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Vaccines are not just medicine. They are mirrors. They show us who we are, what we value and whose lives we’re willing to protect.
AFRICAN VACCINATION

Vaccines: The US is endangering children while Africa leads the way

Countries on the continent are not waiting to be saved, they are paving the way with community-led, astute, innovative and independent immunisation programmes

  • Tian Johnson
11 min read
South Africa has had cycles of foot-and-mouth disease in the cattle industry, multiple strains of avian influenza in poultry, and the African swine fever in the pig industry. (Photo by Eric Lafforgue/Art in All of Us/Corbis via Getty Images)
AFRICAN SWINE FLU

Rise in animal diseases a global problem 

South Africa must remain vigilant to prevent outbreaks which are costly to farmers and harm the export market

  • Wandile Sihlobo
3 min read
Peter Tonon prays over the body of his mother Lieselotte Tonon, 85, at a socially-distanced viewing at the Clayton and McGirr Funeral Home on June 09, 2020 in Freehold, New Jersey. (John Moore/Getty Images/AFP)
CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION

US life expectancy saw huge drop in 2020 due to Covid

Overall, Covid-19 was the third-leading cause of death, accounting for 350 000 fatalities, just over a tenth of all registered deaths, said a CDC report.

  • Agence France Presse
2 min read
Volunteers arrive to pick up bodies of people who died of Ebola in the 2014-2015 outbreak.
CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION

Sierra Leoneans: Surviving Ebola – only to face discrimination

Those who survived Ebola are stigmatised, often ostracised by their communities and denied healthcare.

  • Mara Kardas-Nelson
  • Gibrilla Sheriff
5 min read