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Air travel spreads infections globally, but health advice from inflight magazines can limit that

Air travel spreads infections globally, but health advice from inflight magazines can limit that

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

Countries can be better prepared and respond faster to disease outbreaks if public health data is shared more freely. Shutterstock

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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The three big studies pushing at the frontiers of HIV prevention

Glenda Gray 14 Jun 2019

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Hospital-acquired infections in SA hospitals are on the rise, especially in children

11 Jun 2019

Two women sell roadside refreshments in rural Kano in 2011. Shobana Shankar, CC BY-SA

What the US could learn about vaccination from Nigeria

Shobana Shankar 7 Jun 2019

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Decolonising healthcare

6 Jun 2019

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Breastfeeding could provide life-long immunity to infection, study

4 Jun 2019

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

Ebola survivors can lose their eyesight. What we're doing to prevent it

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

Road to measles elimination is predictable, but can be rocky

Matthew Ferrari & Amy Winter 13 May 2019

Measles virus. Design_Cells/Shutterstock

Measles: should vaccinations be compulsory?

Tom Solomon 3 May 2019