For a malaria vaccine to have an impact, health promotion is key. Awareness campaigns must address safety concerns and emphasise expected positive impacts.
Covid19
Politics and Society Debunking the myth that Africa responded well to Covid
We should not let governments that failed to even count their dead off the hook
Politics and Society Debt cancellation can alleviate the unending cycle of debt distress and crises in Sub-Saharan Africa
The inability to make timely debt service repayments, due to a myriad of internal and external factors, including COVID-19 and the Russia-Ukraine crisis, have increased concerns about an impending debt crisis in Africa.
Africans rising Biotech collaboration paves way for first African-owned COVID-19 vaccine
A collaboration between two leading biotech companies, the South Africa-based Afrigen and the Belgium-based Univercells will work together to develop a novel regional mRNA vaccine. The companies intend to confront the lack of local cost-effective production and the need for cold or super-cold chains that have hampered vaccination thus far.
Politics and Society Making COVID vaccines in Africa: advances and sustainability issues
Before the COVID pandemic, efforts to address the challenge of limited vaccine production on the continent yielded little success.
Politics and Society Africa faces hard knocks as rich countries take manufacturing back home
Companies are moving their production back to developed countries. This is jeopardising the decades-long progress in global poverty reduction.
Politics and Society COVID: a two-year journey through lockdowns, lives lost and life-saving research
A highlight of this pandemic is how quickly effective vaccines were developed and rolled out.
Politics and Society COVID-19, Two years after
COVID-19’s two year anniversary has been eclipsed by a European war, but the devastating effects of the pandemic are glaring. From strained relationships, loss, painful break-ups to the creation of a new class of nouveaux riche, referred to in Kenya as “COVID-19 billionaires”, the pandemic has had a far-reaching impact. Dauti Kahura reflects.
Politics and Society Cartoon | Not out of the woods
In this week’s cartoon we reflect on the two years since the Coronavirus and COVID-19 were declared a global public health emergency.