Tunisia

ADF STAFF The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed health systems in many African countries to the breaking point. But there is some good news amid the challenges: The continent has seen a boom in health care technology, including telemedicine,…

ADF STAFF Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, people are increasingly going digital to search for health information, make medical appointments and get test results. Many African governments have responded to a World Health…

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…