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• AFRO-NETS Archive, January 1997-- April 2020: African Networks for Health Research and Development (Watertown, Massachusetts)
  The archive of a listserv with news, announcements, contact information, and links to online documents from newsletters on malaria, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, other diseases and health issues facing African populations. "An electronic conference for the 'African Networks for Health Research & Development'...established in 1997 to facilitate exchange of information..."
• AIDS Analysis Africa. (Online) 2004-2010 -- Howard Place, South Africa: Whiteside and van Niftrik Publications, via Health Economics and HIV/AIDS Research Division, University of KwaZulu-Natal; Bellville, South Africa: RedRibbon and Metropolitan AIDS Solutions, 1999-2010.
  This publication, begun in 1999, was a bi-monthly electronic newsletter on HIV/AIDS in Africa.
  
• All Africa.Com: Health and Medicine News Summaries from Africa (AllAfrica Global Media, Washington, DC)
  Current news updates compiled from African newspapers and the Pan African News Agency (PANA) on health issues in Africa.
  --See also: Coronavirus (2020-2021) ; AIDS Headlines.
  Warning: articles older than 30 days are only available with a subscription.
• ARASA--AIDS & Rights Alliance for Southern Africa--Newsletter (Windhoek, Namibia)
  The web site includes recent news and campaign documents. "...established in 2002, ARASA is a regional partnership of non-governmental organisations working together to promote a human rights approach to HIV/AIDS and TB in Southern Africa through capacity building and advocacy."
• AVERT: Global Information and Education on HIV and AIDS (UK)
  • Current and recent news, as well as epidemiological data on HIV and AIDS in Africa and around the world.
    
  • East and Southern Africa
  • Middle East and North Africa
  • West and Central Africa
• Bioline International Publications: Abstracts, Full Texts for Selected Journals, and Subscriptions (Centre Referência Informação Ambiental, Brazil ; Electronic Publishing Trust for Development, UK)
  African medical, crop science, insect science, and/or general science journals from Africa and elsewhere are on offer at this site. There are also links to technical reports and newsletters. This program allows the reader to view abstracts for a number of titles without charge. However, to view online or received full texts, paid registration is required. There are journals from Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda, and South Africa.
• Electronic Networking for Health In Zimbabwe, 1994 (Univ. of Pennsylvania)
  
• Equinet newsletter. (Online) -- Oxford, UK: Equity in Health in Southern Africa; via Fahamu, 2001-
  • Current news and information about organizational activities in the health sector of southern African countries; with online back issues since April 2001.
  • See main website for: Equity in Health in Southern Africa below.
• Ethiopian journal of health development, The. (Online) – Addis Ababa, Ethiopia : Department of Community Health, Addis Ababa University, 1984–
  The current issue and full archive of back issues are online...and open access. "The Ethiopian Journal of Health Development is currently (2017) a joint scholarly publication of the Ethiopian Public Health Association (EPHA) and the School of Public Health (SPH), Addis Ababa University.
• Ethiopian journal of health sciences. (Online) -- Jimma, Ethiopia: Jimma University, 2000-  via AJOL--African Journals Online
  
  This journal was first published in 1990 by the Jimma Institute of Health Sciences. Since July 2007, it is published 3 times annually by Jimma University.
  --See also: Archive of EJHS, 2010-2017, via PubMed Central
  
• International Women's Media Foundation on Africa--Health Issues (Washington, DC)
  • Search IWMF Home Page
• Journalists Against AIDS (JAAIDS) Nigeria (Lagos, Nigeria)
  • "JAAIDS Nigeria is a media-based non-governmental HIV/AIDS advocacy organisation in Nigeria." The website offers news bulletins, special reports, discussion fora, and related links on HIV/AIDS in Nigeria and West Africa.
• Malaria and infectious diseases in Africa = Paludisme et maladies infectieuses en Afrique. (Online), Archive 2000 -- Paris: SmithKline Beecham International Africa, 1997-2000.
  See also: the old site. The most recent issue and links to back issues and past conferences are available. "Malaria ... is the first French/English bilingual publication completely focused on malaria. The primary objective of this publication is to give African malariologists the opportunity to know each other, exchange views, find out who is doing what and to envisage the possibilities for south-south collaboration in research."
• Rezo.Net sur le Sida (Paris, France)
  Un portail des actualités sélectionnées par un automate des médias autour du monde. Voir aussi: Rezo.Net sur l'Afrique.
• SciDevNet on Health in Sub-Saharan Africa (Oxfordshire, UK)
  
• South African health review. (Online) -- Durban, South Africa: Health Systems Trust, 1995-.  --via Sabinet
  
  An annual review of health policy developments in South Africa: the most recent issue and back issues -- all downloadable in HTML or PDF formats; plus order information.
• World Health Organization--Regional Office for Africa: News Releases (Brazzaville, Congo)

***"An inconvenient truth: The real reason why Africa is not getting vaccinated," October 12, 2021.  Bhekisisa Centre for Health Journalism. (Johannesburg)***


• 100Reporters : "Africa's Hidden Victims" (June 2021) (Washington, DC)
  • A three-part series written by Sally Hayden, Maurice Oniang'o, Linus Unah, and Patrick Egwu, offers news analysis of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, police brutality, hunger, and corruption in Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, and Uganda. "Africa’s Hidden Victims was produced and co-published in collaboration with Journalists for Transparency, a project of Transparency International, and co-published with Africa.com."
  • Part I: "Pandemic Prompts Surge in Police Brutality."
  • Part II: "Pandemic Triggers Hunger as Food Aid Falls Prey to Power Politics and Corruption."
  • Part III: "Healthcare Workers Struggle Amid Lack of PPE, Salary Delays, and Disappearing Hardship Pay."
  
  
• Africa GeoPortal: COVID-19 Response, Monitoring Coronavirus in Africa (Esri, Redlands, California)
  
  
• Africa is a Country: COVID-19 (New York)
  
  
• Africa Portal on COVID-19 (South African Institute of International Affairs, Johannesburg, South Africa)
  
  
• African Academy of Sciences: Global Health Security: COVID-19 in Africa (Nairobi, Kenya)
  
  
• African Arguments: "Covid, lockdowns and vaccine: Why Africa shouldn't copy the West," April 27, 2021.
  (Royal Africa Society, London, UK)
  --Updates every day ; see also:
  --"Covid-19 in Africa: Youth at the Fore." April 14, 2021.
  --"Coronavirus in Africa Tracker: How many covid-19 cases and where?" April--October 2020.
  --"Funeral Practices and Cultural Dignity in the Time of Covid." (South Africa) July 31, 2020.
  --"Confirmation of Africa's Historical Rejection in the Wake of Covid-19." June 19, 2020.
  --"Kenya and COVID-19: Pandemic Response Risks Excluding Minority Groups." May 29, 2020.
  -- "Lifeworlds in Crisis-Covid-19 Governmental Restrictions in Senegal and Chad," May 8, 2020.
  All "COVID-19 in Africa" articles
  
  
• African Development Bank on COVID-19 Projects (Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire)
  • COVID-19 Response Facility -- News
    
  • "Covid-19: African countries win the race against time with testing laboratories," June 18, 2021.
    
  • "South Africa: Social safety nets, community spirit help South African mother through COVID-19 crisis," May 5, 2021.
    
  • "Cote d'Ivoire: Vulnerable households and small businesses find relief from government program to ease COVID-19 headaches," April 28, 2021.
    
  • African Economic Conference--Virtual: "Africa Beyond COVID-19." December 8-10, 2020.  Programme and videorecordings.
    
  • "G5 Sahel : la Banque africaine de développement accorde 285 millions de dollars pour la lutte contre la pandémie de Covid-19." le 23 juillet 2020.
    
  • "Africa Investment Forum: Founding Partners unveil Unified COVID-19 Response to support Africa’s private sector." July 20, 2020.
    [15 projects, valued at $3.79 billion]
  • COVID-19 Pandemic Potential Risks for Trade and Trade Finance in Africa, June 23, 2020
  • "African Development Bank Group unveils $10 billion Response Facility to curb COVID-19," April 8, 2020
  • All COVID-19 News
  
  
• African Economic Research Consortium (Nairobi, Kenya)
  "The global pandemic and its implications for the African economies." March 30, 2021. 57 pages in PDF format.
  
