With the recent ratification of the pandemic treaty, our study offers a timely and distinctive contribution to pandemic response literature by analyzing China’s COVID-19 aid in the context of its expanding development assistance portfolio in Africa [22, 23 …

In 2010, Ethel Olomu was enrolled as a scholarship student at the Lagos Business School when she first discovered a lump in her breast. She had never heard about breast cancer before then. After her mother, a retired nurse, helped examine her breast, Olomu …

Nigeria has become the first country in West Africa to perform the UroLift procedure, a breakthrough minimally invasive surgery for men with enlarged prostate that preserves sexual function. The procedure, carried out by Professor Kingsley Ekwueme, …

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Australian mpox case numbers experienced a significant surge in the last three months of 2024, but thankfully, public health records are showing that mpox rates are considerably lower at the tail end of 2025. 600 of the last year’s total of 1,409 recorded …

As bombs rained down on Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, in 2022, Lisa Searle, MD, a general practitioner from Tasmania, Australia, was in the thick of it. She was working and living underground in the city’s metro station, which had become a …

In the space of three months last year, mpox cases in Australia surged from a very low base. More than 600 of 2024's total 1,409 recorded cases were confirmed during July to September, bringing mpox rates in the country to a new high. But this year the …

Section 1 - Salutations & opening *Programme Directors, Advocate Joyce Maluleke, Director-General of the Department of Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities, and Dr Matome Kganakga, Chairperson of the Men’s Parliament; Kgosi Thabo Seatlholo, …

MPOX – Photo: JUN LI via iStockphoto A more serious strain of mpox may be spreading locally in Los Angeles County, a version of the virus with a higher death rate than the one that swept through the LGBTQ community three years ago. Investigators are …

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