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Doctors and medical practitioners under the Kenya Medical Practitioners Pharmacists and Dentists Union (KMPDU) participate in a demonstration to demand payment of their salary arrears and the immediate hiring of trainee doctors, among other grievances, in Nairobi, Kenya, 16 April 2024. Reuters/Thomas Mukoya/File Photo

Kenyan government doctors sign agreement to end strikeGeorge Obulutsa

The power of African creativity: Our time is now!

The power of African creativity: Our time is now!

By Raymond Langa 24 Apr 2024

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South Korea: Junior doctors strike amid concerns over low doctor-to-patient ratio

By Katja Hamilton 4 Mar 2024

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

President Cyril Ramaphosa

Ramaphosa signs Presidential Health Compact

26 Jul 2019

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Pinterest launches 'emotional well-being activities' for stressed internet users

Shereesa Moodley 25 Jul 2019

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#bhf2019conference: How blockchain can eliminate fraud, waste & abuse

Nicci Botha 25 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

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

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

Bizcommunity.com 23 Jul 2019

What do South Africans think about SA's proposed Tobacco Bill?

What do South Africans think about SA's proposed Tobacco Bill?

23 Jul 2019

Women walk past a mural painted to raise awareness on HIV and AIDS in Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya. EPA/Dai Kurokawa

HIV in Kenya: high risk groups aren't getting the attention they need

Makobu Kimani 19 Jul 2019

Photo: World Economic Forum

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

Countries can be better prepared and respond faster to disease outbreaks if public health data is shared more freely. Shutterstock

Sharing data can help prevent public health emergencies in Africa

Moses John Bockarie 8 Jul 2019

#Newsmaker: "PR is creative!" - Lebo Madiba, Ogilvy PR's new managing partner

#Newsmaker: "PR is creative!" - Lebo Madiba, Ogilvy PR's new managing partner

Jessica Tennant 5 Jul 2019

A man pushes a wheelbarrow past a sign in Liberia during the West African Ebola outbreak. AHMED JALLANZO/EPA

Context matters in fighting Ebola: lessons from West Africa for the DRC

Shelley Lees & Luisa Enria 5 Jul 2019

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

Change across healthcare ecosystems in Africa

Anuschka Coovadia 5 Jul 2019

Ambitious plans to vaccinate more than a million against cholera

4 Jul 2019

Dr Dan Wu, postdoctoral fellow in the RCSI Department of Chemistry and first author on the paper

Fluorescence imaging could transform cancer surgery

2 Jul 2019

Doctors preparing to perform an operation. Shutterstock

Why Nigeria's doctors are leaving, and how the problem can be fixed

Olayinka Stephen 2 Jul 2019

To protect us all, babies travelling overseas may need the measles shot at 6 months instead of 12

To protect us all, babies travelling overseas may need the measles shot at 6 months instead of 12

Nicholas Wood, Alexis Pillsbury and Jean Li-Kim-Moy 28 Jun 2019

Neville Isdell and Kelly Chibale

R18m donation for African-centric medicine research

28 Jun 2019

80's child/Shutterstock

Alzheimer's disease not linked to type 2 diabetes or high blood pressure - new study

Elisabet Englund & Keivan Javanshiri 26 Jun 2019

A child about to have his rotten tooth capped at the author’s clinic in Khartoum, Sudan. Author provided

Saving children's teeth in Sudan - without anaesthetic or drills

Fadil Elamin 25 Jun 2019

Border screening at Kenya’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport. EPA-EFE/DANIEL IRUNGU

Kenya responded fast to Ebola scare, but cross-border risk remains high

Abdhalah Ziraba 21 Jun 2019

Integrated approach needed to aid conservation, health

Integrated approach needed to aid conservation, health

21 Jun 2019

There’s a lack of research that deals specifically with conditions in African countries. Shutterstock

Africa needs to up its research game to fight non-communicable diseases

Andre Pascal Kengne, Elvis Banboye Kidzeru & Muki Shey 19 Jun 2019

Health workers from Bwera hospital prepare to transport the body of a fifty-year-old woman who died of Ebola to the burial site in Bwera, Uganda. MELANIE ATUREEBE/EPA

How Africa's porous borders make it difficult to contain Ebola

Mosoka Fallah 18 Jun 2019

The three big studies pushing at the frontiers of HIV prevention

Glenda Gray 14 Jun 2019

Fruit bats can pass Ebola on to humans. Jeffrey Paul Wade/Shutterstock

Ebola outbreaks may be more common than we think

14 Jun 2019

Professor Valerie Mizrahi. Photo: Robyn Walker/UCT

UCT scientist uses award to fund TB research

10 Jun 2019

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

What the US could learn about vaccination from Nigeria

Shobana Shankar 7 Jun 2019

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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

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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

President Cyril Ramaphosa

Ramaphosa signs Presidential Health Compact

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Image credit: Pinterest.