  
• African Leadership Centre: COVID-19 Research (Nairobi, Kenya; London, UK)
  
  
• African Population and Health Research Center: COVID-19 Publications -and- Situation Updates (Nairobi, Kenya)


• APNET--African Publishers Network: APNET's Country Report of African Publishers in COVID-19 Period. (April 2020) (Accra, Ghana)
  --See also: APNET
  
  
• African Union--Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention on COVID-19--News (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)
  General information on spread of the pandemic, policy discussions, and medical advisories.
  -- COVID-19 Vaccine Perceptions: A 15 Country Study. (February 2021)
  -- See also: Research and Development Priorities for COVID-19 in Africa. (February 2021) --via African Academy of Sciences (Nairobi, Kenya)
  
  
• Afrobarometer Dispatches on COVID-19 (Institute for Democracy in South Africa, Cape Town; Ghana Centre for Democratic Development, Accra; and Michigan State University, Dept. of Political Science, East Lansing, Michigan)
  
  
• Algeria Press Service on COVID-19 (Algiers)
  
  
• Al Jazeera--English (Doha, Qatar)
  --"Are African nations doing enough to curb COVID-19?" June 20, 2021. "Inside story" video news report
  --"Despite COVID jab roll-out in South Africa, frustrations remain," February 19, 2021
  --"Another new COVID strain found in Nigeria, says Africa CDC," December 24, 2020
  --"'Peak yet to come': Africa hits one million coronavirus cases," August 7, 2020
  --"Traditional healers help doctors reach patients in Sierra Leone," May 20, 2020
  --"Opinion: The problem with predicting coronavirus apocalypse in Africa," May 7, 2020
  --"Healthcare workers across Africa share their coronavirus stories," April 29, 2020.
  
  
• AllAfrica.com news: Coronavirus in Africa, 2020-2021. (Washington, DC)
  Current and recent news from African electronic newspapers. Warning: the searchable archive for articles older than 30 days is only available through subscription.
  
  
• Archive-It on COVID-19 (The Internet Archive, USA)
  • Global Social Responses to Covid-19 Web Archive Collected by the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation.
    --Search by individual country and "Africa"
  • Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Collected by the International Internet Preservation Consortium.
    --Search by individual country and "Africa".
  
  
• The Brookings Institution on COVID-19 in Africa (Washington, DC)
  • "COVID-19's Impact on Conflict," May 13, 2021.
    
  • "Sub-Saharan Africa shows resilience to the effects of COVID-19, according to high-frequency phone surveys." December 11, 2020.
    
  • "Crisis? What crisis? COVID-19 and the unexpected recovery of regional trade in East Africa." September 28, 2020.
    
  • "Learning from the best: Evaluating Africa’s COVID-19 responses," July 8, 2020
  • "COVID-19 and the future of workers in the informal sector in Africa," May 26, 2020.
  • "COVID-19 and Debt Standstill for Africa," April 18, 2020
  • "Africa needs debt relief to fight COVID-19," April 9, 2020
  • "Africa in the news: Impacts of COVID-19 on African economies," April 4, 2020
  • Africa in Focus series (All)
  
  
• Cameroon
  • Cameroun. Ministère de la Santé Publique: Epidémie de Coronavirus (COVID-19), avril-novembre 2020 (Yaoundé)
    --Veuillez voir aussi: Page d'accueil
  • CODESRIA--Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa: Épidémiologie de l’économie et confinement de l’organisation COVID-19. (juillet 2020). Sous la direction de Sabine Moungou Mbena et Viviane Ondoua Biwole. Coédité avec Les Presses Universitaires de Yaoundé.  (Dakar, Senegal)
  • Global Voices -- Search for Cameroon and COVID-19 (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
    
    • "Promoting coronavirus education through indigenous languages [in Cameroon]," May 11, 2020.
  
  
• Cape Verde
  • República de Cabo Verde: Ministro da Saúde e da Segurança Social (Praia, Cape Verde)
    --See especially: COVID-19 Coronavirus, Juntos na Prevenção
  • The World Bank: "First World Bank Support for COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout in Africa." [Cabo Verde] February 11, 2021. (Washington, DC)
  
  
• Forum on China-Africa Cooperation: Extraordinary China-Africa Summit on Solidarity Against COVID-19, June 17-22, 2020 (Beijing, China)
  
  
• CILSS--Comité permanent inter-états de lutte contre la sécheresse au Sahel: COVID-19 (Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso)
  --See also: CILSS Home Page
  
  
• CIPESA--Collaboration on International ICT Policy in East and Southern Africa (Kampala, Uganda)
  • "Tech to the Rescue Against Covid-19: Reflections from West Africa," April 21, 2021.
    
  • "Covid-19: How Civic Techies Are Stepping Up to Aid the Fight in Africa," August 2, 2020
  • "CIPESA Submission to UN Special Rapporteur Spotlights Rights Concerns in Africa’s Covid-19 Response," April 28, 2020 ; "Why Access to Information on Covid-19 is Crucial to Persons with Disabilities in Africa," April 13, 2020
  • "Digital Rights in Africa Amid Combat COVID-19 Pandemic: Interactive Map," March-April 2020
  • "How Technology is Aiding the COVID-19 Fight in Africa," March 27, 2020
  
  
• COMESA--Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Gabarone, Botswana)
  • COVID-19 in COMESA: Situational Update no. 48, September 14, 2021
    -- All Situational Updates since March 26, 2020
  • Measures Put in Place by Member States. February 19, 2021.
  • Financial inclusion and COVID-19 in COMESA region. February 26, 2021.
    
  • Implication of COVID-19 pandemic on debt for Sub-Saharan African countries. December 2020. 13 pages in PDF format
  • Socio-economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from COMESA Region. November 2020. 106 pages in PDF format
  • Macroeconomic Impacts of COVID-19 in Sub-Saharan Africa, June 6, 2020
  • COMESA Home Page
  
  
• Committee to Protect Journalists: "CPJ, 80 media and rights groups urge African heads of state to release jailed journalists," April 6, 2020. (New York)
  
  
• The Conversation Africa: COVID-19 -- News and Commentary (Braamfontein, South Africa)
  
  
• Côte d'Ivoire. Portail officiel du gouvernement: "Actualités sur la Santé, 2008 au présent (Abidjan)
  --See also: Abidjan.net sur l'Epidémie de Coronavirus (Weblogy, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire)
  
  
• Djibouti. Agence Djiboutienne d'Information.
  
  
• ECOWAS--Economic Community of West African States: COVID-19 Dashboard: Statistics from Member States. (West African Health Organization, Abuja, Nigeria)
  
  
• Egypt
  • Egypt Independent: Coronavirus, April 2020 to present. (Cairo, Egypt)
    COVID-19 news from the English language version of Al-Masry al-Youm, a daily independent newspaper in Cairo.
  • The Egyptian Cabinet, Information and Decision Support Center:  Corona Virus (Arabic)
  • Economic Research Forum: "Economic impact of Covid-19 on Egypt's tourism and remittances," April 14, 2020. The Forum. (Cairo)
  • Mada Masr: COVID-19 -and- Coronavirus features (Cairo)
  
  
• Equity in Health in East and Southern Africa (Oxford, UK):
  Using evidence and analysis for an adaptive health system response to COVID-19 in Uganda in 2020.  November 2020
  --"We are subjects, not objects in health": Communities taking action on COVID-19. September 2020
  --COVID-19 in East and Southern Africa: developments in the pandemic, July 2020
  --Plus: Equinet newsletters (current and previous)
  
  
• Ethiopia
  • African Economic Research Consortiium (Nairobi, Kenya): "The Short-run Impact of the COVID-19 Crisis on Poverty in Ethiopia." November 2020. By Feiruz Yimer, Mohammed Alemayehu & Seyoum Taffesse
    
  • Ethiopia. Ministry of Health
  • Ethiopia Insight: "Behind the numbers: How the media covered COVID-19 in an information lockdown," September 24, 2020. (London, UK)
    
  • Ethiopian Economics Association: The Economy-Wide Impact of the COVID-19 in Ethiopia: Policy and Recovery Options." July 27, 2020 ; Assessment of COVID-19 Effects and Response Measures in Ethiopia: Livelihoods and Welfare Implications." July 27, 2020;
    "Economic and Welfare Effects of COVID-19 and Responses in Ethiopia: Initial Insights." April 6, 2020. --via Africa Portal, Johannesburg, South Africa
    
  • Ethiopian Public Health Institute
  • Financial Times : "If Covid-19 is not beaten in Africa, it will return to haunt us all," March 25, 2020. By Abiy Ahmed, Prime Minister of Ethiopia. (London, UK)
  • The World Bank: "8th Ethiopia Economic Update: Ensuring Resilient Recovery from COVID-19." April 27, 2021. (Washington, DC)
    
  
  
• Ghana
  • African Economic Research Consortium (Nairobi, Kenya): "COVID-19 in Ghana: Consequences for Poverty, and Fiscal Implications." November 2020. By Haruna Issahaku & Benjamin Musah Abu.
    
