The COVID-19 pandemic has tested Africa's public healthcare systems. It exposed weaknesses, gaps and inequalities—but also some potential solutions.
Jan 19, 2022
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The director of Africa's Centers for Disease Control said the organization is talking to Pfizer about bringing its COVID-19 treatment pill to the continent, which has just passed 10 million cases.
Jan 13, 2022
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A COVID-19 antibody survey conducted in Sierra Leone is the first nationally representative investigation of COVID-19 seroprevalence conducted on the African continent and presents evidence of large-scale underreporting of ...
Dec 21, 2021
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The impact of the pandemic on the African continent has been varied due to the fact that African countries are not on equal footing. For example, the lowest income countries may have among the highest burden of infectious ...
Dec 15, 2021
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The African continent might not reach the target of vaccinating 70% of its 1.3 billion population against COVID-19 until the second half of 2024, a target many of the world's richer countries have already met, the World Health ...
Dec 14, 2021
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On the heels of World AIDS Day, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced the Republic of Botswana as the first "high burden" country to be certified for achieving key milestones for the elimination of mother-to-child ...
Dec 7, 2021
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African health officials and the United Nations are warning of a looming shortage of more than 2 billion syringes for mainly low- and middle-income countries around the world as the supply of COVID-19 doses rises, and routine ...
Oct 28, 2021
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The World Health Organization said Thursday it needed $23.4 billion over the next 12 months for its plan to conquer COVID-19, urging the G20 to show some leadership and pay up.
Oct 28, 2021
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In an Ethiopian-German research collaboration, researchers of the Division of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine at the LMU University Hospital with participation of the University of Bonn investigated blood samples ...
Oct 21, 2021
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A very large international team of researchers has compiled and performed phylogenetic and phylogeographic analysis on massive amounts of data related to testing people in Africa for the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The results are ...