Pinterest launches 'emotional well-being activities' for stressed internet users

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Image source: Getty/Gallo

#bhf2019conference: How blockchain can eliminate fraud, waste & abuse

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

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What do South Africans think about SA's proposed Tobacco Bill?

What do South Africans think about SA's proposed Tobacco Bill?

23 Jul 2019

Women walk past a mural painted to raise awareness on HIV and AIDS in Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya. EPA/Dai Kurokawa

HIV in Kenya: high risk groups aren't getting the attention they need

Makobu Kimani 19 Jul 2019

Photo: World Economic Forum

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

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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

Countries can be better prepared and respond faster to disease outbreaks if public health data is shared more freely. Shutterstock

Sharing data can help prevent public health emergencies in Africa

Moses John Bockarie 8 Jul 2019

#Newsmaker: "PR is creative!" - Lebo Madiba, Ogilvy PR's new managing partner

#Newsmaker: "PR is creative!" - Lebo Madiba, Ogilvy PR's new managing partner

Jessica Tennant 5 Jul 2019

A man pushes a wheelbarrow past a sign in Liberia during the West African Ebola outbreak. AHMED JALLANZO/EPA

Context matters in fighting Ebola: lessons from West Africa for the DRC

Shelley Lees & Luisa Enria 5 Jul 2019

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

Change across healthcare ecosystems in Africa

Anuschka Coovadia 5 Jul 2019

Ambitious plans to vaccinate more than a million against cholera

4 Jul 2019

Dr Dan Wu, postdoctoral fellow in the RCSI Department of Chemistry and first author on the paper

Fluorescence imaging could transform cancer surgery

2 Jul 2019

Doctors preparing to perform an operation. Shutterstock

Why Nigeria's doctors are leaving, and how the problem can be fixed

Olayinka Stephen 2 Jul 2019

To protect us all, babies travelling overseas may need the measles shot at 6 months instead of 12

To protect us all, babies travelling overseas may need the measles shot at 6 months instead of 12

Nicholas Wood, Alexis Pillsbury and Jean Li-Kim-Moy 28 Jun 2019

Neville Isdell and Kelly Chibale

R18m donation for African-centric medicine research

28 Jun 2019

80's child/Shutterstock

Alzheimer's disease not linked to type 2 diabetes or high blood pressure - new study

Elisabet Englund & Keivan Javanshiri 26 Jun 2019

A child about to have his rotten tooth capped at the author’s clinic in Khartoum, Sudan. Author provided

Saving children's teeth in Sudan - without anaesthetic or drills

Fadil Elamin 25 Jun 2019

Border screening at Kenya’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport. EPA-EFE/DANIEL IRUNGU

Kenya responded fast to Ebola scare, but cross-border risk remains high

Abdhalah Ziraba 21 Jun 2019

Integrated approach needed to aid conservation, health

Integrated approach needed to aid conservation, health

21 Jun 2019

There’s a lack of research that deals specifically with conditions in African countries. Shutterstock

Africa needs to up its research game to fight non-communicable diseases

Andre Pascal Kengne, Elvis Banboye Kidzeru & Muki Shey 19 Jun 2019

Health workers from Bwera hospital prepare to transport the body of a fifty-year-old woman who died of Ebola to the burial site in Bwera, Uganda. MELANIE ATUREEBE/EPA

How Africa's porous borders make it difficult to contain Ebola

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The three big studies pushing at the frontiers of HIV prevention

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Fruit bats can pass Ebola on to humans. Jeffrey Paul Wade/Shutterstock

Ebola outbreaks may be more common than we think

14 Jun 2019

Professor Valerie Mizrahi. Photo: Robyn Walker/UCT

UCT scientist uses award to fund TB research

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

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Decolonising healthcare

6 Jun 2019

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Chronic diseases and their impact on the economy

5 Jun 2019

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U-turn in cannabis regulations opens up market

Megan Adderley, Rodney Africa, Adriano Esterhuizen & Deerah Pillay-Lungoomiah 3 Jun 2019

Mycobacterium tuberculosis under the microscope.

SU researchers study resistance to 'protect' new TB drug

3 Jun 2019

Drone to deliver life-saving blood

Drone to deliver life-saving blood

3 Jun 2019

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#AfricaMonth: Re-envisioning Africa's healthcare system

31 May 2019

Historically, Khoisan people from southern Africa were used as scientific subjects in racist experiments. hecke61/Shutterstock

How controversial "racist" research opens door for a decolonisation drive

30 May 2019

Vector control targeting the larval phase of the mosquito’s life cycle can be successful. Shutterstock

Killing mosquito larvae can contribute towards malaria elimination

Tiaan de Jager & Taneshka Kruger 30 May 2019

Nestlé launches innovation challenge in 6 African countries

Nestlé launches innovation challenge in 6 African countries

28 May 2019

Kenya’s Eliud Kipchoge on his way to wining the London Marathon in April 2019. EPA-EFE/Facundo Arrizabalaga

Kipchoge's marathon success remains a mystery: some clues from my research

Vincent O Onywera 27 May 2019