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Covid-19

Home›Category: "Covid-19"

Exploring the impact of coronavirus (COVID-19) in Africa on health, the economy, politics, social issues, culture and more. (This section includes articles from both the main site and the Debating Ideas sub-section.)

  • A nurse tests for Covid-19 during a government testing drive in Mayfair, Johannesburg, South Africa. Credit: IMF Photo/James Oatway
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    Pandemic policies in South Africa: A model of neocolonial state capture

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    For persons with disabilities, it takes a “special initiative” to get vaccines

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    March 3, 2022
    Seeing that getting access to COVID-19 vaccines was such a tall order, one polio survivor decided to do something about it.  Sitting in his ...
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    Now is the time to prepare for the next Covid-19 wave

    By Liya Temeselew Mamo & Adam Bradshaw
    February 28, 2022
    The next wave could be faster and deadlier than Omicron. This is the perfect window for African countries to get ready. On 10 January ...
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    Covid-19 Response in Sudan: The Pandemic vs. the Politics

    By Reem Gaafar, Maysoon Dahab and Rahaf Abukoura
    January 28, 2022
    Covid-19 Response in Sudan: The Pandemic vs. the Politics
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    WHO Decides Africa’s Health? Learning from the Covid-19 Disaster

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    January 14, 2022
    The Corporate Colonization of Global Health
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    Medical Colonialism: Pandemic Impacts and Vaccine Delivery

    By Toby Green
    December 17, 2021
    Inequality, Healthcare and Vaccine Access in Africa
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  • Covid-19SocietySouth Africa

    Archiving micro-kindnesses and everyday heroism in South Africa

    By Jess Auerbach
    December 10, 2021
    2021 has been a hard year in South Africa and everyday people have taken strain. But it’s easy to forget that, amidst the multitude ...
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  • COVID-19Covid-19Debating Ideas

    Covid Numbers in African Countries

    By Morten Jerven
    December 9, 2021
    Covid's Poor Numbers
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  • ClimateCovid-19CultureTop story

    From untold LGBT+ stories to water everywhere: photos from East Africa

    By Uganda Press Photo
    December 3, 2021
    Last year, a deathly virus stopped the world in its tracks. Things may be moving a little (cautiously) now, but the pandemic is still ...
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  • The Mauritian government has repeatedly downplayed the Covid situation, while doctors and patients describe a healthcare system in disarray. Credit: Yann Gar.
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    Mauritius insists Covid is under control. Hospitals tell a different story

    By Ariel Saramandi
    November 30, 2021
    Is the government hugely undercounting and understating its Covid surge? Officially, Mauritius has recorded 21,325 positive cases and 457 deaths from Covid-19, as of ...
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