US aid freeze puts HIV treatment in Africa at risk
Milicent Muyoma has been turned away twice from the clinic where she collects her HIV medication in Mathare, an informal ...
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Africa CDC says mpox outbreak could grow in DR Congo conflict zone
Yesterday during a briefing, Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) Director-General Jean Kaseya, MD, MPH provided a ...
South Africa has amended its research guidelines to allow for heritable human genome editing
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A little-noticed change to South Africa's national health research guidelines, published in May of this year, ...
Over 2,700 suspected new mpox cases in one week in Africa
Mpox Virus Particle Colorized transmission electron micrograph of an mpox virus particle (yellow and red) found within an infected VERO ...
South Africa has a good childhood vaccination system—what’s stopping it from being great?
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The two public health interventions that have had the greatest impact on the world's health are ...
WHO grants first mpox vaccine approval to ramp up response to disease in Africa and beyond
A health worker attends to an mpox patient, at a treatment center in Munigi, eastern Congo, Aug. 19, 2024. Credit: ...
Mpox escalates in Africa as officials launch response plan
Mpox cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have now topped 20,000 for the year, and Guinea has ...
Negotiations progress on mpox vaccine for Africa as cases spike in Burundi
At an Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) briefing today, Director-General Jean Kaseya, MD, MPH, said new ...
Mpox outbreak in Africa was neglected—it could now turn into the next global pandemic
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The mpox outbreak in Africa is yet another example of how infectious diseases perceived to be ...
Failure to deal with mpox outbreak ‘is risk not just to Africa but whole world’ | Global health
A failure to show solidarity with African countries at the heart of the mpox outbreak will put the world at ...
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