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WHO says risk 'moderate' after laboratory in Sudan seized by fighters

2 May 2023

Source: Supplied. Stellenbosch University's new Biomedical Research Institute, home to Ceri, is the most advanced research facility of its kind on the African continent.

Abbott partners with Ceri to address viral threats

2 May 2023

Equatorial Guinea confirms eight more Marburg cases - WHO

Sofia Christensen and Nellie Peyton 24 Mar 2023

An Ebola survivor who works as a nurse, waits to receive tubes for taking blood samples at the Ebola treatment centre in Katwa, near Butembo, in the DRC, 3 October 2019. Reuters/Zohra Bensemra

DRC declares end to Ebola outbreak

Nellie Peyton 4 Jul 2022

Abbott seeks new treatment standards for Africa's silent killer disease

Abbott seeks new treatment standards for Africa's silent killer disease

29 Apr 2022

Source: Supplied. Regional Office for Africa, World Health Organization.

Malawi declares polio outbreak

1 Mar 2022

A child gets a dose of the oral polio vaccine. Simon Maina/AFP via Getty Images

It's been a year since Africa was declared polio free. But a threat remains

Wayne Howard & Melinda Suchard 27 Aug 2021

A health worker receives a vaccine against Ebola at a hospital after a case of Ebola was confirmed in Abidjan, Ivory Coast 16 August 2021. Reuters/Luc Gnago

Ivory Coast begins Ebola vaccinations after case confirmed in Abidjan

Loucoumane Coulibaly 17 Aug 2021

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Vaccine denialism kills: Mail & Guardian has let down its readers

Nathan Geffen and Mia Malan 10 Aug 2021

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Guinea records West Africa's first Marburg virus death

10 Aug 2021

Barbie debuts dolls in likeness of Covid-19 frontline workers

Barbie debuts dolls in likeness of Covid-19 frontline workers

5 Aug 2021

A childhood vaccine given at birth is effective. BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

This is no time to neglect hepatitis - 70-million Africans are infected

Pauline Bakibinga 27 Jul 2021

A health worker examines a child for signs of trachoma Joe McNally/Getty Images

How The Gambia beat trachoma, an infection that causes blindness

Musa Mutali 7 Jun 2021

Ebola survivors: their health struggles and how best to support them

Ebola survivors: their health struggles and how best to support them

Peter B James, Abdulai Jawo Ba, Amie Steel, Jon Adams & Jon Wardle 28 May 2021