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ADF STAFF Africa’s public health leaders are expanding their continentwide effort to test people for COVID-19 exposure to track the movement and evolution of the virus. Dr. John Nkengasong, director of the Africa Centres for Disease…

ADF STAFF On March 18, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced a large, international study of four potential COVID-19 treatments. “We have called this study the Solidarity trial,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom…

ADF STAFF African nations will get an economic boost to help them overcome the financial strains created by COVID-19 under a project recently launched by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The IMF announced the creation of a…

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 In video widely circulated in mid-July, a hospital director in Mateur, Tunisia, was seen breaking down in tears as a national shortage of medical oxygen threatened the lives of COVID-19 patients. “People are dying in front…