COVID-19

ADF STAFF The COVID-19 pandemic drove major changes to Nigeria’s health care system, creating a legacy that will improve the country’s health care generally and help it prepare for future pandemics. Yet there is still room for improvement.…

ADF STAFF Nigeria should make COVID-19 care a routine part of patient management as the country grapples with its fifth wave of the pandemic, according to Dr. Iorhen Akase. Doing so will help reduce the pandemic’s burden to the…

ADF STAFF Young people have been among the hardest hit by the socioeconomic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, suffering education and training disruptions, losing sources of income, and dealing with food insecurity. Of the estimated 1.4…

ADF STAFF New strains of COVID-19 continue to be particularly dangerous for people living with HIV, the World Health Organization reports. As the omicron variant became the predominant strain globally, HIV-positive people did not…

ADF STAFF Depression-related cases have increased by 24% in South Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to financial services provider Discovery Health, which handles claims for 2.7 million people. Similarly, heart attack…

ADF STAFF Like a master hacker, the COVID-19 virus is continually changing its tactics to find the one that will help it slip past human immunity and create new infections. Every infection is a new opportunity for the virus to refine its…

ADF STAFF A strain of COVID-19 circulating in nearly two dozen countries has scientists concerned that it may be the next mutation to spread globally after the BA.5 strain of omicron. The strain, officially known as BA.2.75, has been…

ADF STAFF Madagascar is looking for innovative solutions to improve its stressed health care system. A recent donation from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) provided much-needed modernization. The computer equipment…

ADF STAFF Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, research into treatment has focused largely on addressing the worst-case scenarios of the disease: hospitalization and death. Now, scientists are turning their attention toward drug treatments…

ADF STAFF As COVID-19’s omicron subvariants persistently sicken people around the world, researchers have identified several common symptoms in young and middle-aged adults. After a late November 2021 outbreak in Oslo, Norway,…