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Spatial applications show where the Covid-19 vulnerable populations and active cases are, where to find care, and where there are resource gaps. Bushko Oleksandr/Shutterstock

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During the Covid-19 pandemic, WHO is supporting the Ghana Health Service in their efforts to continue providing essential medical services to the population at the Greater Accra Regional Hospital, Ghana. Photo: WHO / Blink Media - Nana Kofi Acquah

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People wait for care at a Kenyan clinic. Photo by Wendy Stone/Corbis via Getty Images

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Child mortality rates in the country are high. John Fredricks/NurPhoto via Getty Images

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Nigerian scientists are working to better understand coronavirus. African Center of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Disease

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Investment health-related research is not adequate. GettyImages

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Congolese artist Chris Shongo paints on the outside wall of the Academie des Beaux-Arts in Kinshasa on June 18, 2020.

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A nurse participates in the drill to test their system capabilities for the Covid-19 coronavirus mass patients influx at the Aga Khan University Hospital in Nairobi.

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Cardiovascular risk factors are high in Sierra Leone. Steven Rubin

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Young entrepreneur fills medical supply gap in rural Africa

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Nigerian scientists are working to better understand coronavirus. African Center of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Disease

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Investment health-related research is not adequate. GettyImages

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A woman gets her blood pressure checked at a camp for internally displaced people in Maiduguri, north-east Nigeria. Stefan Heunis/AFP via Getty Images

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Nurses attend the 2015 International Nurses’ Day celebrations in Johannesburg, South Africa. Ihsaan Haffejee/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

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A researcher holds a Covid-19 mRNA vaccine at the National Primate Research Center of Chulalongkorn University in Thailand. Chaiwat Subprasom/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

Africa waited for solutions to past health crises: will it be different for Covid-19?

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A pharmacy store in Ogun State, southwest Nigeria. Photo by Pius Utomi Ekpei /AFP via Getty Images

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Lagos state officials disinfecting roads in the state. Shutterstock

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Healthcare workers testing people in Nairobi, Kenya during a mass testing exercise for Covid-19. Photo by SIMON MAINA/AFP via Getty Images

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