When I first spoke to Yap Boum II in January, 2025, he had recently become Deputy Incident Manager for the continental response to mpox with the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention ...
The COVID-19 pandemic showed in real time, and with the highest of stakes, how hard it can be to decide if something is true. Was the virus transmitted via surfaces or airborne particles? Which drugs ...
This is not only good in itself. It also contributes to future prosperity, since healthier populations tend to be more ...
Thursday March 27 marks exactly five years since President Cyril Ramaphosa placed the nation under a strict lockdown to ...
According to the National Income Dynamics Study (Coronavirus Rapid Mobile Survey), South Africa lost a decade’s worth of jobs ...
The Trump administration intends to terminate the United States’ financial support for Gavi, the organization that has helped ...
Federal leaders looked to Ralph Baric to end the pandemic. Their critics blamed it on him. Now, the White House wants to slash his funding.
The US Department of Health and Human Services announced Thursday it is cutting 10,000 full-time employees across health ...
The United States cutting funding to Gavi, an organisation that provides vaccines to the world's poorest countries, could ...
The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) say that Norovirus and Avian flu, otherwise known as bird flu, are on the list as well as ...