Frontline: Responding to Malawi’s health needs
An interview with Patrick Phiri, the health coordinator for the Malawi Red Cross, who is based in the country’s capital, Lilongwe. Read more.
New era for health in the Gambia?
Gambia’s new president has stated that maternal and child health will be his first priority and experts are hoping for a new focus on health in the country. Read more.
West African countries focus on post-Ebola recovery plans
It has been more than 6 months since the last diagnosis of Ebola in Guinea, Sierra Leone or Liberia. The three west African countries suffered nearly all of the more than 28,600 diagnosed cases and 11,300 deaths during the outbreak that began in December 2013 in a Guinean village. Although the outbreak has ended, the […]
NIH project focuses on integration of HIV and NCD care
For millions of patients, HIV has been transformed into a highly treatable, chronic condition thanks to the development and distribution of increasingly sophisticated combination therapies. These advances have come with another unanticipated outcome, though. Researchers and health workers now worry they may lose patients they have saved from AIDS-related illnesses to non-communicable diseases, including cardiovascular […]
Frontline: Helping women deliver in South Sudan
An interview with Claire Reading, a British midwife who is on her second mission with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), serving as a midwife supervisor at a primary care health clinic in the remote South Sudanese town, Bentiu. Read more.
Anne Deborah Atai-Omoruto
Ugandan expert in family medicine who helped coordinate Liberia’s Ebola response. She was born in Kumi, Uganda, on Nov 22, 1956, and died from pancreatic cancer in Kampala, Uganda, on May 5, 2016, aged 59 years. Read more.
WHO investigates mysterious outbreak in South Sudan
A team from the World Health Organization has arrived in South Sudan to investigate a hemorrhagic fever outbreak in the north of the country, the cause of which remains unknown. Read more.
Yellow fever continues to spread in Angola
Although an emergency meeting of health experts last month stopped short of calling the yellow fever outbreak in Angola a global public health emergency, humanitarian groups on the ground warn the epidemic is still far from over. Even as the number of newly reported cases declines, the disease continues to spread. If it reaches areas […]
Gabon hopes new plan will plug healthcare gaps
The government of Gabon has launched a new program to improve healthcare services in the country, starting with those for maternal and child health. Read more.
Experts recognize zoonotic TB
In mid-April, public health, veterinary and food security experts gathered for the first time to draft a list of priority interventions to better understand and control zoonotic tuberculosis. The 10-point program begins with improved surveillance and new diagnostic tools, but also calls for efforts to increase global awareness. Read more.