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Public Health

The global health system can build back better after US aid cuts – here’s how

Jonathan E. Cohen 6 hours

Fish deaths in Lake Victoria raise alarm over disease and antibiotic resistance

Fishing

Fish deaths in Lake Victoria raise alarm over disease and antibiotic resistance

3 days

Wits University researchers are scrambling to manage the fallout from the decision by US President Donald Trump to slash funding to South Africa. Photo: Ihsaan Haffejee / GroundUp

Higher Education

Wits scrambles to lessen fallout from Trump’s funding cuts

Aisling de Lange 21 May 2025

Training boosts output, disease control for Kenyan smallholder fish farmers

Fishing

Training boosts output, disease control for Kenyan smallholder fish farmers

19 Dec 2024

SA fruit industry launches pest monitoring centre

Agriculture

SA fruit industry launches pest monitoring centre

3 Dec 2024

Infectious Diseases

WHO: Governments urged to prioritise hepatitis testing, treatment

30 Jul 2024

Source: Supplied. Bada Pharasi, chief executive officer of the Innovative Pharmaceutical Association of South Africa (Ipasa).

Healthcare

Research and innovation key to safeguarding SA’s health resiliency

27 Jun 2024

Source: Supplied. Nqobile Ndlovu, chief executive officer of ASLM and Tom Berkovits, senior director of Illumina Africa Middle East and Asia-Pacific during the MoU signing between The African Society for Laboratory Medicine and Illumina at the 6th Biennial ASLM2023 conference in Cape Town.

Medtech

ASLM and Illumina: Genomics empowers Africa's pandemic readiness

29 Dec 2023

Vaccinating livestock against common diseases is a form of direct climate action

Agriculture

Vaccinating livestock against common diseases is a form of direct climate action

Jude Capper and David Barrett 27 Dec 2023

Healthcare

AUC, Africa CDC, and Gavi forge strategic vaccine partnership

16 Oct 2023

Emergency Medicine

Southern African children targeted in mass polio vaccination drives

18 Mar 2022

Source: Worldbank.org. World Bank Headquarters, Washington D.C.

Finance

World Bank's $157bn takes edge off global pandemic fallout

2 Mar 2022

Travel bans aren't the answer to stopping new Covid variant Omicron

Travel

Travel bans aren't the answer to stopping new Covid variant Omicron

Anthony Zwi 30 Nov 2021

Source: ©niyazz

Specialties

Equity call for rare diseases healthcare

8 Sep 2021

International efforts should prioritise equitable access to vaccines. Immanuel A.Afolabi/Majority World/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Covid-19

The impact of Covid-19 has been lower in Africa. We explore the reasons

Alex Ezeh, Michael Silverman & Saverio Stranges 18 Aug 2021

Source: ©Romolo Tavani

Covid-19

We created a tool to help predict Covid-19 increases in African countries

Steven J Schiff, Andrew Geronimo, Claudio Fronterre & Paddy Ssentongo 23 Jul 2021

The research was conducted at the Zambia University Teaching Hospital morgue. Salim Dawood/AFP via Getty Images

Covid-19

Latest data from Lusaka morgue analysis shows spike in Covid-19 deaths

Christopher J Gill 12 Jul 2021

The next pandemic is already happening - targeted disease surveillance can help prevent it

Infectious Diseases

The next pandemic is already happening - targeted disease surveillance can help prevent it

Maureen Miller 3 Jun 2021

Developing a business plan to assist in the development of Livestock Identification and Traceability System

Agribusiness

Developing a business plan to assist in the development of Livestock Identification and Traceability System

Issued by Enterprises University of Pretoria 1 Jun 2021

How South Africa is tracking adverse reactions to Covid-19 vaccines

Covid-19

How South Africa is tracking adverse reactions to Covid-19 vaccines

24 May 2021

The Nigerian government struggles to contain Covid-19 while other diseases suffer some measure of neglect Photo by Kola Sulaimon/AFP via Getty Images

Covid-19

Where Covid-19 has left Nigeria's health system

Adejuwon Soyinka 14 Dec 2020

Medical Research

South Africa is testing digital technology to detect outbreaks of respiratory diseases

Cheryl Cohen & Sibongile Walaza 5 Nov 2020

The polio eradication programme in Africa directly combated a severe debilitating disease. Yasuyoshi Chiba / AFP via Getty Images

