HEALTH SOVEREIGNTY Africa can no longer wait for external actors to solve its healthcare challenges 3 min 0 By Olive Shisana
PUBLIC HEALTH OP-ED Epidemic preparedness must address gender inequalities if we want improved health outcomes 4 min 0 By Ibrahima Cheikh Diong and Natasha Kofoworola Quist
UNCARING ECONOMIES OP-ED Africa Care Economy Index evaluates continent’s 54 nations’ commitment to care – and all fail to pass 7 min 0 By Salimah Valiani
THE GATHERING ESSAY Pandemic Preparedness – how governments must gear up for global disease threats 9 min 0 By Precious Matsoso
COVID-19 OP-ED South Africa needs to establish a Pandemic Preparedness Initiative now 12 min 0 By Tim Tucker, Glenda Gray, Ntobeko Ntusi, Koleka Mlisana and Precious Matsoso
360INFO The sixth mass extinction is happening now, and it doesn’t look good for us 5 min 1 By Corey Bradshaw
DYING WITH DIGNITY Covid-19 pandemic reveals the urgent need for well-funded palliative care in Africa 4 min 0 By Emmanuel Luyirika and Ewa Skowronska
WORLD AIDS DAY OP-ED Ring the alarm bells: If South Africa fails to end AIDS by 2030, pandemics will defeat us 4 min 0 By Judi Nwokedi and Knut Seifert
OP-ED Culture and Covid-19: Can socially ‘loose’ SA ‘tighten’ up its response before the third wave? 5 min 0 By Leslie Bank
Maverick Citizen Op-Ed With Covid vaccine deliveries to Accra and Abidjan, the race for equity begins 3 min 0 By Solomon Zewdu
Maverick Citizen Op-Ed Call to action: A people-centred approach to disease prevention in the era of Covid-19 5 min 0 By Yogan Pillay and Tracey Naledi
EXPLOITATION SCANDAL DRC ‘jobs-for-sex’ exposé prompts calls for greater scrutiny of aid workers 3 min 0 By Nellie Peyton for the Thomson Reuters Foundation
MAVERICK CITIZEN More than 50 women accuse aid workers of sexual abuse in DRC Ebola crisis 9 min 0 By Robert Flummerfelt and Nellie Peyton
Bhekisisa Centre for Health Journalism SA must decide whether to buy a Covid drug that costs thousands per person – but takes less than R200 to make 7 min 0 By Joan van Dyk for the Bhekisisa Centre for Health Journalism
Maverick Citizen: Southern Africa Human Rights Roundup 14 Covid-19 and the epidemic of corrupt governments: ‘A heart-wrenching, unscrupulous and filthy feeding frenzy’ 8 min 0 By Arnold Tsunga, Tatenda Mazarura and Mark Heywood
OP-ED The message is clear: As lockdown measures ease, let’s reopen the classrooms 3 min 0 By Mohamed M Fall, Ann Therese Ndong-Jatta and Matshidiso Moeti
COVID-19 'No excuse' for countries that fail in contact tracing, WHO's Tedros says 2 min 0 By Reuters