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A 25-year-old local scientist captured rare footage showing how one of the world’s deadliest viruses could jump from bats to humans.

Celebrities help make causes known to larger audiences and can be effective in obtaining pledges from policymakers. Yet their simplified advocacy messages can lead to ineffective or harmful policies.

There’s no doubt it was time for the United Nations mission in Liberia to end. But there are some gaps in the country’s plan to move on without the men and women in blue helmets.

WHO’s safeguarding failure in the DRC has re-focused attention on the sexual misconduct that surfaces with disgraceful regularity in humanitarian, development, and peacekeeping operations worldwide.

Like the essential medicines list which sets out the drugs each country should have at affordable prices, an essential diagnostics list would detail diagnostic tests for those who need them.

On this continent, a child dies from malaria every two minutes. This is an unacceptable reality for a treatable and preventable disease.

The media is regurgitating an international narrative that may not be fit for localised purpose.

Measures put in place to curb the spread of COVID-19 may worsen the already poor access to quality maternal health services in parts of the continent.

In a pandemic like this one, the priority is to save lives. But without a vaccine, there’s a limit in the tools available to save lives.

Was the Ebola vaccine 100% effective, or 100% lucky? The good money is on a percentage somewhere in between, but in truth, we will never know.