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Road safety officers stand, as traffic is blocked up on a road, in Lokoja, Nigeria, on October 13, 2022.

Shifting the Narrative on Global Road Safety

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A study examines the role journalism can play in preventing traffic collisions in five Anglophone African countries

Scientific officer Anathi Nkayi works in the research lab at the University of Cape Town's Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, in Cape Town, South Africa February 17, 2025.

America First in Global Health: How Africa Should Respond

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A new U.S. strategy reframes health assistance from a global public good to a strategic asset for national advantage

The New America First Global Health Strategy: Four Observations

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What the strategy means for supply chain reforms, transnational threats, and congressional oversight on global health spending

U.S. President Donald Trump delivers an address to the nation alongside U.S. Vice President JD Vance, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, in Washington DC, on June 21, 2025.

Singapore to Africa: AI Diagnostics for a Healthier Future

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Singapore's strengths can support Africa's push for faster, more equitable, and ultimately sovereign health systems

Cancer patients sit in a chemotherapy while receiving treatment at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, in Accra, Ghana, on April 24, 2012.

The Ethics of AI-Driven Health Projects in Africa

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AI's success should be measured by how it respects dignity, protects privacy, and solves the problems people face

A medical laboratory technician at the Wits Antiviral Gene Therapy Research Unit poses for a portrait, in the research lab at the Wits University Faculty of Health Sciences, in Johannesburg, South Africa, on February 14, 2025.

PEPFAR's Transition Breeds New Opportunities for HIV Care

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Three principles could guide the funding shifts between HIV programs and partner countries to reduce donor dependency

Visualization for HIV/AIDS Resources for LMICs

Africa's Internal Migration Crisis

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Migrants in several African countries face a new, worrying social discriminatory phenomenon called medical xenophobia

Florence Mushimye poses for a portrait in a classroom where they are taking refuge after being asked to leave Kalenga village by the M23 rebels, in Sake, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, on March 13, 2025.

Somaliland's Khat Conundrum

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The drug has cultural and economic heft, but its rising use could contribute to youth unemployment and mental illness

A man chews khat, in Mogadishu, Somalia, on August 10, 2014.

Africa's Tuberculosis Funding Crisis: Moving Beyond External Saviors

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Recent foreign aid cuts have exposed the need for domestic responses to maintain progress against the fatal disease

Africa's Tuberculosis Funding Crisis: Moving Beyond External Saviors

The Neglected Crisis in Safe Blood Access

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Amid declining global aid, access to safe blood risks falling through the cracks. Promising new initiatives offer hope

The Neglected Crisis in Safe Blood Access

Mpox Surge in Sierra Leone: A Stress Test for National Readiness

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Epidemics have a habit of revealing whether the last crisis was truly instructive or merely traumatic

Mpox Surge in Sierra Leone: A Stress Test for National Readiness

Financing Health Innovation in Africa

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Zimbabwe's finance minister explains how Africa can grow health investments amid high public debt and less foreign aid

Financing Health Innovation in Africa