  • Brookings Institution: "How well is Ghana--with one of the best testing capacities--responding to COVID-19?" July 28, 2020. (Washington, DC)
    
  • The Conversation: "Ghana's much praised COVID-19 strategy has gone awry. Here's why." July 26, 2020.  By Nana Kofi Quakyi.
    (Washington, DC)
    
  • Ghana Health Service: COVID-19 : Ghana's Outbreak Response Management Updates (Accra)
    --See also: Ghana. Ministry of Health
  • LitCovid: "One year after first case of COVID-19 in Ghana: epidemiology, challenges and accomplishments. October 12, 2021. (Bethesda, Maryland)
    
  • World Bank Blog--Nasikiliza: "Economic relief through social safety nets during the COVID-19 crisis: the case of Ghana," October 26, 2020.
    By Christabel E. Dadzie and Dhushyanth Raju. (Washington, DC)
  
  
• Global Voices on COVD-19 (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
  
  
• Guineetime.com: Actualités sur la Santé (Conakry, Guinea)
  
  
• Harvard University, Center for African Studies: Briefs and Webinars on COVID-19 in Africa (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
  
  
• Intergovernmental Authority on Development: IGAD COVID-19 Tracker (Djibouti)
  
  
• International Crisis Group--"The Horn" Podcast Series:  "Inside Africa's Coronavirus Response, with Africa CDC Director" ;
  "Fighting the Pandemic in the Horn of Africa" ; "Bracing for the Post-pandemic Storm" ; "Around the Horn: The Political Fallout of the Pandemic" ; "Sizing Up the Threat of Covid-19 in East Africa" ; and, "Flattening the COVID-19 Curve in East Africa." (April-May 2020)
  (Washington, DC, USA; Brussels, Belgium)
  --See also: ICG on Africa
  
  
• International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance: Global Overview of COVID-19: Impact on Elections (Stockholm, Sweden) Since March 2020 to present
  
  
• International Trade Centre, Market Access Map: COVID-19 Temporary Trade Measures (Geneva, Switzerland)
  Temporary trade measures enacted by government authorities in relation to COVID-19 pandemic rapidly spreading across the world.
  
  
• Johns Hopkins University Coronavirus Resource Center -- World Map (Baltimore, Maryland)
  Coronavirus COVID-19 Global Cases.
  
  
• The Journal of African History: "COVID-19 Virtual Special Issue. " April 2020. (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK)
  
  
• Kenya
  • African Economic Research Consortium (Nairobi, Kenya): "Poverty and Distributional Effects of COVID-19 on Households in Kenya." November 2020. By Nancy Nafula ...[et al.]
    
  • CIPESA: The Erosion of Digital Rights in the Fight Against Covid-19 in Kenya," September 22, 2020 (Kampala, Uganda)
  • The Daily Nation: Coronavirus Tracker (2020-2021)  (Nairobi)
  • The Elephant on "Coronavirus" (Nairobi)
    --See also: "Challenges and Opportunities for African Universities in a Post-COVID-19 World," June 7, 2021 ;
    "Some Countries Are More Equal Than Others: Inequality in the Age of COVID." May 15, 2021.
  • Global Voices on Kenya (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
    --"Kenya's chaotic COVID-19 vaccine roll-out exposes rich-poor divide," April 26, 2021.
    --Search for Kenya and COVID-19
  • Kenya. Ministry of Health (Nairobi)
  • Kenyatta University GIS Laboratory: "Coronavirus Outbreak Spread in Kenya" Dashboard (Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya)
  • LitCovid: "COVID-19 impacts on coastal communities in Kenya." September 28, 2021. (Bethesda, Maryland)
    
  • The New Humanitarian: "A Kenyan COVID-19 notebook: The ‘mama mbogas’ and the path to recovery," August 6, 2020. (Geneva, Switzerland)
    --See also: "Coronavirus in the city [Nairobi, Kenya]: A catastrophe confronting the urban poor," April 1, 2020. ; "Five ideas on how to ease the impact of COVID-19 lockdowns in Kenya," April 6, 2020.
  • Scence Magazine: "COVID-19 transmission dynamics underlying epidemic waves in Kenya," October 7, 2021. (Washington, DC)
    
  • TradeMark East Africa: Impact of Covid-19 on Eastern African Trade, Transit, and Borders, Programme Briefs, May-August 2020 (Nairobi, Kenya)
  • Twaweza: "Living with Coronavirus: Kenyan citizen's opinions and experiences of the economic effects of COVID-19." October 2020.
    Sauti za Wananchi special panel; brief 35. (Nairobi, Kenya; Dar es Salaam, Tanzania)
  • The World Bank: "Kenya Economic Update: COVID-19 erodes progress in poverty reduction in Kenya, increases number of poor citizens." November 25, 2020. (Washington, DC)
    
  
  
• Konrad-Adenauer Stiftung, Rule of Law Programme, Sub-Saharan Africa: COVID-19 pandemic and socio-economic rights in selected East and Southern African countries.  -- Cape Town, South Africa: Juta, [November] 2020.
  
  
• The Lancet Global Health: "Difference in mortality among individuals admitted to hospital with COVID-19 during the first and second waves in South Africa." July 9, 2021. (London, UK)
  -- "Challenges of SARS-CoV-2 genomic surveillance in Africa." April 1, 2021
  -- "Ebola and COVID-19 in DR Congo and Guinea," April 1, 2021.
  -- "COVID-19 vaccine trials in Africa." September 4, 2020.
  -- "Comment: COVID-19 testing in Africa: lessons learnt." July 1, 2020.
  -- "Keeping COVID-19 at bay in Africa," April 29, 2020.
  -- "Comment: Limiting the spread of COVID-19 in Africa: one size mitigation strategies do not fit all countries," April 28, 2020.
  -- "Comment: COVID-19 pandemic in West Africa," April 1, 2020.
  --See also: Lancet Voice (Podcast): "COVID-19 and Sub-Saharan Africa." May 25, 2020..
  --Plus: COVID-19 Resource Centre
  
  
• LitCovid (National Center for Biological Information and U.S. National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland, USA)
  "...a curated literature hub for tracking up-to-date scientific information..."
  ***Note: For Africa-related research, see world map and select African countries.
  
  
• London School of Economics and Political Science (London, UK)
  • "Surveillance on the frontline of the COVID-19 response in Sierra Leone," August 26, 2021. Africa at LSE blog.
  • "Governance Implications of Epidemic Disease in Africa: Updating the Agenda for COVID-19." (April 2020) By Alex de Waal.
    Conflict Research Programme, Research Memo.
    
    
• Madagascar
  • The Africa Report: "Madagascar: Spike in COVID casts doubt on miracle remedy," September 2, 2020. (Paris, France)
  • Midi Madagasikara sur le COVID-19 -et- Covid-Organics (Artemisia) (Antananarivo, Madagascar)
  • The World Bank: Madagascar Economic Update: COVID-19 Increases Poverty, a New Reform Momentum is Needed to Build Back Stronger, December 16, 2020. (Washington, DC)
    
  
  
• Malawi
  • BMJ Global Health: "The health policy response to COVID-19 in Malawi," May 18, 2021. (London, UK)
  • Malawi. Ministry of Health: COVID-19 National Information Dashboard (2021)
    
  • Public Heatlh Institute of Malawi
    --See especially: COVID-19 Situation Reports (April-May 2020)
  
  
• Médecins sans frontières: Coronavirus (Paris, France; Johannesburg, South Africa)
  
  • "Maintaining health services for Dadaab refugees [Kenya] while responding to COVID-19," June 19, 2020.
    
  • "Coronavirus au Niger: MSF ouvre un centre de traitement àa Niamey, épicentre de l'epidémie," le 4 juin 2020.
    
  • "Conflict and COVID-19 adds up to a crisis within a crisis in Libya," June 2, 2020.  Photo story
    
  • "Managing people's fear and misinformation amid COVID-19 in DRC," May 6, 2020.
    
  • "Diseases will not wait for COVID-19 in Kenya," May 5, 2020.
    
  • "COVID-10 will worsen access to healthcare in Burkina Faso," April 21, 2020.
    
  • "MSF supports COVID-19 response in Cameroon," April 16, 2020.
    
  • "Borno state [Nigeria]: In the face of COVID19 pandemic, other diseases will not relent," April 3, 2020.
  • "Preparation is key to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic in Côte d'Ivoire," March 27, 2020.
  
