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Mali was one of the West African countries affected by the biggest Ebola outbreak ever recorded from 2014 to 2016. Shutterstock

Why Ebola vaccine on trial in the DRC is raising hopes

Shirin Ashraf & Arthur Wickenhagen 11 Feb 2019

Is medicine cure? Treatment? Healing? Understanding? Or a bit of all those things. Kenishiroti/Shutterstock

What is medicine? Why it's so important to answer this question

1 Feb 2019

Personalised medicine aims to tailor treatment according to each person’s genetic makeup. Shutterstock

Why African countries need to give genomic research a major boost

Lamech Mwapagha 30 Jan 2019

Photo: Quartz

Healthworkers vaccinated against Ebola in South Sudan

29 Jan 2019

Immunisation coverage stagnating in Africa

Immunisation coverage stagnating in Africa

25 Jan 2019

10 biggest threats to global health

10 biggest threats to global health

15 Jan 2019

Child ready to receive measles vaccine, Bissau, Guinea-Bissau. Christine Stabell Benn, Author provided

Vaccines have health effects beyond protecting against target diseases

Christine Stabell Benn 15 Jan 2019

A portable DNA sequencer in action. UGA CAES/Extension/Flickr

DNA sequencing can help fight epidemics - but there are privacy risks

Liam Shaw & Nicola C Sugden 14 Jan 2019

Measles cases spike globally due to gaps in vaccination coverage

Measles cases spike globally due to gaps in vaccination coverage

24 Dec 2018

While women in sub-Saharan Africa live longer than men, many of these extra years are lived in poor health. Shutterstock

People in Africa live longer. But their health is poor in those extra years

Charles Shey Wiysonge 20 Dec 2018

#BestofBiz 2018: Healthcare

#BestofBiz 2018: Healthcare

18 Dec 2018

A Congolese child saluting a MONUSCO peacekeeper. Abel Kavanagh/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA

Worsening Ebola crisis leaves UN Security Council with few options

Mark Eccleston-Turner 13 Dec 2018

Professor Kelly Chibale. Photo: Je'nine May

R&D is the pipeline for science jobs in Africa

5 Dec 2018

Minister of Health of Burkina Faso, Professor Nicolas Meda and Minister of Health of Rwanda, Dr Diane Gashumba

Addressing neglected tropical diseases

4 Dec 2018