Kenya intensifies Ebola preparedness amid funding gaps
As Ebola spreads, Kenya is relying on border screening, thermal scanners and…
The hardest goodbye: When Kenyan medics at Ebola frontlines wrote wills, prepared own funerals
Lydia Mukhaye thought about her hubby, her children, the possibility she might never…
No margin for error: Why Happy Shower is not a joke at Ebola simulation centre
Inside the Nairobi simulation centre, the drills are running, chlorine is ready,…
No visa needed: When people move, Ebola moves with them too
Unlike diseases that remain geographically contained, Ebola travels with people. A trader crossing a border,…
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…
The Pandemic’s True Toll: Covid-19 caused 22.1 million deaths, three times what was reported
A new WHO report lays bare the scale of the Covid-19 pandemic’s hidden mortality and…
Ebola resembles malaria… that’s what makes it dangerous
Early symptoms of the Bundibugyo virus are indistinguishable from common infections -…
Beyond the PPE: Inside the world of an Ebola treatment centre
Through years of confronting Ebola across multiple outbreaks, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has honed…
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…
