Before the COVID pandemic, efforts to address the challenge of limited vaccine production on the continent yielded little success.
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Mobile health or mHealth is an appealing way to reach adolescents because it offers opportunities to deliver and monitor health interventions at a much lower cost.
Nearly three-quarters of all patients in the study were taking at least one antibiotic. This is high and could indicate overuse.
It is likely that countries may use the US abortion ban to further restrict abortion access for fear of losing health funding.
For every maternal death, there are about an additional 20 women who suffer serious injuries, infections and disabilities related to pregnancy.
Regulations that limit fundamental human rights should be accompanied by a transparent risk and benefit analysis.
The displacement of people and overcrowding that often results from flooding provide optimal conditions for outbreaks of respiratory and gastrointestinal illness.
During fasting, meal schedules, fluid intake, and sleep and wake times are altered.
Insecticide resistance is a growing threat to malaria control efforts globally. It is, thus, important to keep a close eye on vector mosquito populations in affected areas.
South Africa is one of the few malaria-endemic countries in Africa that did not see a major upsurge in malaria cases caused by COVID-related disruptions.
The loss of income, economic and food insecurity, fear of infection, and death of family members resulted in feelings of frustration, anxiety and depression.
Up to 257 million women who want to avoid pregnancy are not using safe, modern contraception methods
Kenya wants parents to be able to make more informed choices about feeding their babies.
At this point it’s pragmatic to integrate COVID-19 management into routine health practices.
Antimicrobial resistance disproportionately affects the world’s poorest and most vulnerable populations in low- and middle-income countries.
There remains a crucial need for animal models to understand health and disease and to develop medicines.
Mental health problems are major indirect consequences of armed conflicts and can have short-term and long-term effects on people.
Unless special attention is given to conflict and HIV the war will undermine the achievement of the 2030 goals to end AIDS, discrimination, and new infections.
In high-income countries people at high risk of TB disease undergo screening programmes even when they have no symptoms.
The country’s urban centres where unvaccinated people live in crowed settlements are key risk areas.
Improving genomic surveillance to better understand new variants as they arise in different parts of the world could prevent threats to vulnerable health systems and populations.
Despite the high incidence of adolescent pregnancy and the risks it poses, there isn’t much data on maternal mental health in this age group in sub-Saharan Africa.
Moves by Moderna and BioNTech to make vaccines themselves in African countries signal that the companies aren’t considering licensing its technology to a third party for local manufacture.
Progress against neglected tropical diseases is now at real risk of reversal as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
It’s a huge cause for concern that, two years into the pandemic, the disparities and unequal power structures in global health are still intact.