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At least one in four children in Africa is still not receiving the vaccinations they need.

African leaders step up to the plate to narrow immunisation gaps

Charles Shey Wiysonge -
How to prevent HIV with a pill

Twenty things you need to know about how to prevent HIV...

Mia Malan -
HIV prevention needs to be targeted at women to ensure reduced infection rates.

How stigma can stymie Nigeria’s efforts to extend HIV treatment

Obinna Onwujekwe -
Over-treatment of malaria can lead to an unnecessary waste of antimalarial medication.

Why over-treating malaria in Africa is a problem, and how it...

Eleanor Ochodo -
A nurse treats a young patient's buruli ulcer with a clay poultice.

Buruli ulcer: Africa’s neglected but third most common mycobacterial disease

Lydia Mosi -
There is no vaccine for hand

Explainer: Why children are at risk of hand, foot and mouth...

Kerrigan McCarthy -
Africa needs more emergency care specialists to prevent unnecessary deaths due to a lack of capacity and training.

Why emergency care in Africa needs to become a specialised course

Stevan Bruijns -
Diabetes is on the increase worldwide.

Diet and lack of exercise main reasons for dramatic rise in...

Sundeep Ruder -
The best available data shows that in 2014

Pharma funding for TB research four times less than government funding

Vinayak Bhardwaj -
Volunteers arrive to pick up bodies of people who died of Ebola in the 2014-2015 outbreak.

Ebola and Zika epidemics are driven by pathologies of society, not...

David Sanders -
Want to influence policy? Here’s how to write an op-ed

Want to influence policy? Here’s how to write an op-ed

Mia Malan and Dylan Bush -
The bad news doctor: Why scientists are trying to find better ways to talk to patients.

[LISTEN] TB and diabetes: Are they linked?

Mia Malan and Dylan Bush -
Non-lung TB

[LISTEN] Non-lung TB, the silent killer

Mia Malan and Dylan Bush -
Can drug-resistant TB get cured?

[LISTEN] Can drug-resistant TB get cured?

Mia Malan and Dylan Bush -
A man grabs a girl to bring her back to her family home after she tried to escape when she realised she is to be married against her will

How schooling can save African girls from becoming child brides

Michael Addaney -
Shield: A Tanzanian woman and her child use a mosquito net as a preventative measure against malaria.

Malaria has been beaten back – but children are still dying

Amy Green -
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