As the daily number of new COVID-19 infections appears to be falling in parts of the world, some fear the epicentre of the virus could move to the African continent....
February 5th, 2020
The likelihood of a coronavirus outbreak in Africa was “very, very high”, the World Health Organisation warns, as cases of the respiratory illness soar past the...
December 11th, 2019
It is "patently false" that SA cannot afford the reforms contemplated in the NHI Bill, writes Robert Yates, head of the Centre of Global Health Security, in the UK, in...
The European Medicines Agency, one of the biggest EU regulators and one of the first casualties of Brexit, has closed its doors in the UK for the last time with the loss...Weekly Roundup
The most surprising thing about the fact that Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) hospitals detain patients who fail to pay their bills is that it's no secret:...
January 17th, 2018Hospitals in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia are detaining hundreds of thousands of people against their will every year – many of them mothers and their new-born babies...
