Infectious diseases

Continent-wide integrated approach critical for 2030 global target.

Une approche intégrée à l'échelle du continent est indispensable pour atteindre l'objectif mondial de 2030.

Stakeholders need to improve the continent’s capacity to respond during to emergencies

Les parties prenantes doivent améliorer la capacité du continent à répondre aux urgences.

Continent’s diverse population genetics could improve global disease prevention efforts

Assessment metrics overlook variations between ethnic cohorts, resulting in poor outcomes for Africans, says Francisca Mutapi

The pandemic’s effects on efforts to thwart other infectious diseases could exceed the direct impact of COVID-19.

Donors pledge more than US$4 billion in renewed bid to cut new malaria cases by 90%.

The use of new datastreams and local knowledge to shed light on social aspects of disease transmission will allow more accurate modelling and prediction of epidemics.

Can these sidelined conditions gain the traction they deserve?

As the COVID-19 pandemic threatens to erode huge gains against much more devastating infections, I look for silver linings.

Climate change makes the challenge of certain tropical ailments even tougher.

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted how structural social inequities fundamentally shape disease dynamics. Here, the authors provide a set of practical and methodological recommendations to address socioeconomic vulnerabilities in epidemic models.