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A woman takes her Antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) pills during the World Aids Day in Kibera.As today marks 33 years since the beginning of World Aids Day and 40 years since the first case of HIV, it's also one of the greatest days to help put an end to inequality that drives Aids and other pandemics across the world. (Photo by Donwilson Odhiambo / SOPA Images/Sipa USA)No Use Germany.

Africa in Focus

How strengthened political engagement can lead to improved health outcomes in Africa

Jean-Baptiste Nikiema

Tuesday, March 1, 2022

Future Development

Harnessing technology for pandemic preparedness demands system reform

Yolanda Botti-Lodovico

Friday, February 18, 2022

Kenya Medical Research Institute doctors research malaria at the clinical research facility laboratory in the Kenya coastal town of Kilifi, November 23, 2010. Malaria threatens half the people on the planet and kills around 800,000 people a year, many of them too young to have even learned to walk. The death rate has come down in the last decade, but full-scale eradication will cost billions and drag funds away from other equally, or possibly even more urgent health efforts. As governments in poor countries and donors from wealthy ones weigh up where to put their money, experts have begun a quiet but fundamental debate about whether wiping out malaria is realistic or even makes economic sense.Picture taken November 23, 2010. To match Special Report MALARIA/COST REUTERS/Joseph Okanga (KENYA - Tags: BUSINESS HEALTH)

Africa in Focus

What’s next for R&D in health for Africa?

Dr. Christian Happi

Thursday, February 17, 2022

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Workers look for abnormal holes in mosquito netting at the A to Z Textile Mills factory producing insecticide-treated bednets in Arusha, Tanzania, May 10, 2016. REUTERS/Katy Migiro

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African solutions to African health system challenges

Dr. Olusoji Adeyi and Aloysius Uche Ordu

Wednesday, February 16, 2022

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Introducing the Foresight Africa podcast, exploring Africa’s dynamism and strategies to benefit all people in the region

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Tuesday, January 18, 2022

On March 11, 2021 a coalition of healthcare advocacy community organizations gathered outside Pfizer Worldwide Headquarters in Manhattan to call on the Biden administration to push pharmaceutical companies to commit to equitable global gaccine distribution and help end the pandemic everywhere by supporting the waiver of the World Trade Organizations monopoly protections for Big Pharma and the COVID-19 Technology Access Pool and to ensure an equitable vaccine distribution throughout the world. (Photo by Erik McGregor/Sipa USA)No Use Germany.

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Production engineer Dominique Vankerwel works in Afrigen's R&D lab. Afrigen Biologics and Vaccines, a biotechnology company based in Cape Town, South Africa, is developing Africa's first proprietary corona vaccine. This is intended to mimic Moderna's highly effective mRNA preparation and thus reduce Africa's dependence on the pharmaceutical industry. (to dpa "David against Goliath: Africa produces off-patent Corona vaccine")

The future of vaccine manufacturing in Africa

Chidi Victor Nweneka and Tolu Disu

Monday, February 14, 2022

Kigali, Rwanda.- In the photos taken on August 24, 2021, it shows a vaccination center against the coronavirus. The introduction of booster doses in the most developed countries threatens the progress of vaccination against Covid-19 in Africa and global and equitable access to immunization, denounced the World Health Organization (WHO).

Why global vaccine equity is the prescription for a full recovery

Indermit Gill and Michele Ruta

Friday, February 11, 2022

A nurse prepares a dose of the Sinopharm coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine at Wilkins Hospital in Harare, Zimbabwe, March 24, 2021. REUTERS/Philimon Bulawayo

Figure of the week: Vaccine inequity in Africa

Sakinatou Djantchiemo and Tamara White

Friday, February 4, 2022

FILE PHOTO: A nurse demonstrates how to activate a respirator as the hospital prepares for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, at the Karen hospital near Nairobi, Kenya, April 6, 2020. REUTERS/Baz Ratner/File Photo

Strategies for financing Africa’s health sector

Vera Songwe

Thursday, February 3, 2022

In this photo illustration the medical syringe seen with the inscription malaria vaccine displayed on a screen in the background. (Photo by Rafael Henrique / SOPA Images/Sipa USA)No Use Germany.

Paying for the malaria vaccine: Will Africa take responsibility?

Dr. Olusoji Adeyi

Monday, January 31, 2022

A health worker holds an Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine vial in Kibera Slum.Despite the everyday challenges and effects of a change in climate and weather conditions, lack of proper health care systems, lack of jobs opportunities and employments including the poor housing and living conditions, residents of Kibera Slums struggle up and down to make all ends meet as they try to get back to normalcy despite the loses made in businesses a midst the corona Virus pandemic. Most residents have taken advantage of the free covid-19 vaccinations provided by the government around the surrounding villages inside the community. (Photo by Donwilson Odhiambo / SOPA Images/Sipa USA)No Use Germany.

Vaccine inequity: Ensuring Africa is not left out

Michel Sidibé

Monday, January 24, 2022

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Vice President for Equitable Growth, Finance and Institutions - World Bank

Director - Center for Sustainable Development

Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development