Even three decades later, Dr. Lorna Tumwebaze still remembers the fear she felt after encountering her first patient living with HIV at a hospital in her native Uganda. She had…
This week, Dana Hovig director of Integrated Delivery will be among the thousands of leaders and global health experts gathering in Kazakhstan to reaffirm their commitment to the Alma-Ata Declaration.…
New IHME maps are powered by an array of seemingly unrelated data sets: home health surveys, weather reports, agricultural statistics and more. They were calculated together using “model-based statistics,” a…
2018 marks the final year of the African Youth Decade. If the vision and mission of the African Union are to be realized, Africa needs deliberate efforts to accelerate social…
“Trailblazer” comes to mind when describing Moinina David Sengeh. This May, President Julius Maada Bio appointed Sengeh as Sierra Leone’s first-ever Chief Innovation Officer, at the age of 31. The…
Learn about the fascinating strategies researchers are using to think like mosquitoes and work towards eradicating malaria. Dive into this intriguing article to find out more.
On July 24, the World Health Organization declared that an Ebola outbreak in the northwest region of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) was over. Just a week later, however,…
There is still much unknown about the causes of childhood mortality. That is the focus of Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance (CHAMPS), a project that digs deeper than verbal…
Ndidi Nwuneli is determined to tackle the challenge of hidden hunger. The first step, she says, is to dispel the myth that Africans can’t help themselves. And the next step…
