While Kenya and South Africa begin to ease to Covid-19 restrictions, including mask wearing  in open spaces, Nigeria is still in national disaster status with no announcement of when restrictions might be lifted. These differing approaches reflect Africa’s general uncertainty and unpredictability on how Covid-19 will evolve going forward. Despite the challenges of the past two years, the world now has...

The South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) in partnership with experts hosted an hour-long virtual webinar titled “Update on Covid-19 Therapies”, moderated by Sibusiso Hlatjwako, PATH’s Country Representative in South Africa.  The webinar took place on 21 February 2022 and was attended by 181 participants including South African and regional public, policy makers, research...

  Sakhile Khaweka is Project Manager at the Aurum Institute, a global health and research organisation. The long queues forming at Covid-19 vaccination sites are bittersweet as we look forward to rebuilding while remembering those we lost before they could get vaccinated. When infections and deaths skyrocketed the initial focus in fighting the disease was...