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Ebola resembles malaria… that’s what makes it dangerous
Early symptoms of the Bundibugyo virus are indistinguishable from common infections -…
Eye-opening: How Kenya became the vision of Africa’s eye care revolution
With eye care now in the national benefits package, free services for…
How disease outbreaks begin: An animal host, a human jump, weak detection
Rodents carry it. Dust spreads it. Clinics miss it. And with no…
They have seen Ebola before & they are going back to the frontlines
Andre Kamano survived the Guinea outbreaks. Now, inside a simulation centre outside…
From boots to bytes: Africa turns to AI, satellites and data in race against Ebola
From AI transmission maps to satellite internet in the bush, Africa CDC…
‘Ebola is not real’: How silence and mistrust are letting virus win in DRC
Armed conflict and the displacement of over a million people are fueling…
How Uganda contained Ebola… and what DRC can borrow
More than 18,000 people potentially exposed to Ebola in eastern DRC are unaccounted for…
Over 100,000 screened: Kenya has no Ebola cases, but it’s not taking any chances
Kenya has 23 isolation facilities, four testing labs and 2,000 trained health…
SHA to crack down on facilities pushing patients to buy medicine out-of-pocket
Despite accessing consultations under SHA, many Kenyan patients still leave primary healthcare…
