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VIDEO: Some basic tips on staying safe from the coronavirus

VIDEO: Some basic tips on staying safe from the coronavirus

Ozayr Patel 2 Mar 2020

Ebola posters in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
Olivia Acland / Barcroft Media via Getty Images /

Sierra Leone is using lessons from Ebola to prepare for coronavirus

28 Feb 2020

The links between people, animals and the environment call for a new approach to health. Shutterstock

Rwanda is training health workers for an interconnected world

Phaedra Henley 24 Feb 2020

Alarmed by a rapid spread of Lassa fever, the Nigerian Academy of Science is calling on government to declare a health emergency. Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP via Getty Images

Lassa fever: why there's a call to declare a health emergency in Nigeria

13 Feb 2020

Lessons from keeping the country free of Ebola have informed steps taken since the coronavirus scare first broke. Shutterstock

Nigeria and disease outbreaks. Better prepared, but still weak spots

Folasade Ogunsola 4 Feb 2020

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Fear spreads easily. That's what gives the Wuhan coronavirus economic impact

Ilan Noy 30 Jan 2020

Kenyan health workers from port health services screen inbound travellers for temperatures at Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport. EPA/Daniel Irungu

Perspectives from Kenya and Ghana on coronavirus preparations

29 Jan 2020

Successful vaccination against measles in childhood should provide lifetime protection. Paul Hennessy/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Explainer: a history of the measles virus and why it's so tenacious

Matthew Ferrari 28 Jan 2020

China in lockdown. EPA

Coronavirus does not look like a 'black swan' event - here are some reasons to be cautiously optimistic

Zheng Wang 27 Jan 2020

Mosquito eggs can remain viable for years even in dry conditions and hatch after heavy persistent rains. Shutterstock

Heavy rains put Kenya at risk of mosquito-borne diseases

Eunice Anyango Owino 23 Jan 2020

#BestofBiz 2019: Healthcare

#BestofBiz 2019: Healthcare

17 Dec 2019

Hugh Kinsella Cunningham/ EPA-EFE

Is it Ebola, or just a drill? How to test a public health crisis response

Mosoka Fallah 12 Dec 2019

HIV-infected and exposed children are vulnerable to vaccine-preventable diseases. Shutterstock

Children and HIV: what we found about vaccine-preventable diseases

Olatunji Adetokunboh 9 Dec 2019

A Nigerian child receives a dose of the polio vaccine. EPA

Complacency could delay the final push to eradicate polio

Villyen Motaze & Melinda Suchard 5 Dec 2019

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VIDEO: Some basic tips on staying safe from the coronavirus

VIDEO: Some basic tips on staying safe from the coronavirus

Ozayr Patel 2 Mar 2020

Ebola posters in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
Olivia Acland / Barcroft Media via Getty Images /

Sierra Leone is using lessons from Ebola to prepare for coronavirus

28 Feb 2020

The links between people, animals and the environment call for a new approach to health. Shutterstock

Rwanda is training health workers for an interconnected world

Phaedra Henley 24 Feb 2020

Alarmed by a rapid spread of Lassa fever, the Nigerian Academy of Science is calling on government to declare a health emergency. Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP via Getty Images

Lassa fever: why there's a call to declare a health emergency in Nigeria

13 Feb 2020

Lessons from keeping the country free of Ebola have informed steps taken since the coronavirus scare first broke. Shutterstock

Nigeria and disease outbreaks. Better prepared, but still weak spots

Folasade Ogunsola 4 Feb 2020

Image source: Getty/Gallo

Fear spreads easily. That's what gives the Wuhan coronavirus economic impact

Ilan Noy 30 Jan 2020

Kenyan health workers from port health services screen inbound travellers for temperatures at Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport. EPA/Daniel Irungu

Perspectives from Kenya and Ghana on coronavirus preparations

29 Jan 2020

Successful vaccination against measles in childhood should provide lifetime protection. Paul Hennessy/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Explainer: a history of the measles virus and why it's so tenacious

Matthew Ferrari 28 Jan 2020

China in lockdown. EPA

Coronavirus does not look like a 'black swan' event - here are some reasons to be cautiously optimistic

Zheng Wang 27 Jan 2020

Mosquito eggs can remain viable for years even in dry conditions and hatch after heavy persistent rains. Shutterstock

Heavy rains put Kenya at risk of mosquito-borne diseases

Eunice Anyango Owino 23 Jan 2020

#BestofBiz 2019: Healthcare

#BestofBiz 2019: Healthcare

17 Dec 2019

Hugh Kinsella Cunningham/ EPA-EFE

Is it Ebola, or just a drill? How to test a public health crisis response

Mosoka Fallah 12 Dec 2019

HIV-infected and exposed children are vulnerable to vaccine-preventable diseases. Shutterstock

Children and HIV: what we found about vaccine-preventable diseases

Olatunji Adetokunboh 9 Dec 2019

A Nigerian child receives a dose of the polio vaccine. EPA

Complacency could delay the final push to eradicate polio

Villyen Motaze & Melinda Suchard 5 Dec 2019

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SA's first Ebola case a training exercise

