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A child receives a vaccine against Ebola from a nurse in Goma on August 7, 2019. AUGUSTIN WAMENYA/AFP via Getty Images

Covid-19

The coping mechanisms the DRC is putting in place as it faces Ebola, measles and Covid-19

Yap Boum 23 Jun 2020

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom at an Ebola treatment centre in Itipo. Getty images/ Junior D. Kannah

Infectious Diseases

The DRC is on the road to being Ebola free: how it got here

5 Mar 2020

There is growing awareness of the negative impact of ‘parachute research’. Shutterstock

Medical Research

Lack of equity and diversity still plague global health research

Madhukar Pai 22 Nov 2019

A health worker prepares to administer Ebola vaccination in the north-western Democratic Republic of the Congo.
EPA-EFE/STR

Infectious Diseases

The Uganda vaccine trial: how African researchers are tackling Ebola

Yap Boum 8 Aug 2019

Health officer on the front-line in the DRC. Flickr

Infectious Diseases

Why declaring Ebola a public health emergency isn't a silver bullet

Yap Boum 23 Jul 2019

Health workers in Liberia at the height of the 2014-2016 Ebola outbreak. Ahmed Jallanzo/EPA

Medical Research

Ebola in the DRC: the race is on between research and the virus

Yap Boum, Jean-Jacques Muyembe & Sabue Mulangu 8 Mar 2019

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Medtech

Cracking the cold chain challenge is key to making vaccines ubiquitous

16 Jul 2018