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For the Community, By the Community COVID-19, Design and Handwashing Infrastructure in Nigeria

Nifemi Marcus-Bello and Mambidzeni Madzivire·January 25, 2021

COVID-19 is the latest instance of a widespread disease outbreak that has exposed the inadequate investment in basic but potentially impactful public health infrastructure, across the world. Read more. Read More...

December 20/January 21 Special Focus: COVID-19 vol5-no1

Two Windows COVID-19 and the World Bank’s Pandemic Emergency Financing Facility

Gbolahan Badmus·November 23, 2020

The Ebola Crisis motivated the World Bank to launch the Pandemic Emergency Financing Facility in 2016. But how effective has the PEF been in dealing with COVID-19? Read more. Read More...

October/November 2020 Special Focus: COVID-19 vol5-no1

This photo is for our post on Ebola, COVID-19 and other unprofitable diseases.

Unprofitable Diseases Ebola, COVID-19 and the Return of Industrial Policy in Africa?

Francisco Perez·November 17, 2020

Like Ebola, COVID-19 demonstrates the urgent need for domestic pharmaceutical industries in African nations. Read more. Read More...

October/November 2020 Special Focus: COVID-19 vol5-no1

This photo is for our essay on Southern Africa's Persistent Dilemma

Southern Africa’s Persistent Dilemma Coronavirus and the Lost Legacy of the AIDS Epidemic

Liam James Kingsley·November 2, 2020

While SARS-CoV-2 and HIV are different pathogens, comparing the viruses themselves, as well as how southern Africa has responded to them, can help us better understand the region’s current climate and provide insight into whether coronavirus and its aftermath will spur a crisis on a scale comparable to the United States. Read more. Read More...

Angola October/November 2020 South Africa Special Focus: COVID-19 vol5-no1 Zimbabwe

This photo is for our essay on A monstrous Overlap

A Monstrous Overlap COVID-19 and the New Climate Change Imperative

Oluwaseun Oguntuase·October 16, 2020

The preparedness of African countries to combat public health crises like the COVID-19 pandemic is debatable, it is obvious that they currently lack the capacity to transition to a low-carbon, climate-resilient economy. Read more. Read More...

October/November 2020 Special Focus: COVID-19 vol5-no1

(Purse) Strings Attached From Dependency to Decolonization in Global Health

Paula Akugizibwe·August 14, 2020

COVID-19 is reminding us that global health has long operated a model in which Africans are treated as subjects of a quasi-philanthropic complex that, in turn, feeds one of the largest industries in the world. Read More...

August/September 2020 Special Focus: COVID-19 vol5-no1

‘Where is God in All of This?’ COVID-19 and the Palliative Force of Religion

Abdulbasit Kassim·June 19, 2020

Why are end-time conspiracy theories attributing the spread of COVID-19 to the 5G network and a proposed global world order gaining momentum? Read more. Read More...

June/July 2020 Special Focus: COVID-19 vol5-no1