The country would benefit from a well-funded and regulated research industry to contribute to scientific innovation and preparedness for future disease outbreaks.
A child receives a vaccine against Ebola from a nurse in Goma on August 7, 2019.
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The policy and law applying to refugees and asylum seekers in South Africa is largely progressive. But, in practice, they continue to endure hardship and unfair treatment by officials.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom at an Ebola treatment centre in Itipo.
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Shelley Lees, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine et Luisa Enria, University of Bath
A proper understanding of community dynamics and local beliefs can inform medical interventions that are capable of establishing positive and productive relations with local communities.
The author, Dr. Steven Hatch, with members of a church in Gbanga, Liberia, in October 2014.
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