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Source: Reuters. Uganda health minister Jane Ruth Aceng addresses the media after receiving a shipment of 1,200 doses for Ebola vaccine candidates set to be used in a clinical trial at the National Medical Stores in Entebbe, Uganda, 8 December, 2022.

Healthcare

Uganda declares itself Ebola-free after swiftly turning tide on outbreak

11 Jan 2023

Source: AfricaCDC.

Healthcare

US to apply Ebola screenings for recent Uganda visitors at 5 airports

David Shepardson 7 Oct 2022

Healthcare

Uganda declares Ebola outbreak after Sudan strain found

Elias Biryabarema 21 Sep 2022

An Ebola survivor who works as a nurse, waits to receive tubes for taking blood samples at the Ebola treatment centre in Katwa, near Butembo, in the DRC, 3 October 2019. Reuters/Zohra Bensemra

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DRC declares end to Ebola outbreak

Nellie Peyton 4 Jul 2022

Source: ©Solovyov Andriy

Energy & Mining

ArcelorMittal invests $800m in Liberia

13 Sep 2021

A health worker receives a vaccine against Ebola at a hospital after a case of Ebola was confirmed in Abidjan, Ivory Coast 16 August 2021. Reuters/Luc Gnago

Healthcare

Ivory Coast begins Ebola vaccinations after case confirmed in Abidjan

Loucoumane Coulibaly 17 Aug 2021

Source: ©Franco Volpato

Finance

Credit ratings are punishing poorer countries for investing more in healthcare during the pandemic

Ramya Vijaya 17 Aug 2021

Ebola survivors: their health struggles and how best to support them

Healthcare

Ebola survivors: their health struggles and how best to support them

Peter B James, Abdulai Jawo Ba, Amie Steel, Jon Adams & Jon Wardle 28 May 2021

Low trust in authorities affects vaccine uptake: evidence from 22 African countries

Healthcare

Low trust in authorities affects vaccine uptake: evidence from 22 African countries

Jean-Francois Maystadt, Kalle Hirvonen & Nik Stoop 21 May 2021

Ebola virus virion. CDC/Cynthia Goldsmith

Healthcare

Ebola might be a chronic infection - but here's why we shouldn't panic

Connor Bamford 1 Apr 2021

Workers at India’s biggest syringe manufacturer ramp up production in September 2020 in race to meet Covid-19 vaccine-driven demand. Photo by SAJJAD HUSSAIN/AFP via Getty Images

Healthcare

Why India is banking on health diplomacy to grow African footprint

Dan Banik & Renu Modik 26 Mar 2021

Medical staff check each others protective suits. Photo by SUMY SADURNI/AFP via Getty Images

Healthcare

Ebola strikes West Africa again: key questions and lessons from the past

Mosoka Fallah 19 Feb 2021

A response led by scientists and researchers must be central to any current and future threats. Donwilson Odhiambo/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

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Strong leadership fought Covid-19 in Africa: the next step is to harness research

Monique Wasunna 12 Nov 2020

Claudia Shilumani, CEO, Centre for Communication Impact

Healthcare

#2020AfricaBrandSummit: Winning hearts and minds in the midst of a pandemic

Nicci Botha 9 Oct 2020

A volunteer receives an injection from a medical worker during the country’s first human clinical trial for a potential vaccine against Covid-19 in Soweto, South Africa. Felix Dlangamandla/Beeld/Gallo Images via Getty Images

Healthcare

Covid-19 vaccine: the challenges of running a trial in the middle of a pandemic

Jeffrey Mphahlele 7 Jul 2020

Preventing Covid-19 from becoming a hunger crisis in Africa

Agriculture

Preventing Covid-19 from becoming a hunger crisis in Africa

Mimi Alemayehou 6 Jul 2020

A researcher holds a Covid-19 mRNA vaccine at the National Primate Research Center of Chulalongkorn University in Thailand. Chaiwat Subprasom/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

Healthcare

Africa waited for solutions to past health crises: will it be different for Covid-19?

Hailay Gesesew 2 Jul 2020

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

Healthcare

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

Yap Boum 23 Jun 2020

How wildlife conservation could survive the devastating effects of Covid-19

ESG & Sustainability

How wildlife conservation could survive the devastating effects of Covid-19

Dr Duncan MacFadyen 20 May 2020

A bottle of Covid Organics, a herbal tea that authorities in Madagascar gave to students. Photo by Rijasolo/AFP via Getty Images

Healthcare

Why more must be done to fight bogus Covid-19 cure claims

Chimaraoke Izugbara & Mary O Obiyan 19 May 2020

Children are a high-risk population prone to severe complications from malaria. Shutterstock

