How disease outbreaks begin: An animal host, a human jump, weak detection
Rodents carry it. Dust spreads it. Clinics miss it. And with no…
Sisters, stories & science: How Nigerian researcher is bringing STI and HIV care closer to women, girls
Dr Airat Bakare watched antiretroviral drugs scar fertility. Now she’s walking into schools with…
They have seen Ebola before & they are going back to the frontlines
Andre Kamano survived the Guinea outbreaks. Now, inside a simulation centre outside…
Treating cough, not the cry: How Kenya’s TB patients cope with isolation, panic attacks, economic stress
Depression and suicidal thoughts haunt thousands of TB patients during the six…
EXCLUSIVE | From ambulance bay to isolation ward: Inside Kenyatta National Hospital’s ‘Ebola Unit’
Treating Ebola is not simply a matter of isolation. The disease can…
From boots to bytes: Africa turns to AI, satellites and data in race against Ebola
From AI transmission maps to satellite internet in the bush, Africa CDC…
‘Ebola is not real’: How silence and mistrust are letting virus win in DRC
Armed conflict and the displacement of over a million people are fueling…
No symptoms, no diagnosis, no treatment: How South African researcher is fixing STI detection in women
Dr Fezile Khumalo, a South African researcher, is building a molecular diagnostic…
Dr Florentius Koech: Neurosurgeon snubbed lucrative jobs, Australian citizenship to serve Kenyans
As Dr Koech recovered from tetanus caught from a thorn prick while…
How Uganda contained Ebola… and what DRC can borrow
More than 18,000 people potentially exposed to Ebola in eastern DRC are unaccounted for…
