BY: Adekemi Adeniyan — The mouth is a barometer of social inequities — it reflects the injustices in our society. As George Cuvier, an 18th century naturalist said: “Show me your teeth, and I will tell you who you are”. To me, as a dentist, the mouth is like a microscope that reveals more than …
BY: Ifeanyi Nsofor — I began my global health career as a surveillance officer with Nigeria’s National Programme on Immunization. So of course I’ve been following the vaccine news with a close eye. I was elated when the first COVID-19 vaccine was shown to be effective late last year. Knowing how effective vaccines can be …
BY: Anatole Manzi — Thirty years ago, I attended primary school in Rwanda. My family had no access to health care, and many days I never made it to school. In wrenching pain due to intestinal parasites, I would lay down on the roadside until I could stand again. I cannot count the number of times …
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 …