Malaria in Africa: why most countries haven’t beaten it yet
WHO acknowledged these factors when it excluded Africa from its first Global Malaria Eradication Campaign, which ran from 1955 until 1969.
How US policy on abortion affects women in Africa
By Boniface Ushie, Research Scientist, African Population and Health Research Center and by Kenneth Juma, African Population and Health Research Center Policies and decisions made in the United States echo…
Antibiotic use in Uganda is high: Action is needed
Covid-19 is caused by a virus. And viruses are not treated with antibiotics.
Making Covid vaccines in Africa: Advances and sustainability issues
African countries failed to secure the vaccines they needed. As a result, pressure began to mount on the leaders of African countries to develop local Covid vaccine manufacturing capacity.
Top 25 Most Transformative Corporate Brands Impacting Business 2022
Through the Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development (AKFED), which is part of AKDN, the Aga Khan has invested in more than 150 companies in dozens of countries in Asia and Africa, including Kenya.
Top 25 Most Transformative Corporate Brands Impacting Business 2022
#13 Amref Amref Health Africa is the flagship sub-brand of the AMREF Brand.Amref Health Africa is the largest African-based and African-led health non-governmental organization (NGO) in the world. Officially founded in Kenya in 1957 to deliver mobile…
Wins, missteps and lessons: African experts reflect on two years of Covid response
The fact that two years into the pandemic, the North-South disparities and unequal power structures in global health are still intact is a huge cause for concern
How drug companies are sidestepping the WHO’s technology transfer hub in Africa
Moderna’s decision to continue making the vaccine itself, though on the Kenyan site, is a signal that the company (at least for the moment) is not considering licensing its technology to a third party for local manufacture.
A deep data dive reveals extent of unequal water provision in Nairobi
Data on water supply and consumption is key in assessing the gaps in the water distribution process.
Here’s where and how you are most likely to catch COVID – new study
All variants of SARS-CoV-2 are equally airborne, but the chance of catching COVID depends on the transmissibility or contagiousness of the variant (delta was more contagious than previous variants