COVID-19

ADF STAFF Hoping to get ahead of another wave of COVID-19 infections, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) is adding community-level surveillance to its arsenal of weapons deployed against the pandemic.…

ADF STAFF Last year, Margaret Ilomuanya was unable to find her aunt’s hypertension medicine in Lagos, Nigeria’s largest city, for nearly three months. Her experience was common in Africa, where every country suffered some degree of…

ADF STAFF Health experts are cheering the potential of an antiviral pill after studies show it offers protection against COVID-19 after a patient is infected. American pharmaceutical company Merck Sharp & Dohme (MSD) announced…

ADF STAFF More than 8 million South Africans live with HIV-compromised immune systems, a situation that makes them vulnerable to infection by COVID-19 and — if they become infected — potential sources of new variants as their bodies…

ADF STAFF Facing severe oxygen shortages in late September, Somalia opened its first oxygen plant at a hospital in Mogadishu. The plant is expected to produce 1,000 cylinders of oxygen per day. It was installed at Banadir…

ADF STAFF Dr. Joshua Arthur doesn’t try to silence those spreading myths and misinformation about COVID-19. In fact, he invites them to speak freely so he can counter bad information with proven facts. Arthur, a public health…

ADF STAFF The Welsh and Scottish governments donated millions of dollars’ worth of personal protective equipment (PPE) to several African nations amid predictions of a fourth wave of COVID-19 infections on the continent. In…

ADF STAFF The U.S. government is contributing $5.1 million in assistance for Madagascar’s COVID-19 response. The money will support national and community health care facilities in efforts to reduce illness and death from the virus.…

ADF STAFF As Kenya fights the COVID-19 pandemic, medical oxygen has become crucial to saving lives. Dr. Bernard Olayo hopes to make sure it is available for all who need it. Olayo is the founder of Hewatele, a Kenyan company that…

ADF STAFF As the latest wave of COVID-19 infections subsides across Africa, governments and public health experts are asking what’s next in the continent’s response to the global pandemic. The answer is multifaceted. Here are a few of…