Ebola: Uganda’s schools were closed for two years during COVID, now they face more closures — something must change: Extended school closures during the pandemic set Ugandan children far behind their peers. BADRU KATUMBA/AFP via Getty Images Children in Uganda missed out on more school because of the COVID pandemic than their peers anywhere else …
Ebola in Uganda: lessons from COVID show that heavy-handed lockdowns may be a bad idea: Economic well-being is crucial to population health GettyImages Since the first case of the current Ebola outbreak in Uganda was confirmed in mid-September, the number of cases has topped 127 across seven districts, including 17 in the capital city Kampala. …
Ebola in Uganda: why women must be central to the response: Women need to be involved at every level of decision-making. Luke Dray/Getty Images “No time for that” was the constant refrain heard by gender and women’s health experts working in the 2014/16 Ebola response. This was an emergency and the main thing was to …
Ebola: what are the symptoms, how does it spread and where did it come from?: Microscopic view of the Ebola virus jaddingt/Shutterstock Uganda health authorities have declared an outbreak of Ebola disease. Ebola outbreaks emerge periodically in several African countries, most notably in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Public health expert Yap Boum, who …
5 steps to stop Ebola spreading in East Africa – a frontline expert advises: Staff from South Sudan's Health Ministry pose with protective suits during a drill for Ebola preparedness. Photo by PATRICK MEINHARDT/AFP via Getty Images The biggest Ebola outbreak in human history happened in West Africa from 2014 to 2015. I was on …
Ebola outbreak in Uganda: the health system has never been better prepared: Medical staff prepare to enter a hospital isolation unit in western Uganda during a suspected Ebola outbreak in 2018. Photo by Sumy Sadurni/AFP via Getty Images An outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus was announced by Uganda’s ministry of health on 21 September …
The Marburg virus: urgent need to contain this close cousin of Ebola: Roger Harris/Science Photo Library In July 2022 Ghana confirmed its first two cases of the deadly Marburg virus, a highly infectious disease in the same family as the virus that causes Ebola. The Conversation Africa’s Wale Fatade and Usifo Omozokpea asked virologist Oyewale …
Leçons tirées de la 10ème épidémie de la maladie à virus Ebola en RDC: la population serait mieux informée qu’on le pense: GettyImages Alexis Huguet/AFP via Getty Images Le 1er août 2018, la 10e épidémie de la Maladie à Virus Ebola (MVE) a été déclarée en République Démocratique du Congo (RDC) dans la Province du …
Lessons from the DRC’s 10th Ebola epidemic: the people may know best: The large public health apparatus assembled to fight Ebola created more problems. Alexis Huguet/AFP via Getty Images The tenth Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) was declared in North Kivu on 1 August 2018. The international response to the …
Papers show what lay behind Condé regime’s Ebola denialism in Guinea: Liberia and Sierra Leone actively sought international aid to combat Ebola in 2014, Guinea downplayed the extent of the deadly disease. EFE-EPA/Ahmed Jallanzo More than 11,300 people died when the Ebola virus ripped through three West African countries – Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia …
Ebola survivors: their health struggles and how best to support them: Rigiatu Kamara (R), 38, who has recovered from the Ebola virus disease poses with her husband Baibai Kamara (L), 40, in Kenema, Sierra Leone, on August 26, 2014. Photo by Mohammed Elshamy/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images West Africa’s Ebola outbreak between 2013 and 2016 was the …
Ebola might be a chronic infection – but here’s why we shouldn’t panic: Ebola is back in Guinea in West Africa, five years after the largest Ebola epidemic ever known ended – but it has not come back the way we expected it to. Eighteen people are reported to have been infected, of which nine …
Why Ebola is back in Guinea and why the response must be different this time: Efforts are underway to curb the outbreak. CELLOU BINANI/AFP via Getty Images New reports of Ebola in Guinea are causing anxiety given the history of the West Africa outbreak of 2014-2016. This was the largest Ebola outbreak reported to date …
Ebola strikes West Africa again: key questions and lessons from the past: Medical staff check each others protective suits. Photo by SUMY SADURNI/AFP via Getty Images News of a new outbreak of Ebola in Guinea is indeed distressing. The last in West Africa occurred between 2014 and 2015 and affected Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. …
South Africa in the news: Ebola Returns to West Africa as Region Battles Covid-19: Health officials in Guinea are rushing to contain the first outbreak of the deadly Ebola disease in the region since 2016, days after authorities detected new cases in the Democratic Republic of Congo …: “South Africa” – BingNews Zuma Could Face …
The coping mechanisms the DRC is putting in place as it faces Ebola, measles and COVID-19: A child receives a vaccine against Ebola from a nurse in Goma on August 7, 2019. AUGUSTIN WAMENYA/AFP via Getty Images Ebola, a viral haemorrhagic fever of humans and other primates, has become endemic in the Democratic Republic of …
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