  
• Mo Ibrahim Foundation: "COVID-19 in Africa: One Year On, Impact and Prospects." (June 2021). -- London, UK ; Dakar, Senegal. 204 pages in PDF format
  --See also: MIF home page
  
  
• Morocco
  • Challenge: "Évolution du Coronavirus au Maroc: 430 nouveaux cas, 943.652 au total, le 22 octobre 2021 (Casablanca, Morocco)
    --"Maroc: Nouvelle interdiction de déplacement entre les villes," le 26 juillet 2020
    --"Le Roi ordonne une large campagne de dépistage auprès des employés du secteur privé," le 3 juin 2020
  • LitCovid: "Moroccan Digital Health Response to the COVID-19 Crisis." September 7, 2021. (Bethesda, Maryland)
    
  • Policy Center for the New South (Rabat, Morocco) "The Impact of Covid-19 in Morocco: macroeconomic, sectoral, and regional effects." November 2020.
    By Eduardo A. Haddad ...[et al.].
    
  • Royaume du Maroc. Ministère de la Santé
  
  
• Nature Magazine on COVID-19 in Africa (London, UK)
  • "Predictors of COVID-19 epidemics in countries of the World Health Organization African Region," September 3, 2021.
    
  • "Africa is waging a war on COVID anti-vaxers," July 5, 2021.
    
  • "Understanding COVID-19 in Africa," June 24, 2021. Comment by Sofonias K. Tessema & John N. Nkengasong.
    
  • "How COVID spurred Africa to plot a vaccines revolution." April 21, 2021.
    
  • "Experiences of COVID-19 in Africa," April 7, 2021. Nature Human Behaviour.
    
  • "Capturing the complexity of COVID-19 in Sub-Saharan Africa," March 17, 2021.
    
  • "Things must not fall apart: the ripple effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on children in sub-Saharan Africa," September 24, 2020.
  • "Effects of disruption from COVID-19 on antimalarial strategies," August 17, 2020
  • "Scientific networks are helping African countries access coronavirus lab supplies," May 26, 2020.
  • "African nations missing from coronavirus trials," April 3, 2020.
  
  
• The New Humanitarian on Coronavirus (Geneva, Switzerland)
  
  • "Vaccine shortages and surging cases: A COVID-19 Africa snapshot," July 14, 2021.
    
  • "Who’s afraid of COVID-19? Somalia’s battle with the virus," May 5, 2021.
    
  • The Drought Diaries: The COVID-19 Edition. [Kenya, Somalia, Zimbabwe] October 14, 2020.
    
  • "Are warnings of a COVID-19 famine in Africa overblown?" October 14, 2020.
    
  • "Africa's coronavirus safety nets cannot cover all," May 4, 2020.
    
  • "Coronavirus in crisis-hit Burkina Faso," March 30, 2020.
    
  • "When coronavirus came to Tanzania," March 25, 2020.
  
  
• The New School, India-China Institute: Can a Virus Accelerate Change in Africa?" by Carlos Lopes. May 18, 2020. (New York)
  
  
• The New Yorker: "What African Nations are Teaching the West About Fighting the Coronavirus," May 15, 2020. By Jina Moore.
  (New York)
  
  
• Niger
  • Agence Nigérienne de Presse (Niamey)
  • Niger-Inter sur le COVID-19 (Niamey)
  
  
• Nigeria
  • The Brookings Institution: "COVID's impacts on the Nigerian extractive sector," April 16, 2021. (Washington, DC)
    
  • Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine: "Managing COVI-19 outbreak in Nigeria: matters arising," July 20, 2020. (Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Berlin, Germany)
    
  • The Conversation--Africa: "Nigerian academics weigh in on the faults and frustrations of managing COVID-19," July 14, 2021. (Johannesburg, South Africa)
    
  • Dataphyte: COVID19 news (Abuja, Nigeria)
    See especially:
    --"COVID-19 Paradox: Nigerian households suffer food price surges amidst dwindling income," June 28, 2021.
    --"Nigeria's COVID-19 high-risk states in maps and charts." February 24, 2021.
    --Special Report: How inefficiency, lack of transparency flaw CBN’s ₦50bn COVID-19 loan to small businesses." December 30, 2020.
    --"₦35m for Face Mask, ₦15m for Liquid Soap, How 5 Federal MDAs Mismanaged ₦1.69 Billion COVID19 Fund." July 27, 2020.
  • Global Voices --Search for Nigeria COVID-19 (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
  • Nigeria Centre for Disease Control: Coronavirus (COVID-19) (Abuja)
  • Premium Times: "The Coronavirus Pandemic" (Abuja, Nigeria)
    --Special Report: "How Shrinking Facilities, COVID-19 Scare Threaten Children's Education in Abuja Community," May 29, 2021.
  • South African Institute of International Affairs: "Lessons for Macroeconomic Policy from Nigeria Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic," July 11, 2021. (Johannesburg)
    
  • Virological: "New SARS-CoV-2 Genomes from Nigeria Reveals Dominance of Viruses with Spike Protein Mutation (D614G), and Additional Virus Lineages in Circulation." July 22, 2020. (Edinburgh, UK)
    --See also: Redeemer's University : "Nigerian Lab Joins Global Race to Produce Coronavirus Vaccine." April 28, 2020. (Ede, Nigeria)
  • The World Bank (Washington, DC): Nigeria: COVID-19 National Longitudinal Phone Survey 2020, Vol 1. (July 29, 2020);
    Vol. 2 (Ocotber 1, 2020)
  
  
• Pan African Clinical Trials Registry: Map of African Trials (South African Medical Research Council, Tygerberg, South Africa)
  
  
• Pan African Medical Journal: Special Issue on COVID-19 in Africa (May-August 2020). -- Nairobi, Kenya ; Yaounde, Cameroon: PAMJ, 2020.
  
  
• PERC--Partnership for Evidence-Based Response to COVID-19 (Prevent Epidemics, Vital Strategies, New York, USA; Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Paris, France, Sao Paulo, Brazil, Jihan, China)
  "PERC is a public-private partnership that supports evidence-based measures to reduce the impact of COVID-19 on African Union Member States."
  --See: PERC Country reports (April 2020--March 2021)
  --Plus: COVID-19 Vaccine Confidence. (July 9, 2021) Powerpoint.
  
  --See also:   Responding to COVID-19 in Africa: Finding the Balance, Part III. (May 12, 2021) ; Part II. (September 2020) ; Part I. (May 2020) ; Using Data to Find A Balance: Economic Burden of COVID-19 in Africa (December 2020)
  
  
• Policy Center for the New South: "African development issues after Covid-19." (February 2021) By Hinh T. Dinh (Rabat, Morocco)
  
  
• Reporters Without Borders: "The 2020 pandemic has challenged press freedom in Africa." November 27, 2020 ; "Coronavirus Infects Press Freedom in Africa." April 2, 2020.  (Paris, France)
  
  
• SciDevNet News Articles and Podcasts on Africa and COVID-19 (Oxfordshire, UK)
  • "Africa hinges hopes for COVID vaccine equity on US," September 17, 2021.
    
  • "Deadly COVID-19 Delta variant taking hold in Africa," July 13, 2021.
    
  • "Africa 'tech hub' aims to fill COVID-19 vaccine gap," June 30, 2021.
    
  • "Africa has highest COVID-19 death rate of critically ill," May 31, 2021.
    
  • "COVID-19: Africa is grappling with vaccination efforts," May 28, 2021.
    
  • "Science and You: Africa's COVID-19 vaccines." February 17, 2021.
  • "Debunking COVID-19 myths and remedies." February 10, 2021.
  • "'Vaccine hoarding' to delay Africa's COVID-19 recovery." February 5, 2021.
    --See also: Africa Science Focus Podcast: "Rising COVID-19 cases and vaccine doubt." February 3, 2021.
  
  
• Science Magazine on COVID-19 in Africa (Washington, DC)
  • "A landmark trial to test mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 in Africa can’t get the coveted shots," June 7, 2021. By Jon Cohen.
    
  • "Deaths of health workers in Africa highlight vaccine inequity," February 19, 2021. By Kai Kupferschmidt.
    
  • "COVID-19 and cancer in Africa,"January 1, 2021. By Beatrice Wiafe Addai and Wilfred Ngwa.
    
  • "The puzzle of the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa," January 1, 2021. By Justin M. Maeda & John N. Nkengasong.
    
