Zika Virus

Safeguarding women’s rights during the Covid-19 shutdown

Article Susan Tolmay & Colleen Lowe Morna - 24 Mar 2020

Women will be disproportionately affected by the coronavirus pandemic, particularly considering their contribution as caregivers, in both professional and domestic settings

Far right uses coronavirus to scapegoat refugees

Article Haris Zargar - 22 Mar 2020

Europe’s far-right nationalists are closing their borders and using Covid-19 as a guise to deport and deny entry to refugees and asylum seekers

AI set to transform healthcare

Article Nafisa Akabor - 15 Feb 2019

High-perfoming computers can analyse huge swaths of health data accurately and quickly

‘We’ve been forgotten’: Brazil’s Zika generation

Article bogdan TagDiv - 18 Dec 2018

Between November 2015 and May 2018, Brazil's health ministry registered more than 3 000 cases linked to Zika infections during pregnancy

Tedros aims to turn the WHO around

Africa Mercedes Sayagues - 8 Jun 2018

Good things are being said about the World Health Organisation since Ethiopia’s man came on board

Viruses, vaccines and superbugs: The biggest health stories of 2016

Article Laura Lopez Gonzalez - 22 Dec 2016

This year wasn’t pretty but from its ashes may rise important scientific advances that could change the course of history.

Sporting political and economic risk kicks off this week

Analysis Andrew Hammond - 6 Jun 2016

Everyone wants to host mega-events despite the cost and other problems, such as terror attacks.

WHO advises 8 weeks of safe sex after return from Zika areas

Article Tom Miles - 1 Jun 2016

The World Health Organisation has recommended that people potentially exposed to the Zika virus should practice safe sex.

US health authorities confirm Zika causes birth defects

Article bogdan TagDiv - 14 Apr 2016

Scientists have confirmed that the virus causes microcephaly.

White House: $589m from Ebola to go to fight Zika virus

Article Staff Reporter - 7 Apr 2016

Federal money left over from the fight against Ebola will now go to combating the growing threat of the Zika virus, the Obama administration has said.

WHO experts in Cape Verde to monitor Zika, microcephaly case

Article Staff Reporter - 21 Mar 2016

Cape Verde, which recorded 22 suspected cases of Zika in the first week of March alone, has reported its first case of microcephaly.

Innovation and technology will help to wipe out malaria

Article bogdan TagDiv - 16 Mar 2016

With the help of new technologies, global health organisations aim to eliminate malaria in Africa in the next 15 years.

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