How can numbers save lives? In three malaria-prone districts in central Mali, regular recording of cases is helping local health officials keep track of infection trends, but more importantly, they can now trigger an emergency response when the infection threshold is crossed and helping to curb potential large outbreaks.
Read moreAs Liberia tackled rising COVID-19 cases in 2022, rapid diagnostic testing of everyone living within 100 metres of newly confirmed cases helped break transmission chains and significantly boosted the uptake of COVID-19 vaccines through reactive vaccination.
Read moreIn late 2022 staff at Tukombo health centre, a stone’s throw away from the shores of Lake Malawi, were stretched to the limit. The small facility in northern Malawi had been repurposed to serve as a cholera treatment centre to care for hundreds of patients as cases surged amid the country’s worst outbreak.
Read moreWhen Baba Ruvheni heard health workers from his village talking about a measles outbreak in the country, he thought twice before getting his grandchild vaccinated.
Read moreAbuja – Four months before her wedding and on the eve of starting a new job, Dada Titilope went in for a routine medical check. It was then that the 36-year-old resident of Ile-Ife Osun State in Southwestern Nigeria disc…
Read moreAccra/Lusaka/Pretoria —Twice a week, a team of scientists from South Africa’s National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) traverses the country’s metropolitan areas, visiting up to 50 wastewater treatment sites t…
Read moreNouakchott – In late August 2022 Mauritania’s health authorities received reports of several cases of miscarriage among camel herds in the southern Boutilimit Valley region. Within less than 24 hours, three emergency tea…
Read moreAbuja, 13 December, 2022 - “I recall growing up in a comfortable home and lacking nothing until my father fell ill in 2010. I was in secondary school when his sickness started. He was a farmer and businessman who s…
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