  • "Seroprevalence of anti-SARS-CoV-2 IgC antibodies in Kenyan blood donors," November 11, 2020. By Sophie Uyoga ...[et al.].
    
  • "COVID-19 in Africa: dampening the storm?" August 7, 2020. By Moustapha Mbow ...[et al.].
  • "'A ticking time bomb': Scientists worry about the coronavirus spread in Africa," March 15, 2020. By Linda Nording.
  
  
• Science of the Total Environment: "Prediction of the COVID-19 spread in African countries and implications for prevention and control: A case study in South Africa, Egypt, Algeria, Nigeria, Senegal and Kenya." April 25, 2020. --via ScienceDirect
  
  
• Senegal
  • African Archaeological Review: "Archaeology of Two Pandemics and Teranga Aesthetic," August 25, 2020. By Ibrahima Thiaw.
    --via Springer.
  • African Arguments: "Senegal: Vaccine Access and Covid-19," August 3, 2021. By Prof. Donna A. Patterson. (London, UK)
    
  • African Economic Research Consortium (Nairobi, Kenya): "Poverty Consequences of COVID-19 Epidemic-Induced Lockdowns in Senegal: Extent and Implications from a Household Survey." November 2020. By Abdoulaye Seck.
    
  • AfroBarometer (Cape Town; Accra, Ghana; East Lansing, Michigan): Les Sénégalais approuvent la réponse gouvernementale à la pandémie de COVID-19 mais restent sceptiques vis-à-vis desvaccins." March 5, 2021.
  • Brookings Institution: "Localized communication plans help Senegal control COVID-19," November 10, 2020. By Ben Leo and Catherine Winn. (Washington, DC)
    
  • France 24: "Dr. Amadou Sall : L’Institut Pasteur de Dakar veut faciliter le dépistage du Covid-19 en Afrique," le 28 avril 2020. (Paris)  Video
  • IPAR--Initiative Prospective Agricole et Rurale: Etudes sur les effets de la COVID-19 (Dakar)
  • Le Quotidien: Actualités pour Coronavirus (Dakar)
    
  • Le Soleil: "L'Afrique et le monde face au Covid-19 : point de vue d'un Africain," le 8 avril 2020. Par Macky Sall, le Président de la République du Sénégal. (Dakar)
    --Veuillez voir aussi: Actualités sur COVID-19
  • Sénégal. Ministère de la Santé et de l'Action Sociale: Rapports de situation du nouveau coronavirus ...et les autres activités
  • Université Cheikh Anta Diop (Dakar)
    • Consortium Pour la Recherche Economique et Sociale: Paroles des Experts sur l'Impact du Covid-19, April-July 2020
    • Laboratoire de Recherche sur les Transformations Economiques et Sociales
      -- "Impact de la COVID-19 sur la société sénégalaise." (le 28 mai 2021) Powerpoint
      -- COVID-19 au Sénégal: Évaluation des impacts sur la société, la famille, la culture: Articles de presse, depuis mars 2020 au présent
      -- Veuillez voir aussi: "La famille sénégalaise avant le COVID-19 : vulnérabilités, consommation et échanges commerciaux alimentaires." (le 15 mai 2020) ; et "Groupe thématique 'Impacts Covid-19' Société, famille, culture, psychique." (le 21 mai 2020)
  • Walfnet: Coronavirus (Dakar)
  
  
• South Africa
  • African Arguments: "The Sociology of Ground Zero: The South African Variant and Colonial Prejudice." February 25, 2021. By Leslie Bank. (London, UK)
    
  • African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine: "The effects of coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic on the South African health system: A call to maintain essential health services," July 22, 2020. (Cape Town)
    
  • Bhekisisa Centre for Health Journalism (Johannesburg):
    --An inconvenient truth: The real reason why Africa is not getting vaccinated," October 12, 2021
    --"Biovac will 'fill and finish' Pfizer’s COVID jab. Here’s how tech transfer works," June 30, 2021
    --"Rise of the variants: What you need to know about the Delta variant in SA," June 28, 2021
    --"Here's how phase 2 of SA's COVID-19 vaccine roll-out works." May 17, 2021
    --"Miracles and medicine: How COVID-19 has been changing the traditional remedies game," January 18, 2021
    --"'The virus is adapting to us' New COVID variant spreads 50% faster, no evidence it’s more deadly," Video, January 18, 2021
    --"Will vaccines work against the new COVID variants? Scientists race to find out," January 15, 2021
    --"Cold truth: South Africa won't be able store these COVID vaccines. Here's why," November 13, 2020
    --"This COVID-19 medicine opened a Pandora's box in SA. Find out why." September 3, 2020
    --"Nine Things to Know About Africa's 1st COVID-19 Vaccine Trial," June 24, 2020
    --"South Africa could see 40,000 COVID-19 deaths by November," May 20, 2020.
    
  • Centre for the Study of African Economies: "The labor market and poverty impact of COVID-19 in South Africa." July 2020. (Oxford University, Oxford, UK)
    
  • Clinical Infectious Diseases: "The role of remdesivir in South Africa: preventing COVID-19 deaths through increasing ICU capacity," July 6, 2020. (Arlington, Virginia, USA) --via ResearchGate
    
  • Collaboration on International ICT Policy in East and Southern Africa: "Regulating freedom of association amidst the Covid-19 reponse in South Africa," November 25, 2020. (Kampala, Uganda)
    
  • The Conversation: "South African researchers are looking at medicinal plants for possible COVID-19 treatments," November 23, 2020.
    
  • Emerging Microbes & Infections: "Social distancing : how religion, culture, and burial ceremony undermine the effort to curb COVID-19 in South Africa." April 29, 2020. Vol. 9, no. 1. (Shanghai, China ; via Taylor & Francis)
  • European journal of development research: "How COVID-19 pandemic worsens the economic situation of women in South Africa," August 16, 2021. (Heidelberg, Germany) --via SpringerLink
    
  • Ground Up: "Covid-19 has claimed nearly a quarter of a million lives in South Africa," October 8, 2021 ; "Why is the government in such a muddle over vaccination?" June 17, 2021 ; "South Africa's vaccine rollout needs a boost," May 27, 2021 ; "Covid-19 has hit pregnant women hard," April 7, 2021 ;  "Vaccine rollout: Here is where South Africa stands," December 21, 2020. (Cape Town)
    
  • Journal of public health research: "Systems dynamics approach for modelling South Africa's response to COVID-19: A 'what if' scenario." April 2021. (Cagliari, Italy)
    
  • The Lancet: "What could fair allocation of an efficacious COVID-19 vaccine look like in South Africa?", February 1, 2021. (London, UK)
  • Mail & Guardian on Coronavirus (Johannesburg)
    --See especially: "South Africa gets major investment to treat Covid-19, TB, cancer, and HIV," September 23, 2021 ; "Pfizer backs down over unreasonable terms in South Africa vaccine deal," April 19, 2021
  • Médecins sans frontières in South Africa (Johannesburg)
    --Including: "Western Cape begins to breathe after COVID-19 peak," August 6, 2020
  • National Income Dynamics Study--Coronavirus Rapid Mobile Survey, July 15, 2020. (Cape Town, South Africa)  A monthly survey of 7,000 South Africans.
    
  • National Institute for Communicable Diseases: "COVID-19 Update: Delta Variant in South Africa," June 29, 2021. (Johannesburg, South Africa)
    --See also: COVID-19 Statistics Dashboard
    
  • Nature: "'Our epidemic could exceed 1 million cases': South Africa's top coronavirus adviser," July 24, 2020. (UK)
    
  • Nature Medicine: "Tracking the emergence of new SARS-CoV-2 variants in South Africa," March 15, 2021. (London; New York)
    
  • New Frame: "South Africa’s next Covid-19 frontiers," September 9, 2021 ; "Editorial: Organize or Die," June 28, 2021 ; "KZN overrun by Covid-19 bodies," January 21, 2021 ; "SA is failing to meet the challenge of a second wave," December 15, 2020. (Johannesburg)
    
  • The New Humanitarian: "South Africa's daunting COVID-19 vaccine roll-out." April 28, 2021. (Geneva, Switzerland)
    
  • SA Positive News: "An open letter to President Cyril Ramaphosa: The buying, selling and reading of books is an essential service."April 28, 2020. (Johannesburg) --See also: PEN South Africa
    
  • South African Government: COVID-19 Coronavirus: South African Resource Portal (Pretoria)
  • SAIIA--South African Insttiute of International Affairs (Johannesburg)
    • COVID-19 Focus
    • CoMPRA--COVID-19 Macroeconomic Policy Responses in Africa (Benin, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda)
      • "Comparative Study of Policy Responses to COVID-19 in LICs in Africa." (December 18, 2020)
      • The Macroeconomic Impact of COVID-19 on Africa." (December 18, 2020)
    • "COVID-19's impact on South Africa's relations with Africa." (October 2, 2020)
    • "South Africa's trade policy post COVID-19." (September 21, 2020).
  • South African medical journal --Search "COVID-19" (Cape Town)
    
  • Wits journal of clinical medicine. vol. 2, Special Issue 1, 2020. (Johannesburg)
  • ZAPIRO Cartoons on COVID-19 (ePartners4, Caterham, UK)
    
  
  
• Southern African Development Community: COVID-19 Update (April--July 2020 reports, with some recent data--February 2021) (Gaborone, Botswana)
  --SADC Regional Response to COVID-19 Pandemic, Bulletin no. 14, September 2020.
  
