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Made in Africa: How Kenya, South Africa are reversing vaccine dependency
For decades the continent consumed what others produced. A billion-dollar facility in South Africa…
When rains fail, hunger arrives with empty stomachs, wallets, poor health
Drought means less food, stunted growth for children, and mothers facing higher…
52 million doses of hope: How Africa is slowly, but surely rolling back childhood malaria
Malaria’s vaccine breakthrough moment is here, but a funding gap and fragile…
Finance Bill 2026 targets tobacco taxes as WHO warns of rising youth nicotine addiction
Nicotine is highly addictive and particularly harmful to children and adolescents, with…
Disease outbreaks are not the problem; systems that fail to detect them are
From diagnostic gaps to community mistrust, the panel of global health leaders…
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…
