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Florence Mushimye poses for a portrait in a classroom where they are taking refuge after being asked to leave Kalenga village by the M23 rebels, in Sake, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, on March 13, 2025.

Africa’s Internal Migration Crisis

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Migrants in several African countries face a new, worrying social discriminatory phenomenon called medical xenophobia

A man chews khat, in Mogadishu, Somalia, on August 10, 2014.

Somaliland’s Khat Conundrum

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The drug has cultural and economic heft, but its rising use could contribute to youth unemployment and mental illness

Africa's Tuberculosis Funding Crisis: Moving Beyond External Saviors

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Recent foreign aid cuts have exposed the need for domestic responses to maintain progress against the fatal disease

Africa's Tuberculosis Funding Crisis: Moving Beyond External Saviors

The Neglected Crisis in Safe Blood Access

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Amid declining global aid, access to safe blood risks falling through the cracks. Promising new initiatives offer hope

The Neglected Crisis in Safe Blood Access

Mpox Surge in Sierra Leone: A Stress Test for National Readiness

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Epidemics have a habit of revealing whether the last crisis was truly instructive or merely traumatic

Mpox Surge in Sierra Leone: A Stress Test for National Readiness

Financing Health Innovation in Africa

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Zimbabwe's finance minister explains how Africa can grow health investments amid high public debt and less foreign aid

Financing Health Innovation in Africa

Africa's Shift From Aid Dependency

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The future of African health systems will be driven by domestic investment and demand for regionally made drugs

Africa's Shift From Aid Dependency

Life With Less PEPFAR: The First 100 Days in Tanzania and Uganda

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Stories on the ground support and contradict media narratives about what the HIV program has lost

Life With Less PEPFAR: The First 100 Days in Tanzania and Uganda

A Pandemic Treaty Without Teeth Will Leave Africa and the World Exposed

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Without enforcement mechanisms, even the best commitments risk becoming little more than moral aspirations

A Pandemic Treaty Without Teeth Will Leave Africa and the World Exposed

Visualizing Nutrition Deficits After USAID's Overhaul

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A new computer simulation illustrates the impact of alternative funding scenarios for child nutrition programs in LMICs

Visualizing Nutrition Deficits After USAID's Overhaul

Reimagining Sexual and Reproductive Health Without U.S. Involvement

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The Helms Amendment and the Mexico City Policy, also known as the Global Gag Rule, are moot without U.S. aid funding

Reimagining Sexual and Reproductive Health Without U.S. Involvement

Preserving Refugee Health in Uganda

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Amid U.S. funding cuts, Uganda works to protect its rapidly growing refugee population from deadly diseases

Preserving Refugee Health in Uganda