Challenges that women and girls in low-income areas face have been worsened by measures taken to slow the spread of COVID-19.
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An easy question, but a difficult answer.
Africa needs to be better prepared to deal with future pandemics. That should start with a re-assessment of how countries invest in – and support – local research.
This is the first time that camel handlers in East Africa have been shown to have been exposed to MERS.
Two thirds of South African women are overweight or obese and their babies are three times more likely to become obese themselves.
Neighborhood characteristics like pollution from busy roads, widespread public transit use and lack of community-based health care are putting certain communities at greater risk from COVID-19.
The court says people need to be able to trust the government to abide by the rule of law, make rational regulations, and not intrude on the rights of those subject to the law.
In poorer parts of the world, such as sub-Saharan Africa, health systems are not designed to care for people with chronic conditions. They are more focused on single, acute diseases.
One of the methods researchers are exploring to combat COVID-19 is gene editing: altering the genome of the virus to make it harmless.
Gross negligence won’t be excused under any circumstances. But standards for reasonable medical care can’t be the same as in pre-COVID-19 times.
The WHO’s legitimacy is at stake – it must answer tough questions on whether it kow-towed to China.
Special steps need to be taken to blunt the impact of school closures, particuarly on girls.
Fun fact: the term ‘influenza’ comes from the premodern belief stars influenced disease. Before epidemiologists, there were astrologers.
Myiasis, a neglected tropical disease, can cause severe clinical outbreaks in humans and animals with potential economic losses in the livestock industry.
Frederick Law Olmsted, the designer of many great North American city parks, understood that ready access to nature made cities healthier places to live.
For centuries, disease outbreaks have forced cities to transform physically and operationally in ways that ultimately benefited all residents going forward.
There is hard and persistent work that needs to be planned for, like a kind of ongoing rehabilitation process, to realise the dream of one health system for all South Africans.
Authorities around the world can do more to ensure that correct information and messages on the pandemic reach everybody.
Researchers report on how COVID-19 is affecting isolated Indigenous communities. Their voices bridge the urban divide, reveal challenges and describe some unexpected bonuses.
More effort must go into building synergies between emergent local efforts and the government response.
On this continent, a child dies from malaria every two minutes. This is an unacceptable reality for a treatable and preventable disease.
COVID-19 differs significantly from HIV and Ebola. But the potential consequences of having a misinformed public are similar.
Recommendations around mask usage are confusing. The science isn’t. Evidence shows that masks are extremely effective to slow the coronavirus and may be the best tool available right now to fight it.
NZ$4.3 billion will go some way to patch up long-standing cracks in New Zealand’s health system. But COVID-19 has shown NZ’s regional approach to health isn’t good enough against a nationwide threat.
The do’s and don’t of wearing a mask.