Infectious Diseases

How ending polio in Africa has had positive spinoffs for public health

Charles Shey Wiysonge 4 Nov 2020

Environmental surveillance could provide an earlier and clearer picture for public health interventions

Environment & Natural Resources

Environmental surveillance could provide an earlier and clearer picture for public health interventions

Dr Eunice Ubomba-Jaswa and Dr Nonhlanhla Kalebaila 23 Sep 2020

New app addresses Covid-19 reinfection fears

Mobile & Apps

New app addresses Covid-19 reinfection fears

8 May 2020

Photo: @PresidencyZA

Covid-19

Cuban medics arrive in SA to fight Covid-19

28 Apr 2020

What Level 4 lockdown means to businesses

Economy

What Level 4 lockdown means to businesses

24 Apr 2020

Genomic sequencing can help in understanding viruses. Gio.tto/Shutterstock

Covid-19

Africa joins the race to trace Covid-19 with genomics

Peter van Heusden 20 Apr 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

Infectious Diseases

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

13 Feb 2020

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

Infectious Diseases

Perspectives from Kenya and Ghana on coronavirus preparations

29 Jan 2020

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

Infectious Diseases

Complacency could delay the final push to eradicate polio

Villyen Motaze & Melinda Suchard 5 Dec 2019

Image: Medicines for Malaria

Malaria

Climate change could increase the threat of malaria in Central Africa

23 Oct 2019

World Health Organisation

Infectious Diseases

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

15 Oct 2019

Ministers pledge to fight the rise in vector-borne diseases

Malaria

Ministers pledge to fight the rise in vector-borne diseases

23 Aug 2019

Dr Anuschka Coovadia is the head of healthcare for Africa at KPMG

Public Health

Change across healthcare ecosystems in Africa

Anuschka Coovadia 5 Jul 2019

Two women sell roadside refreshments in rural Kano in 2011. Shobana Shankar, CC BY-SA

Infectious Diseases

What the US could learn about vaccination from Nigeria

Shobana Shankar 7 Jun 2019

Image source: Getty/Gallo

Infectious Diseases

WHO puts influenza plan in place

12 Mar 2019

An aid worker collects health and nutrition data in northeastern Kenya. Shutterstock

Public Health

Why fixing Africa's data gaps will lead to better health policies

27 Feb 2019

Nigeria was quick to respond and control the 2014 Ebola outbreak. EPA

Infectious Diseases

Why Nigeria is battling to control disease outbreaks like Lassa fever

Oyewale Tomori 22 Feb 2019

International push to improve food safety

Health & Safety

International push to improve food safety

18 Feb 2019

Immunisation coverage stagnating in Africa

Public Health

Immunisation coverage stagnating in Africa

25 Jan 2019

A portable DNA sequencer in action. UGA CAES/Extension/Flickr

Medtech

DNA sequencing can help fight epidemics - but there are privacy risks

Liam Shaw & Nicola C Sugden 14 Jan 2019

Measles cases spike globally due to gaps in vaccination coverage

Infectious Diseases

Measles cases spike globally due to gaps in vaccination coverage

24 Dec 2018

12 African social enterprises awarded funding from Google

ESG

12 African social enterprises awarded funding from Google

4 Dec 2018

Professor Souleymane Mboup

Infectious Diseases

Health is essential for Africa to cash in on its human capital

Souleymane Mboup 26 Oct 2018

WHO offers regional support in listeriosis crisis

Public Health

WHO offers regional support in listeriosis crisis

10 Apr 2018

Partnership beefs up veterinary services across Africa, Asia and Middle East to tackle animal disease

Agriculture

Partnership beefs up veterinary services across Africa, Asia and Middle East to tackle animal disease

12 Mar 2018

Samples of the motorcycles donated by WHO. Image: Ayodamola Owoseye. Source:

Healthcare

WHO donates 853 motorcycles to Nigeria

Ayodamola Owoseye 23 Jan 2018

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Agriculture

Organisations join forces, launches roadmap to combat zoonotic TB

13 Oct 2017

WHO report: Kenyan cholera outbreak

Infectious Diseases

WHO report: Kenyan cholera outbreak

2 Aug 2017