Africa tag - The Hippocratic Post

September 14, 2023

Sub-Saharan Africa: Pioneering programme to bring multiple-disease detection tech

A pioneering programme which is bringing affordable, reliable and portable diagnostics for multiple diseases to sub-Saharan Africa is set to be presented at an event...

August 12, 2022

Mathematical modelling fighting malaria

Mathematical modelling to fight malaria: Researchers have created a mathematical model to predict genetic resistance to antimalarial drugs in Africa to manage one of the...

October 7, 2021

WHO recommends malaria vaccine for children at risk

WHO recommends ground breaking malaria vaccine for children at risk. Historic RTS,S/AS01 recommendation can reinvigorate the fight against malaria. The World Health Organization (WHO) is recommending...

August 5, 2021

Gene drive technology: Malarial mosquitoes completely controlled in experiments

Researchers have shown 'gene drive' technology, which spreads a genetic modification blocking female reproduction, works in natural-like settings. The team, led by researchers from Imperial...

July 16, 2021

Deaths in Africa surge from Covid-19

Deaths in Africa surge more than 40% over previous week: Africa has recorded a 43% week-on-week rise in COVID-19 deaths, as hospital admissions increase rapidly...

July 5, 2021

Rife COVID-19 variants fuel Africa’s surging wave

As COVID-19 case numbers in Africa climb faster than all earlier peaks, new and faster spreading variants are fuelling the continent’s surging third wave. Cases...

February 3, 2021

New COVID-19 variants fuelling Africa’s second wave

COVID-19 cases and deaths are surging in Africa as new, more contagious variants of the virus spread to additional countries. Over 175 000 new COVID-19...

December 21, 2020

My midwifery trip to Africa

My midwifery trip to Africa: elephants, lions and delivering six babies: Trip to Tanzania was privilege, says midwifery graduate Aneeqa Hussain has worked hard to...

October 11, 2020

Major food-security investigation in aid to Africa

Queen's University Belfast scientists support major food-security investigation in aid to Africa. Scientists at Queen's University Belfast helped identify the cause of a crisis –...

August 17, 2020

Covid-19 ventilator in Rwanda

A ventilator developed by space scientists at the University of Aberdeen is to be used in the fight against Covid-19 in, Rwanda, Africa. The University...