Healthcare

Why malaria treatment shouldn't take a back seat to Covid-19

Jaishree Raman 15 May 2020

A community health worker carries a box of protection masks in Dakar on April 16, 2020. JOHN WESSELS/AFP via Getty Images

Healthcare

Community health workers are crucial to pandemic response. How to support them

Anatole Manzi 29 Apr 2020

Trump has long been disdainful of multilateral organisations. Stefani Reynolds / POOL /EPA

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Explainer: what Donald Trump's funding cuts to WHO mean for the world

Adam Kamradt-Scott 16 Apr 2020

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Marketing & Media

Why Africa's journalists aren't doing a good job on Covid-19

George Ogola 26 Mar 2020

Healthcare

#Covid-19, HIV and TB

9 Mar 2020

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

Healthcare

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

5 Mar 2020

Ebola posters in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
Olivia Acland / Barcroft Media via Getty Images /

Healthcare

Sierra Leone is using lessons from Ebola to prepare for coronavirus

28 Feb 2020

Coronavirus outbreak mapper.

Healthcare

Coronavirus outbreak: a new mapping tool that lets you scroll through timeline

Edward Parker 12 Feb 2020

Kenyan health workers from port health services screen inbound travellers for temperatures at Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport. EPA/Daniel Irungu

Healthcare

Perspectives from Kenya and Ghana on coronavirus preparations

29 Jan 2020

Successful vaccination against measles in childhood should provide lifetime protection. Paul Hennessy/NurPhoto via Getty Images

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Explainer: a history of the measles virus and why it's so tenacious

Matthew Ferrari 28 Jan 2020

Healthcare

Africa's genetic material is still being misused

Keymanthri Moodley 9 Jan 2020

Hugh Kinsella Cunningham/ EPA-EFE

Healthcare

Is it Ebola, or just a drill? How to test a public health crisis response

Mosoka Fallah 12 Dec 2019

Image: Medicines for Malaria

Healthcare

Climate change could increase the threat of malaria in Central Africa

23 Oct 2019

Unicef carers at a creche for children whose parents are being treated for Ebola. Building health infrastructure is crucial to stopping the next outbreak. Epa/ Hugh Kinsella Cunningham

Healthcare

Investing in health systems is the only way to stop the next Ebola outbreak

Emma Glennon & Freya Jephcott 22 Oct 2019

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, World Health Organisation director-general, speaking on Ebola at the UN’s Geneva headquarters. EPA/Martial Trezzinni

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Why it's dangerous for Tanzania to withhold information about Ebola fears

Abdhalah Ziraba 7 Oct 2019

Hugh Kinsella Cunningham/EPA-EFE

Healthcare

Ebola one year on: the wins, the setbacks, and the way forward

Shirin Ashraf & Emma Thomson 30 Sep 2019

A health worker spreading disinfectant at a health checkpoint in Goma, DRC. Patricia Martinez/EPA-EFE

Healthcare

Ebola survivors can pass on the virus: we're trying to understand what role sex plays

Andrew L Webb, Brayden G Schindell, Jason Kindrachuk & Jia B Kangbai 27 Sep 2019

Tedros Ghebreyesus, embarrassed to only talk about Ebola. Salvatore Di Nolfi/EPA

Healthcare

Over 3,000 killed by deadly virus in Democratic Republic of the Congo this year - and it's not Ebola

Jeremy Rossman & Matthew Badham 19 Sep 2019

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

Healthcare

How outbreaks like Ebola extract huge social and economic costs

Abdhalah Ziraba 22 Aug 2019

DRC President Felix Tshisekedi during the inauguration ceremony. Hugh Kinsella Cunningham/EPA-EFE

Healthcare

Tshisekedi has taken over the DRC's Ebola response. How he can make a difference

Mosoka Fallah 12 Aug 2019

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

Healthcare

The Uganda vaccine trial: how African researchers are tackling Ebola

Yap Boum 8 Aug 2019

Dr Joseph Sempa of Sacema presenting at the 2019 Clinic on Meaningful Modelling of Epidemiological Data. AIMS-South Africa

Healthcare

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

Healthcare

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

Yap Boum 23 Jul 2019

A health worker administers the Ebola vaccine. EPA-EFE

Healthcare

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

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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

Healthcare

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

Shelley Lees & Luisa Enria 5 Jul 2019

Tijjani Muhammad-Bande, Nigeria’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations.

Marketing & Media

Africa helping to shape the world

Kingsley Ighobor 3 Jul 2019

Fruit bats can pass Ebola on to humans. Jeffrey Paul Wade/Shutterstock

Healthcare

Ebola outbreaks may be more common than we think

14 Jun 2019

Photo: Newstalk

Healthcare

Decolonising healthcare

6 Jun 2019

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

Healthcare

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

Mosoka Fallah 23 May 2019