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The COVID-19 pandemic has accentuated the existing challenges facing artisanal and small-scale mining in Kenya.

Relying on donor funding means that the funder ultimately determines the health priorities. This is one reason why many programmes in Africa focus on a single disease such as HIV.

Framing the fight against coronavirus as a spiritual war may stem from a shared sense of discomfort about an adversary without discernible conscience; an impersonal demon.

Efforts to improve vaccine uptake must be tailored to the needs and concerns of the individuals and families who make up society.

Healthcare workers bear the extraordinary practical and psychological challenges of working daily with the threat of infection and for many months.

How are tests developed for a specific virus and how does a country get the test kits it needs?

The redirection of resources to COVID-19 has enormous consequences for the provision of healthcare services for other diseases, in particular, HIV programmes.

Scientists have observed that 501Y.V2 has quickly become “dominant” among multiple variants that have been circulating in the South African population.

The loss of livelihoods flowing from the efforts to combat the pandemic highlights the dearth of social protection measures on the continent.

During epidemics, the measures taken to protect populations and to keep health systems afloat leave women and girls vulnerable to violence.