ANATOLE MANZI Almost a year into COVID-19, there’s a general understanding that each of us knows what we need to do to limit the virus’s spread. Public health guidance asks that we socially distance, use personal protective equipment, wash our hands frequently with soap and clean water, get tested, quarantine, and self-isolate when we have …
DANJUMA ADDA There’s a disease that kills a staggering 1.34 million people per year worldwide. It wipes more than two hundred thousand Africans off the face of the planet annually. More than four people die from it every second. It isn’t HIV, nor is it tuberculosis. It’s viral hepatitis. Sadly, people generally don’t know much …
BY Safura Abdool Karim — Within the span of 10 days, regulators in the United Kingdom and the United States granted emergency use authorization for the Covid-19 vaccine made by Pfizer and BioNTech. This vaccine, reported to be 95% effective, is now being rolled out across both countries. And as I write this, the U.S. is poised to approve a second Covid-19 …
BY Adaora Okoli — When I contracted Ebola virus disease in August 2014 while working as a medical doctor in a well-known private hospital in Lagos, Nigeria, I was denied access to a potential cure. For 15 days, I battled for my life in a debilitated isolation ward, not knowing if I would survive. But American aid workers who …
BY Webster Mavhu — This year’s World Aids Day was unique in that 2020 is the milestone year for global targets. We also face the double effect of the dual pandemics of HIV and SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19. Global 90-90-90 targets are that by December 2020, 90% of all people living with HIV will know their …