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Lagos/Scidev.Net — Mass rollout of malaria vaccines is beginning to change the landscape of disease control in Africa. But success will depend less on availability and more on how well they are delivered, say disease experts. After a decades-long search for an effective malaria vaccine, two malaria vaccines recommended by the World Health Organization–RTS,S/AS01 and…
There is a particular cruelty in what is happening to Nigerians and other African migrants in South Africa right now. These are people who crossed borders within the same continent, many of them fleeing hardship, seeking opportunity, building lives with whatever they had. And in the country that the world once held up as the…
Accra — dozen ministers of health and finance, alongside representatives of development partners, the private sector, civil society, regional institutions and youth leaders from Western and Central Africa concluded a one-day meeting in Accra on May 4th to advance the health, nutrition and population agenda and deliver better access to quality health care for communities…
Cruises are sold as floating holidays, but they are also useful for understanding public health. Cruise ships are carefully designed places where many people live, eat, relax and move through the same shared spaces for days at a time. They show how easily illness can spread when people are packed into a single interconnected environment….
Across Africa and beyond, education systems are shifting to curricula designed to build critical thinking and problem-solving skills. Competency-based curricula put learners at the centre. They are meant to prepare students for a rapidly changing world, where success depends on the ability to adapt, think critically and solve complex problems. Unlike traditional curricula, which often…
French senators are preparing to debate a law that will allow the remains of six Kali’na indigenous people brought to Paris to feature in a human zoo to be sent back to French Guiana, after more than 130 years in the vaults of a museum in Paris. Pékapé, Counai, Emo-Marita, Mibipi, Makéré and Miacopo have…
An outbreak of deadly hantavirus aboard a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean has triggered an international public health response. The UN World Health Organization (WHO) is coordinating evacuations and risk assessments following the death of three people and multiple suspected infections. One patient remains in intensive care in South Africa. To date, one case…
In Femi Kayode’s thriller Lightseekers (2021) the protagonist Philip Taiwo investigates the brutal murder of three students in the fictional university town of Okriki in the Niger Delta. Woven into the plot are aspects that shape the everyday life of many universities in Africa’s most populous country: strikes, corruption, underfunding, and political, religious, and ethnic…
The coordinated attacks that shook Mali on 25-27 April 2026 are not an anomaly. They are the culmination of a long, deteriorating security trajectory–one that has steadily eroded state authority, exposed strategic miscalculations, and now threatens to overwhelm national and regional security architectures. At the centre of this crisis lies a troubling reality: Mali is…
Africa can’t outsource its deadliest threats Sovereignty in global health is ultimately about being able to act without hesitation when lives are on the line. That ability does not come from statements or summits; it comes from infrastructure that works when pressure is highest. High-containment laboratories sit quietly in the background until they are needed,…
