South Africa

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 As African governments continue to wrestle with the economic shocks of the COVID-19 pandemic and chart a course to recovery, experts say opportunities abound for new directions, partnerships and policy reforms. If used…

ADF STAFF Hundreds of years ago, innocent women in Europe were burned alive in witchcraft trials. The fuel for those fires came from conspiracy theories. Today, a deadly pandemic continues to spread worldwide, and misinformation on…

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 Nearly 8 million Africans have recovered from a COVID-19 infection, giving them a natural immunity to the virus. But that doesn’t mean they’re permanently protected from future infections. Researchers studying COVID-19 say…

ADF STAFF Even as the COVID-19 pandemic demanded global attention, malaria, tuberculosis (TB) and HIV remained the leading causes of death in Africa. New evidence is emerging to show how the pandemic has prevented the delivery of…

ADF STAFF A new strain of the delta variant of COVID-19 is now spreading in Russia and some European countries, creating the potential for yet another iteration of the coronavirus to make its way to Africa. The “delta plus” variant,…

ADF STAFF Despite the threat of another wave of COVID-19 in the coming months, South African authorities are trying to relax their tight grip on lockdowns and lockdown enforcement. Health officials say that a number of factors are…

ADF STAFF As some African countries emerge from the most recent round of COVID-19 infections, the continent’s public health leaders are preparing for the next wave, expected to arrive with the end-of-year holidays. “This decline is…

ADF STAFF Wilson Lang’at owns a 2.5-hectare farm in the village of Koiyet, which lies in Kenya’s verdant southern Rift Valley. For years, his primary source of income was trading cows while he grew maize as a smaller side business.…