By Craig Moran In a historic development, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, former minister of health of Ethiopia, has been elected the next director general of the World Health Organization. When Tedros succeeds the current director general, Dr. Margaret Chan, on July 1, he…
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The detection of two new polio cases in Nigeria has been a major disappointment for the global health community, derailing hopes that Africa’s most populous country could be officially certified “polio-free” in 2017. As an infectious disease specialist from Nigeria,…
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We may have been caught off guard by the recent outbreak of yellow fever in Angola, but we shouldn’t have been too surprised. Following declining levels of yellow fever immunization in 2013, subsequent efforts resulted in only 77 percent of…
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