South Africa

ADF STAFF Community health worker Mariam Traoré spends her days going door to door in Yirimadio, just outside Bamako, Mali, treating her neighbors for everything from malaria to diarrhea and even providing immunizations. On days when she…

ADF STAFF While most of the world has eased pandemic-related restrictions, China is locking back down as it confronts a new round of COVID-19 infections driven by a subvariant of the omicron strain. That lockdown is a reminder to African…

ADF STAFF Although experts predict a fifth wave of COVID-19 could hit South Africa by late April, the government still says easing lockdown restrictions is the right decision. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa eased COVID-19…

ADF STAFF The COVID-19 pandemic has affected people in ways that are clear and hard to define. Among the more subtle effects are the fear and anxiety felt by people over how the virus will change and how best to protect themselves and…

ADF STAFF As of April 5, more than 251,300 Africans died from COVID-19, according to the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC). But morgue statistics from Zambia’s capital city, Lusaka, showed that nearly…

ADF STAFF To get a picture of COVID-19’s impact on Zambia, epidemiologist Dr. Lawrence Mwananyanda went to the morgue in the capital, Lusaka. There, he tested more than 1,100 bodies over the course of three COVID-19 waves in 2020 and…

ADF STAFF After two years of lockdowns, social distancing, mask-wearing, strained health systems and more than 251,000 coronavirus-related deaths in Africa, health experts are evaluating the continent’s response to the pandemic. When…

ADF STAFF The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has signed a memorandum of understanding with U.S. pharmaceutical company Pfizer that will bring COVID-19 pills to the continent. Pfizer’s Paxlovid pills are…

ADF STAFF Many Africans are closely following the news of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on television or the radio, but they are also feeling its impact somewhere much closer to home: the market. The ripple effect of Russia’s war…

ADF STAFF After weathering four waves of COVID-19 infections, African nations are trying to take the lessons learned and use them to prepare health systems for the future. “As long as we remain vigilant and we act intensively, the…