  
• Tanzania
  • The Citizen: "What will it take to effect the Covid-19 precautions with a third wave looming?" June 21, 2021. (Dar es Salaam, Tanzania)
    
  • Collaboration on International ICT Policy in East and Southern Africa: "Tanzania Tramples Digital Rights in Fight Against COVID-19," October 19, 2020. (Kampala, Uganda)
    
  • Global Voices -- Search for Tanzania and COVID-19 (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
    • "In Tanzania, full-throttle COVID-19 denial leaves citizens without access to health information," January 26, 2021.
      
    • "Quarantine debates in Zanzibar conjure memories of colonial racial segregation," May 29, 2020.
    • "Zanzibar relies on strong communities of care to confront COVID-19," April 25, 2020.
  • The Lancet (London, UK): "Tanzania refuses COVID-19 vaccines," February 13-19, 2021 ; "Tanzania's position on the COVID-19 pandemic," April 14, 2021.  -- via ScienceDirect
    
  • SciDevNet news on Tanzania and COVID-19 (Oxfordshire, UK)
    • "Top Tanzania scientist says COVID-19 vaccine experimental." April 14, 2021.
    • "Africa Science Focus" Podcast: "COVID-19: What’s next for Tanzania?" March 24, 2021.
  • The World Bank (Washington, DC)
    • "COVID-19 and the education systems in Tanzania: Brainstorming for a true ed-tech disruption?" (Part II) August 6, 2020
    • "COVID-19 and education systems in Tanzania: Brainstorming for a true ed-tech disruption?" (Part I) July 23, 2020.
  
  
• Tunisia
  • Global Voices: "Tunisians left to themselves to fight COVID-19." May 20, 2021. (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
    
  • République Tunisienne: Portail national de la Santé (2020-2021) -et- Coronavirus (Covid-19), Octobre 2020 (Tunis)
    --Arabic version
  • La Presse sur le COVID-19 (Tunis)
  
  
• United Nations: Africa UN Knowledge Hub for COVID-19 (New York)
  "A one-stop-shop on information and resources."
  
  
• United Nations Development Programme on COVID-19 (New York)
  • Socio-economic impact of COVID-19, Country reports, April-July 2020
    
  • Covid-19 and Human Development: Assessing the Crisis, Envisioning the Recovery (May 2020)
    
  
  
• United Nations Economic Commission for Africa: COVID-19 Response (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)
  • Africa’s progress in achieving sustainable development during the COVID-19 pandemic: implications for development planning. (2021) ECA policy brief.
    
  • Policy Research Paper COVID-19 and African Airlines: Overcoming a Liquidity Crisis. December 2020.
    
  • COVID-19 in African Cities: Impacts, Responses, and Policies. June 16, 2020.
    
  • COVID-19 Lockdown Exit Strategies for Africa. May 7, 2020.
  • COVID-19 in Africa: Protecting Lives and Economies. April 24, 2020.
  
  
• United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization: COVID-19 Educational Disruption and Response (Paris, France)
  
  
• United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees on COVID-19 in Africa (Geneva, Switzerland)
  • Southern Africa, June 1-30, 2021
  • East and Horn of Africa, and the Great Lakes Region, June 1-30, 2021
  • West & Central Africa, December 11, 2020
    
  • Impact of COVID-19 on the protection of displaced and stateless populations: West & Central Africa, April 15, 2020
  • COVID-19 Situation: Global, Regional and Country Updates (All)
    
  
  
• United States Agency for International Development on COVID-19 in Southern Africa (Washington, DC)
  • Power Africa COVID-19 Response (March 2021)
    
  • "The effects of COVID-19 on freedom of expression in select SADC countries." (December 2020)
  • "The impact of COVID-19 on the rights of indigenous peoples in southern Africa." (December 2020)
  • "The impact of COVID-19 on women's customary land rights and livelihoods." (December 2020)
  
  
• West Africa Network for Peacebuilding (Accra, Ghana)
  • "The Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on women: lessons from the Ebola outbreak in West Africa," June 2020.
  • "Pushing the Boundaries of Peacebuilding Amidst a Global Pandemic." (May 12, 2021)  WANEP annual report 2020.
  • Women, Peace and Security Desk: Gender Connect, May 2020.
  • News Quick Updates: Peace and Security Dimensions of Inter-State Movement of Persons Amid COVID-19 In Nigeria. May 2020.
  • WANEP Home Page
    
  
  
• WHO Regional Office for Africa on the Coronavirus (COVID-19) (Brazzaville, Republic of Congo)
  • Coronavirus Disease Situation Reports for Africa Region, March 4, 2020 to present
    --See also: Global Situation Reports, January 21, 2020 to present
  • COVID-19 in the WHO Africa Region Dashboard
  • "COVID-19 genome sequencing laboratory network launches in Africa," September 10, 2020.
    
  • Report on the Strategic Response to COVID-19 in the WHO African Region, February-December 2020 (2021)
    
  • Global research on coronavirus disease (COVID-10)
  • Weekly Bulletin on Outbreaks and Other Emergencies, September 13-19, 2021.
    --See All Weekly Bulletins
  
  
• Wilson Center--Africa Program: "The COVID-19 Pandemic in Africa: Impact, Responses, and Lessons from Ghana, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Rwanda." September 2020. By Osei Baffour Frimpong, Rigobert Minani Bihuzo & Richmond Commodore. (Washington, DC)
  
  
• The World Bank on COVD-19 in Africa (Washington, DC)
  • "World Bank's Response to COVID-19 (Coronavirus) in Africa." April 8, 2021.
    
  • Impact of COVID-19 Crisis on Agriculture: Evidence from Five Sub-Saharan African Countries. January 2021. (Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, and Uganda)
    
  • "World Bank's Response to COVID-19 (Coronavirus) in Africa." October 15, 2020.
    
  • "COVID-19 and Trade in SubSaharan Africa: Impact and Policy Response." June 2020. 
  • "Coordinating Public Health Responses to COVID-19," May 20, 2020. Afronomics Podcast
    
  • "Assessing the Economic Impact of COVID-19 and Policy Responses in Sub-Saharan Africa." (April 2020)
    Africa's Pulse, no. 21, Spring 2020.
    
  • "The World Bank and IMF mobilize partners to fight against COVID-19 in Africa," April 17, 2020.
  • "COVID-19 drives Sub-Saharan Africa towards first recession in 25 years, April 9, 2020.
  • "For Sub-Saharan Africa, Coronavirus crisis calls for policies of greater resilience," April 8, 2020.
  • "In the face of Coronavirus, African countries apply lessons from Ebola response," April 3, 2020.
  • Operational Response to COVID-19 Projects List--By Country
  • The World Bank in Africa

 

• African Union (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)
  • Abuja +12: shaping the future of health in Africa (2013) via UNAIDS; 24 pages in PDF format
• AVERT: Global Information and Education on HIV and AIDS--Africa (UK) --See above
  
• CADRE--Centre for AIDS Development, Research and Evaluation (2017) (Johannesburg, South Africa)
  • "CADRE is committed to fast-tracking appropriate and effective responses to HIV/AIDS through informing policy and developing coherent strategic models for interventions. CADRE works in sub-Saharan Africa with a primary focus on southern Africa." 
    --See especially: Publications
• CAPRISA--Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (Cape Town, South Africa)
  A multi-institutional collaboration involving the University of Kwazulu-Natal, University of Cape Town, National Institute of Communicable Diseases, University of the Western Cape, and Columbia University. See especially:
  -- Newsletters
  -- Publications (abstracts and full-text via institutional subscriptions)
• Center for Strategic & International Studies, Global Health Policy Center (Washington, DC):
  Addressing HIV Risk in Adolescent Girls and Young Women. (April 2015) by Janet Fleischman & Katherine Peck.
  24 pages in PDF format
• Centre for Sexualities, AIDS, and Gender (University of Pretoria, South Africa)
• Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health -- AIDS Research and Treatment Programs in Africa
  (New York)
  • ICAP--International Center for AIDS Care and Treatment Program--Publications

