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Insightful analysis of the policies, politics, and power shaping health across Africa. This category features evidence-informed perspectives that interrogate assumptions, surface trade-offs, and propose actionable reforms, helping policymakers, practitioners, and advocates navigate complex health systems and drive more effective, context-aware decisions.

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One Vision, One Future: Why Africa's Health Financing Is a Global Reset

May 27, 2026
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The Bundibugyo Ebola Outbreak Shows Why Preparedness Cannot Wait

May 25, 2026
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Beyond Emergency Response: Strengthening Nigeria’s Health Communication Infrastructure

May 23, 2026
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Drug Shortage at Jere PHC in Kaduna Leaves Patients with Chronic Illnesses Without Medication

May 22, 2026
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Lessons from the 2026 HFN Conference on Innovation, Financing and Universal Health Coverage

May 20, 2026
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Pandemic Preparedness in West Africa: Multiplayer Collaborative Solutions for a Changing Climate

By | November 13, 2024

Oluomachukwu Omeje (Lead Writer) The World Health Organization (WHO) has identified climate change as one of humanity’s most significant health threat, with significant impacts across Africa. Rising temperatures and erratic rainfall patterns are severely having an affect on human health, compounding risks to individuals and communities. Particularly concerning is climate change’s effect on vector-borne diseases; […]

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Mpox Vaccine: Africa’s Wait Continues Two Years After Global Outbreak

By | August 14, 2024

Zubaida Baba Ibrahim (Lead Writer) The African Continent is experiencing a new wave of Mpox (formerly monkeypox virus) cases, driven by a new ‘Clade 1b’ variant, that is spreading quickly and expanding the virus’s reach across the continent, primarily in countries surrounding the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where it was first identified. . Currently, about […]

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Vaccines are a Modern Day Miracle: Gavi’s Role in Sustaining Life-Saving Access

By | June 26, 2024

Vivianne Ihekweazu and Alexander Chiejina (Lead Writers) “Thanks to the power of immunisation, the number of childhood deaths from vaccine preventable diseases has fallen by 70% since 2000” — Dr Sania Nishtar, CEO of Gavi, The Vaccine Alliance at the Global Forum for Vaccine Sovereignty and Innovation The exponential benefits of vaccines cannot be underestimated. As Chris […]

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Top Ten News Items on Health, 1st December 2023

By | December 1, 2023

Medical stakeholders meet to implement WHO’s 2030 rehabilitation agenda. World AIDS Day: Nigeria progressing towards ending AIDS as public health problem-NACA boss. Anambra govt intensifies fight against quack doctors. Child Malnutrition Rises By 160% In Northeastern Nigeria, Says FHI360. 2024 Budget must prioritize education, healthcare – Speaker Abbas. Mpox outbreak in DRC may spread — […]

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Can the ASLM Conference reinvigorate Laboratory Medicine in Nigeria?

By | December 14, 2016

Iruka Okeke is at the University of Ibadan. She writes this week about the progress made in the world of laboratory medicine in the last five years as portrayed in this year’s African Society for Laboratory Medicine Conference, and what Nigeria still needs to do if it will catch up with the rest of the […]

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