Health Health services are increasingly being outsourced to the private sector. Ever since African countries were compelled to accept structural adjustment programs in the 1980s and 90s, governments have been averse to social spending. As the years have progressed, African states have become relentlessly neoliberal in their governance approaches, a phenomenon that has had adverse

Covid-19 Care Centre in New Delhi on India ( İmtiyaz Khan – Anadolu Agency ) Country’s confirmed infections reach 21.49 million as it battles one of the world’s worst outbreaks India set another global record for daily coronavirus cases Friday, registering over 414,000 infections in the past 24 hours. It marked the second consecutive day

Protesters hold placards during a demonstration over shortages of anti-retroviral (ARV) medicines, organized by people living with HIV or AIDS, sex-workers, members of the LGBT community, and their supporters, in the port city of Mombasa, Kenya Thursday, April 22, 2021. Kenyans living with HIV say their lives are in danger due to a shortage of

Photo: Credit Associated Press/ AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine in a fridge at the local vaccine center in Ebersberg near Munich, Germany. The United Arab Emirates has warned it could impose restrictions on people who have not been vaccinated against COVID-19 as the region’s business and tourism hub pushes its immunisation campaign. The country of some 9

File – In this Thursday, April 8, 2021 file photo, the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine sits on a table at a pop up vaccinations site the Albanian Islamic Cultural Center, in the Staten Island borough of New York. The U.S. is recommending a “pause” in administration of the single-dose Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine

A Covid testing sign in South Gloucestershire, where two cases of the Brazilian Covid variant were recently identified. Surge testing is now in progress for the South African variant in south London. Photograph: Ben Birchall/PA By Clea Skopelit Officials are deploying surge testing in parts of south London after detecting dozens of cases of the

Photo: Credit Reuters By Maayan Lubell JERUSALEM (Reuters) – The coronavirus variant discovered in South Africa can “break through” Pfizer/BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine to some extent, a real-world data study in Israel found, though its prevalence in the country is low and the research has not been peer reviewed. The study, released on Saturday, compared almost

Hospital Some of these countries billions and hundreds of millions of dollars from this brain drain of African doctors. The past few days have witnessed protests by some U.K. based Nigerians calling on their president Muhammadu Buhari who is currently receiving medical attention in London, to return home and fix the deplorable healthcare in his

File – In this Tuesday, March 16, 2021, file photo, Tanzania’s President Samia Suluhu Hassan speaks during a tour of the Tanga region of Tanzania. Tanzania’s new president appears to be taking a new, scientific approach to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. President Samia Suluhu Hassan said Tuesday April 6, 2021, she will form a technical

Photo: Credit AFP/Tolga Akmen/ President Uhuru Kenyatta shakes hands with Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson at 10 Downing Street in central London on January 21, 2020, ahead of their meeting. By Aggrey Mutambo Kenya is among four counties that have been added to UK’s red list amid concerns about new Covid-19 variants. Kenya came out