 

• Conferences and Fora on AIDS (and Africa):
  --ICASA 2021--21st International Conference on AIDS and Sexually-Transmitted Infections in Africa, December 6-11, 2021, South Africa
  
  -- ICASA 2019--20th International Conference on AIDS and Sexually-Transmitted Infections in Africa, December 2-7, 2019, Kigali, Rwanda
  -- 21st International AIDS Conference, Durban, South Africa, July 18-22, 2016
  -- International AIDS Society--Conferences, 2006-2015: Presentations and Programmes (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
  -- Global Summit on HIV/AIDS, Traditional Medicine & Indigenous Knowledge--Declaration, School of Medical Sciences, University of Cape Coast, Ghana, March 14-18, 2006 (Center for World Indigenous Studies, Olympia, Washington)
  -- 4th South African AIDS Conference, March 31-April 3, 2009, Durban, South Africa
  -- UN General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS: : "Global Crisis--Global Action", June 25-27, 2001, New York
  
  
  
  
• CODESRIA -- Conseil pour le développement de la recherche en sciences sociales en Afrique = Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa: Experiencing and understanding AIDS in Africa (1998). Edited by Charles Becker et al. 712 pages, downloadable by chapter in PDF format.
  
• Conselho Nacional de Combate ao HIV/SIDA (CNCS) (Maputo, Mozambique)
  "CNCS é uma agência do governo que tem como tarefa coordenar, monitorar, avaliar e angariar financiamentos de toda a acção nacional de combate ao HIV-SIDA conforme preconizado no Plano Estatégico Nacional."
• Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health: Rwanda Zambia HIV Research Group (Atlanta, Georgia)
  See especially: RZHRG Conference Papers and Other Resources
• Family Health International on Family Planning, HIV/AIDS & STDs (Arlington, Virginia)
  • FHI on Family Planning (General)
    
  • FHI on HIV/AIDS (General)
    "The HIVNET International Program is sponsoring projects in eight countries, five in Africa (Senegal, Kenya, Malawi, Uganda, & Zimbabwe), two in Asia (India, Thailand), and one in the Americas (Brazil). Various U.S. universities are subcontracted to implement these studies, with close collaboration of host country universities or research institutions."
• FHI 360--US and Global Reach: News, Project Reports, and Resources. (Durham, North Carolina, USA)
  "FHI 360 is a nonprofit human development organization dedicated to improving lives in lasting ways by advancing integrated, locally driven solutions...In 2011, the teams of experts from Family Health International and Academy for Educational Development came together to create FHI 360." The site includes reports on activities and projects in 25 Sub-Saharan African countries especially in the fields of health, education, communications, social services, and technology.
• Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Reports on Health in Africa:
  -- "HIV/AIDS, Agriculture and Food Security in Mainland and Small Island Countries of Africa" (2002): presented at the 22nd FAO Regional Conference for Africa, Cairo, Egypt, 4-8 February 2002.
  -- FAO Focus: AIDS -- A Threat to Rural Africa (2000-2001)
  -- Effect of HIV/AIDS on Agricultural Production Systems in West Africa, 1996 (FAO-SDD)
  -- Impact of HIV/AIDS on rural households/communities--with special emphasis on Africa, 1997 (FAO/UN-Popin)
• Foreign Policy in Focus: "HIV/AIDS in Africa: time to stop the killing fields," by Chinua Akukwe and Melvin Foote (October 2005) (Interhemispheric Resource Center, Albuquerque and Silver City, New Mexico ; Institute for Policy Studies, Washington, DC)
  See also, the home page of Foreign Policy in Focus.
• Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (See below.).
• International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (New York)
  IAVI has research programs in Rwanda, South Africa, Uganda, and Zambia.
• International Organization for Migration -- HIV/AIDS in Africa (Geneva, Switzerland)
  • IOM Home Page
  • Briefing notes (in PDF format) on HIV and labour migration: Angola, 2005 | Lesotho, 2006
    Malawi, 2006 | Mozambique, 2007 | Swaziland, 2006 | Zambia, 2006 | Zimbabwe, 2006
    
  • "Mobility and HIV/AIDS in southern Africa: a field study in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Mozambique" (September 2003). A joint publication of IOM and CARE International, in partnership with SIDA. 51 pages in PDF format.
  • << Mobilités internationales et VIH/SIDA en Algérie: étude qualitative--approche exploratoire de type ethno-sociologique >> (décembre 2003). Par l'OIM et le Ministère de la Santé, de la Population et de la Réforme Hospitalière du République Algérienne Démocratique et Populaire. 93 pages en format PDF.
• KIT: Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen = Royal Tropical Institute: Health Research in Africa and Elsewhere (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
  • Global Health--All areas of KIT research
  • SRHR and HIV Project in Bangladesh and Kenya
  • Mapping of SRHR and migration actors in Eastern and Southern Africa (2017)
    
  • Search for All Projects
    
  • KIT Home Page
• Réseau africain de recherche sur le Sida: un cadre d'échanges et de collaboration en Afrique (Dakar, Sénégal; via Refer)
  Ce site comprend les renseignements essentiels sur le réseau. On peut aussi accéder à un catalogue des périodiques du centre d'information et de documentation.
  --Voir surtout: The HIV/AIDS Epidemic in Sub-Saharan Africa in a Historical Perspective. Edited by Philippe Denis & Charles Becker. -- Dakar, Sénégal: RARS, 2006. Electronic version of a book jointly published originally by Academia-Bruylant (Louvain-la-Neuve) and Karthala (Paris) in French.  -- via ResearchGate
  
• SAfAIDS: Southern Africa AIDS Information Dissemination Service (Pretoria, South Africa)
  • "Southern Africa AIDS Information Dissemination Service (SAfAIDS) is a subregional non-governmental organisation that was established in 1994. Its main purpose is to help strengthen capacity to address the socio-economic impact of AIDS and to promote HIV prevention in southern Africa. ... SAfAIDS' main role is promoting policy, research, planning and programme development around HIV/AIDS in the southern Africa region. It works with NGOs, PWAs, government bodies, international agencies, research institutes, media organisations, the private sector, labour and others to assist them to explore and implement responses to HIV/AIDS in a development context."
  • Publications
  • Useful links on HIV/AIDS in Africa
• Society for AIDS in Africa Founded in 1989. (Abuja, Nigeria)
  The web site features information about the SAA, related news, and conference information. In partnership with International AIDS Society, based in Geneva, Switzerland.
• South Africa -- HIV/AIDS
  • South Africa. Department of Health: Comprehensive HIV and AIDS Care, Management and Treatment Plan (Pretoria)
  • South African National AIDS Council (Pretoria)
    "...established to oversee and advise government on HIV and AIDS in South Africa."
  • For more information, see AIDS Information for South Africa (via Columbia University Libraries)
  • See also: Treatment Action Campaign below.
• Stop AIDS : Uniting UK voices on the Global Response (London, UK)
  "... the network of UK agencies working since 1986 to secure an effective global response to HIV and AIDS...Re-launched on the 2nd September 2013, our new name brings together our previous identities – the UK Consortium on AIDS and International Development and the Stop AIDS Campaign."
  --See especially: Responding to HIV and AIDS globally
• TAC: Treatment Action Campaign (Nonkqubela, Cape Town, South Africa)
  This website contains information on current awareness and health campaigns, HIV/AIDS news for South African and the region, documents, and related links. "The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) was launched on 10 December 1998, International Human Rights Day. Its main objective is to campaign for greater access to treatment for all South Africans, by raising public awareness and understanding about issues surrounding the availability, affordability and use of HIV treatments."
• Uganda AIDS Commission  (Kampala, Uganda)
  General information about the commission and the center, its programs, research updates, news, and related links. "The Uganda AIDS Commission (UAC) was established by Statute of Parliament in 1992 and placed under the Office of the President to coordinate the multi-sectoral efforts."
• Uganda Virus Research Institute / International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (Entebbe, Uganda)
  "This research is sponsored by the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), working as partners with the Government of the Republic of Uganda since August 2001 to accelerate the development and testing of vaccines to prevent HIV/AIDS."
  ---Publications
  ---News
  --National HIV Drug Resistance Prevention, Monitoring, and Surveillance Activities: National Status Report (August 2018)
  ---See also: Uganda AIDS Commission above
• UNAIDS: Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (Co-sponsored by WHO, UNICEF, UNDP, UNFPA, UNESCO, & The World Bank)
  • UNAIDS Home Page
  • UNAIDS Data 2020. (July 2020) 436 pages in PDF format
  • Global AIDS Update 2020--Seizing the Moment. 384 pages in PDF format
    
