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Clear mandate: Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus
AFRICA CDC

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.

  • Marcia Zali
2 min read
AFRICA

‘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…

  • Aanu Adeoye
  • Simon Allison
5 min read
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.
AFRICA CENTRE FOR DISEASE CONTROL

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

  • A. Kayum Ahmed
4 min read
People’s temperature are being measured at a border between Abuja and the Nasarawa State on March 30 2020, after Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari called for a lockdown to limit the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus. – Over 20 million Nigerians on Monday scrambled to prepare for lockdown in sub-Saharan Africa’s biggest city Lagos and the capital Abuja, as the continent struggled to curb the spread of the coronavirus. President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered a two-week “cessation of all movements” in the key cities in a bid to ward off an explosion of cases in Africa’s most populous country. (Photo by Kola Sulaimon/AFP via Getty Images)
AFRICA

The realities of politics, testing and mitigation in Africa

Covid-19 has a much different effect on the continent than it does elsewhere

  • Utibe Effiong
  • Akpabio Akpabio
5 min read