WHO director-general gives African public health conference thumbs up
Ghebreyesus says Covid-19 pandemic highlights the importance of nurturing strong science and research on the continent.
Africa Centre for Disease Control
‘We can’t afford to become the Covid continent’
The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention only launched in 2017, but between Ebola, measles and the Covid-19 pandemic, it has had its work cut out for it. The agency’s director Dr John Nkengasong speaks to The Continent about the vaccine rollout and the turn of the tide in Tanzania
Decolonising the coronavirus vaccine
Africans can lead the charge to decolonise the profit-driven biomedical system by challenging European and American claims to prioritised access to the Covid-19 vaccine
The realities of politics, testing and mitigation in Africa
Covid-19 has a much different effect on the continent than it does elsewhere