from disease to disease. Ryoji Iwata/Unsplash

What is herd immunity and how many people need to be vaccinated to protect a community?

Hassan Vally 9 Sep 2019

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Sarah Pitt 2 Sep 2019

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Focused interventions needed to tackle HIV, TB burden

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

How outbreaks like Ebola extract huge social and economic costs

Abdhalah Ziraba 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

Musa Mutali 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

Madhukar Pai 19 Aug 2019

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

Yap Boum 8 Aug 2019

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

Michelle Moorhouse & Willem Daniel Francois Venter 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

Pauline Bakibinga 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

Juliet Pulliam & Jonathan Dushoff 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

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Ramon Zenel Shaban and Cristina Sotomayor-Castillo 19 Jul 2019

A health worker administers the Ebola vaccine. EPA-EFE

How the DRC's Ebola crisis has led to children dying from measles

Benjamin Kagina 10 Jul 2019

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Sharing data can help prevent public health emergencies in Africa

Moses John Bockarie 8 Jul 2019

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

Context matters in fighting Ebola: lessons from West Africa for the DRC

Shelley Lees & Luisa Enria 5 Jul 2019

Border screening at Kenya’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport. EPA-EFE/DANIEL IRUNGU

Kenya responded fast to Ebola scare, but cross-border risk remains high

Abdhalah Ziraba 21 Jun 2019

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Glenda Gray 14 Jun 2019

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Shobana Shankar 7 Jun 2019

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Health workers burying a child who died of Ebola in the DRC’s North Kivu province. Hugh Kinsella Cunningham/EPA

Radical ideas are needed to break the DRC's Ebola outbreak. Here are some

Mosoka Fallah 23 May 2019

A health worker looks on at an Ebola transit centre in Beni in North Kivu province, DRC. Hugh Kinsella Cunningham/EPA

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Steven Yeh, Jean-Claude Mwanza & Jessica Shantha 16 May 2019

A six-month-old who is infected with measles in Madagascar, March 2019. AP Photo/Laetitia Bezain

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