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The challenges of delivering a Covid-19 vaccine in Africa requires a new approach

Africa Dr Leonard Bikinesi & Dr Sanjeev Arora - 14 Oct 2020

It is imperative that we train healthcare workers and participate in continent-wide collaboration

Three digital transformation priorities for African healthcare organisations

Opinion Mervyn George - 26 Sep 2020

With doctors in short supply, healthcare employers need to invest in intelligent technologies to make the experience of accessing healthcare as good as it can be, for all involved

The cost of Covid: 25 years of progress, halted

Africa Simon Allison - 16 Sep 2020

Development has been set back by two decades, says the Gates Foundation Goalkeepers report

Othering fatness: Medical professionals’ negative bias towards fat people jeopardises the quality of care

Health Pontsho Pilane - 21 Aug 2020

Pontsho Pilane speaks to three women who have found it difficult to access quality healthcare because of medical professionals’ weight bias

Covid-19 puts Sierra Leone’s expectant mothers at further risk

Africa Abdul S Brima - 20 Aug 2020

Almost 70% of the world’s maternal deaths happen in Africa. Now there’s coronavirus — and with poor prenatal and postnatal care on the continent, expectant mothers and children under five are even more vulnerable.

Covid-19 is an opportunity to make our circles bigger

Coronavirus Judy-Ann Cilliers - 31 Jul 2020

Xenophobia stalks us in this moment of crisis; our hope lies in humanity’s capacity to rebuild

ANC wants pension funds to finance infrastructure build

Business Thando Maeko - 10 Jul 2020

The party released its plan for the reconstruction of the country’s post-coronavirus economy on Friday. This would involve changes to Regulation 28 of the Pension Funds Act

Achille Mbembe: The universal right to breathe

Opinion Achille Mbembe - 24 Jun 2020

‘Modernity has been an interminable war on life. And it is far from over.’ We need to start anew; reclaim the oxygen that belongs to all on Earth

The coping mechanisms the DRC is putting in place as it faces Ebola, measles and Covid-19

Africa Yap Boum - 24 Jun 2020

The DRC has systematically gone about strengthening health infrastructure, engaging the community and doing better research

Global finance and charity killed African healthcare

Africa Francis Valentine Garikayi - 8 Jun 2020

What happened to the once universally accepted idea of healthcare for all?

Bumbling, irrational, deadly: The Tanzanian president is getting the Covid-19 response all wrong

Africa Zitto Kabwe - 25 May 2020

Discerning leadership is critical in the time of Covid-19 and John Magufuli’s decisions — or lack thereof — have put Tanzanians at greater risk

Are surrogate and IVF babies ‘essential’ in a pandemic?

Coronavirus Amrita Pande - 22 May 2020

Now is the time to examine how reproductive health in South Africa is riddled by inequities based on race and class

South Africa could see 40 000 Covid-19 deaths by November

Coronavirus Laura Lopez Gonzalez - 20 May 2020

South Africa won’t have enough hospital beds, intensive care or otherwise, to treat Covid-19 patients, official predictions reveal. But there’s still time to act, say experts

Three months in, Covid-19 poses triple threats in Africa

Africa Edwin Ikhuoria - 18 May 2020

Health, debt and hunger are huge threats to the continent’s stability

Open letter: Mr Biden, America must lead the next global catastrophe

Coronavirus Charles R Stith - 16 May 2020

Trump’s handling of the coronavirus crisis was a textbook example of what not to do, you will have to do it all differently

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