15 Nov 2019

Unicef carers at a creche for children whose parents are being treated for Ebola. Building health infrastructure is crucial to stopping the next outbreak. Epa/ Hugh Kinsella Cunningham

Investing in health systems is the only way to stop the next Ebola outbreak

Emma Glennon & Freya Jephcott 22 Oct 2019

Innovative efforts have been put in place to reach populations in partially and totally inaccessible parts of Borno state. Wikimedia Commons

Valuable lessons from Nigeria's marathon effort to eradicate polio

Oyewale Tomori 21 Oct 2019

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More than 18-million Ugandan children to be immunised against measles, rubella and polio

15 Oct 2019

Many families in the DRC can’t routinely access preventive services. Shutterstock

Outbreaks of measles: compounding challenges in the DRC

Matthew Ferrari 8 Oct 2019

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, World Health Organisation director-general, speaking on Ebola at the UN’s Geneva headquarters. EPA/Martial Trezzinni

Why it's dangerous for Tanzania to withhold information about Ebola fears

Abdhalah Ziraba 7 Oct 2019

Know your business inside out with a Biz Office

Know your business inside out with a Biz Office

Bizcommunity.com 2 Oct 2019

Hugh Kinsella Cunningham/EPA-EFE

Ebola one year on: the wins, the setbacks, and the way forward

Shirin Ashraf & Emma Thomson 30 Sep 2019

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Bizcommunity.com 27 Sep 2019

A health worker spreading disinfectant at a health checkpoint in Goma, DRC. Patricia Martinez/EPA-EFE

Ebola survivors can pass on the virus: we're trying to understand what role sex plays

Andrew L Webb, Brayden G Schindell, Jason Kindrachuk & Jia B Kangbai 27 Sep 2019

Training is necessary to equip health workers to deal with climate change risks. EPA

Ghana's health system isn't quite ready for climate change realities

Lucia Hussey 20 Sep 2019

Tedros Ghebreyesus, embarrassed to only talk about Ebola. Salvatore Di Nolfi/EPA

Over 3,000 killed by deadly virus in Democratic Republic of the Congo this year - and it's not Ebola

Jeremy Rossman & Matthew Badham 19 Sep 2019

The oral polio vaccine is most commonly used in the developing world, despite one big problem.
CDC/Alan Janssen, MSPH, CC BY

A newly designed vaccine may help stamp out remaining polio cases worldwide

Patricia L Foster 18 Sep 2019

Congolese National Army solider escorts health workers to the grave of an Ebola victim, in Beni, North Kivu province. EPA-EFE/HUGH KINSELLA CUNNINGHAM

Ebola in the Congo: a forgotten conflict became a danger to world health

Aymar Nyenyezi Bisoka 11 Sep 2019

A health worker checks people’s temperatures in Goma, DRC. Patricia Martinez/EPA-EFE

How outbreaks like Ebola extract huge social and economic costs

Abdhalah Ziraba 22 Aug 2019

Trachoma can lead to blindness if left untreated. Alaine Kathryn Knipes/CDC

Why it's proving hard to eliminate the eye disease trachoma by 2020

Musa Mutali 19 Aug 2019

High-income country trainees and experts must learn to listen and be humble. Shutterstock

Global health still mimics colonial ways: here's how to break the pattern

Madhukar Pai 19 Aug 2019

DRC President Felix Tshisekedi during the inauguration ceremony. Hugh Kinsella Cunningham/EPA-EFE

Tshisekedi has taken over the DRC's Ebola response. How he can make a difference

Mosoka Fallah 12 Aug 2019

A health worker prepares to administer Ebola vaccination in the north-western Democratic Republic of the Congo.
EPA-EFE/STR

The Uganda vaccine trial: how African researchers are tackling Ebola

Yap Boum 8 Aug 2019

The drug is set to improve HIV treatment. shutterstock

ARV breakthrough: trial in South Africa confirms effectiveness of new drug

Michelle Moorhouse & Willem Daniel Francois Venter 6 Aug 2019

Hepatitis is a major public health burden. Shutterstock

The WHO wants to rid the world of hepatitis by 2030: why it's a tough ask

Pauline Bakibinga 31 Jul 2019

Dr Joseph Sempa of Sacema presenting at the 2019 Clinic on Meaningful Modelling of Epidemiological Data. AIMS-South Africa

Africa needs specialist capacity to tackle the spread of infectious diseases

Juliet Pulliam & Jonathan Dushoff 29 Jul 2019

Health officer on the front-line in the DRC. Flickr

Why declaring Ebola a public health emergency isn't a silver bullet

Yap Boum 23 Jul 2019

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3 steps towards 'glass boxing' your company with a Biz Press Office

Bizcommunity.com 23 Jul 2019

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20-million children miss out on lifesaving measles, diphtheria and tetanus vaccines in 2018

16 Jul 2019

A health worker administers the Ebola vaccine. EPA-EFE

How the DRC's Ebola crisis has led to children dying from measles

Benjamin Kagina 10 Jul 2019