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Understanding the drivers of early childbearing in specific contexts is important for effective policy making.
Because low-income settlements are unplanned, crowded and without sanitation, there are many viral infections that cause health problems.
Her commitment to the communities she was serving was unwavering. She ensured that research results were disseminated to communities before presenting at conferences.
In any national health disaster calling individuals to voluntarily restrict their movements and interactions, the conflict between public interest and personal autonomy is bound to become messy.
Crowdsourcing is a promising approach to biomedical research and development (R&D) and could produce solutions to pandemics like this one.
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How are tests developed for a specific virus and how does a country get the test kits it needs?
Nigeria’s reliance on drug importation is worrisome as COVID-19 pandemic rages.
The molecular based tests used to detect SARS-CoV-2 are very specific but can take two to three days to process and produce a result.
Very little is known about the relationship between COVID-19 and HIV and TB. What is known is that people’s lungs are affected by all three.
Could the 1889-1890 pandemic have been the result of cow coronaviruses jumping to humans?
The immediate need to “track and trace” infections for public health purposes poses an unprecedented challenge to privacy.
Scientists need greater understanding of the bacterium’s basic biology, as well as more about how it is spread from one individual to the next.
The agents causing illness do not care for our assumptions about our alleged superiority on the planet, nor do they discriminate.
Since 2010 the number of Kenyans going hungry has been growing. The country now suffers from serious levels of hunger
Social distancing is impossible in much of Africa, and its economic consequences may lead to a famine that is worse than the pandemic. Prevention measures must consider the African context.
Health literacy is the degree to which people can get, understand and use basic health information to make decisions about health issues.
Women must be included at decision making levels to advise on development, designing, delivery and implementation of tools that target health issues that affect them especially malaria.
Group B streptococcus is the most common bacterial cause of illness in newborn babies around the world.
Scientists need to close the knowledge gap around COVID-19 and the virus that causes it.
The World Health Organisation has a plan to halve deaths and disability from snakebites
The economic impact of the disease will have dramatic effects on the well-being of families and communities
The outbreak continues to spread in new geographies and in numbers.
Several questions about the origin of the outbreak remain with no clear data on what this was or if it was an animal source.
There are many questions left unanswered because the outbreak is still in an early stage.