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Woman health extension worker takes the temperature of a young girl outside a green door is Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Solidarity, Agility and Continuity: Three Cornerstones of Ethiopia’s COVID-19 Response

by Lia Tadesse Gebremedhin

Resilience of health programs and other essential services today will become the gateway for a better Ethiopia tomorrow

Urbanization
A masked-trader carriers two female-form mannequins as he closes his business ahead of the lockdown resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic in Nairobi, Kenya.

The Africa We Want: Protecting Health and Livelihood

by Evaborhene Aghogho Nelson 

Deepening economic integration to boost intra-African trade requires an equal investment in public health structures

Education in Africa is being disrupted along with everything else—chickens here in a classroom converted into a poultry house because of COVID-19 in the town of Wang'uru, Kenya, on August 28, 2020. Picture shows a large gaggle of chickens inside a classroom, clucking around. One stands atop an overturned bucket. REUTERS/Baz Ratner
Poverty

The Double Threat of COVID-19 in Africa

by Tom Frieden, John Nkengasong

Deaths from health-care disruptions due to COVID-19 are almost certain to outnumber deaths from the coronavirus itself