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At the peak of the Ebola crisis, the government in Sierra Leone implemented a national lockdown. One man used this time to upskill himself.

For six months Bankolay Turay and his sweetheart could only communicate via phone and text as the the Ebola crisis swept across West Africa.

​Nearly 36 000 young Mozambicans have signed up for SMS-based health counselling but will the new technology curb HIV infections?

Rwanda has shown that improved nutrition lifts individuals, families, communities and economies.

The disease kills more than a million people a year but the world's response to it is totally inadequate.

Economic exploitation in the developing world has resulted in under-resourced and weak health systems that could not contain the spread of viruses.

With the help of new technologies, global health organisations aim to eliminate malaria in Africa in the next 15 years.

Success hinges on a number of key factors, ranging from government buy-in to harnessing the support of traditional leaders and civil society.

Vaccines take centre stage in times of crisis but outside of public health emergencies they do not always get the attention they deserve.

The Ebola outbreak on the continent showed how countries with poor health systems are unfit to fight epidemics.

Doctors Without Borders has stressed the critical importance of adequate investment into the prevention of diseases such as Ebola and cholera.

Chinese and African health ministers have adopted a declaration to increase access to facilities, medication, health workers and training in Africa.

The disease is outfoxing prevention efforts, thanks in part to vaccination myths.

Twenty years after the genocide, Rwanda’s health system is showing drastic improvements.

Personal accounts from Liberia and Sierra Leone bring home the devastation wrought by the virus.

Restrictions hit the movement of a million or more Sierra Leone citizens living in five districts worst affected by the disease.