  • UNAIDS Data 2019. (December 2019) 476 pages in PDF format
  • Global AIDS Update 2019--Communities at the Centre. 316 pages in PDF format
    
  • Global AIDS Update 2018--Miles to Go. 268 pages in PDF format
  • All Country Reports
    
  • Global AIDS Update 2016
  • 2016 Country Progress Reports -and- Epidemiology -- Subnational Estimates from Survey Data
  • UNAIDS in Eastern and Southern Africa ; West and Central Africa ; and, Middle East and North Africa
  • Getting to zero: HIV in Eastern and Southern Africa (2013) Regional report -- Geneva, Switzerland: UNAIDS, 2013. 116 pages in PDF format
  • 2010 Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic.
  • AIDS epidemic update : November 2009 -- Geneva, Switzerland: UNAIDS, 2009.
    100 pages in PDF format
    
  • UNAIDS on Sub-Saharan Africa, 2008-
    -- Regional Support Team for Eastern and Southern Africa
    -- Middle East and North Africa
  • 2008 Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic.
  • AIDS Epidemic Update : November 2007.
  • 2006 Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic.
  • AIDS epidemic update : December 2005.
  • 2004 Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic.
    
  • AIDS in Africa: Three Scenarios to 2025. (January 2006) -- Geneva, Switzerland: UNAIDS, 2006. PDF format
    
  • Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS: 'Global Crisis -- Global Action", June 27, 2001
    See UN Special Session on AIDS, June 25-27, 2001 above.
  
  
• United Nations Development Programme: HIV, Health and Development Strategy, 2016-2021 (September 2019)
  
  
• United Nations Economic Commission for Africa: Securing our future: report of the Commission on HIV/AIDS and Governance in Africa (2008).
  -- Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: UNECA, c2008. PDF format
  
  
• UNESCO--United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization on HIV/AIDS (Paris, France)
  • UNESCO HIV and Health Education Clearinghouse
    --See especially: Resources on Africa
  • EDUCAIDS--a comprehensive education sector response to HIV/AIDS
    --See especially: Country Snapshots
  • UNESCO Management of Social Transformations--MOST: "VIH/SIDA et entreprise en Afrique: une réponse socio-médicale à l'impact économique? L'exemple de la Côte d'Ivoire." (1997) par Laurent Aventin, Pierre Huard. MOST documents de travail ; no. 19.
    -- Paris, France: MOST Programme, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 1997.
    Voir aussi, la version anglaise.
  • UNESCO Webworld: Media & HIV/AIDS in East and Southern Africa: a resource book. Edited by S.T. Kwame Boafo, in collaboration with Carlos A. Arnaldo. -- Paris: UNESCO, 2000. PDF format
    
• United States Agencies on HIV/AIDS in Africa
  • USAID Global Health on HIV and AIDS
    
  • US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Global HIV & Tuberculosis (Atlanta, Georgia)
    Select country on a map for brief overview of epidemiological situation, related news, and reports.
  • U.S. State Department on The Preisdent's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)
    
    "... the U.S. Government initiative to help save the lives of those suffering from HIV/AIDS around the world."
• University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban: HEARD--Research (South Africa)
  The HEARD was originally established in 1998 to undertake research and teaching concerned with health economics and HIV/AIDS. The Centre has expanded its research mandate to encompass all aspects of health and economic well-being in South Africa and across Africa. The website includes online publications: workshop reports, newsletters, other reports, etc.
• University of Pretoria: Centre for the Study of AIDS (South Africa)
  The website includes downloadable research reports and news from the Centre, UN agencies, and news agencies. "[Established in 1999] the Centre operates ...to plan for, and cope with, the impact that HIV/AIDS is likely to have on the institution and the tertiary sector as a whole."
• VSO: Voluntary Services International -- HIV/AIDS (United Kingdom)
  • "VSO works to support people living with and affected by HIV and AIDS in 16 programmes across Africa, Asia and the Pacific."
  • All VSO projects in Africa: search by country.
• West African Rice Development Association: Systemwide Initiative on HIV/AIDS and Agriculture (SWIHA) (Centre du riz pour l'Afrique, WARDA/ADRAO, Bouaké, Côte d'Ivoire) -- Reports up through 2003.
  
• The World Bank on HIV/AIDS in Africa (Washington, DC)
  
• World Health Organization, Regional Office for Africa: "AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria" Division (Brazzaville, Republic of Congo)

 

• Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab: Evaluation Projects in Africa
  (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts; University of Cape Town, South Africa)
  --Select "Africa" and "Health"
• Africa Regional Sexuality Resource Centre (Lagos, Nigeria)
  "...established in 2003, is part of a Ford Foundation initiative, 'Global Dialogue of Sexual Health and Well Being' aimed at giving visibility, depth and legitimacy to the field of sexuality."
  --See especially: ARSRC Publications -and- ARSRC Resource Library--Documents
• African Development Bank: Africa Health Atlas (Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire)
  "This tool aims to provide a clear picture on the overall accessibility of healthcare services by the general population in each African country. For this purpose, we developed a repository of healthcare facilities in African countries, the essential healthcare services those facilities provide and the prices for specific healthcare services."
• African Human Genome Education Institute (South Africa)
  The website features information and news from the 2004 Cairo Conference on "Genomics & Society: The Future Health of Africa" as well as the 2005 Nairobi Conference and related information. Plus: The Journal of Genomics and African Society. (Online) in PDF format ; and, sample issues of the African scientist. (Online).
• African Medical and Research Foundation (Nairobi, Kenya)
  This site offers news and other information about AMREF programmes (including "Flying Doctor Service") -- with offices in 4 countries: Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, and South Africa. "AMREF is Africa's largest indigenous health charity, and for 44 years in partnership with local communities, governments and donors, has worked to research and alleviate Africa's health problems."  
  --See especially: AMREF research papers
• African Population & Health Research Center, Inc. (Nairobi, Kenya)
  This website includes downloadable publications--newsletter, research reports, working papers, etc. "The Center was established in 1995 as a Population Policy Research Fellowship program of the Population Council, with funding from the Rockefeller Foundation. In 2001, it became an autonomous institution with headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya."
  -- APHRC Publications
• African Union: AU Summit Final Declaration on "Maternal, Infant and Child Health and Development," 19-27 July 2010, Kampala, Uganda (via WHO, The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health, Geneva, Switzerland)
  --See also: NEPAD Policy Brief on Maternal, Infant Health and Development in Africa -- Scaling up Nursing and Midwifery Education, August 2010 (Johannesburg, South Africa)
• Association of Nigerian Physicians in the Americas
  This site offers general information about ANPA, its annual conferences, and related events and activities.
• The Carter Center: Health Programs---Countries (Atlanta, Georgia)
  Includes reports on African countries relating to agriculture (in Ethiopia), guinea worm eradication (West Africa), the fight against river blindness, mental health, etc. See also, The Carter Center Home Page.
• Demographic & Health Surveys (DHS)--By Country and By Survey Type (Macro International, Calverton, MD)
  Search especially under individual countries or the Sub Saharan Africa region.

 

 

• Ebola Virus in West and Central Africa ...and elsewhere, 2014 to present
  • AfricaFocus Bulletin: "Ebola Response Shows Lessons Learned." (June 20, 2018)   By William Minter, Washington, DC.
    
  • African Studies Centre, Leiden University (The Netherlands): Information Portal on the Ebola Outbreak in Africa (2014): information links mostly for Dutch research community and the public
  • Al Jazeera on Ebola, 2019 to present (Doha)
    
  • BBC News on Ebola Virus--updates (2018-2021) (British Broadcasting Corporation, London, UK)
    --See: "Guinea declares Ebola epidemic: first deaths since 2016." (February 14, 2021) ;  "DR Congo Ebola outbreak..." (May 18, 2018)
    
  • Beyond Niamey (USA): "Multilingual extension in Africa: The response to Ebola" ...and related articles (November 2014-May 2016)  Blog
    
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Atlanta, Georgia, USA): Ebola Virus Disease
    --See also: Ebola Radio Health Messages in Local Languages
  • Columbia University, National Center for Disaster Preparedness: Ebola Perspectives (2014) (New York)
    
  • Ebola Response Anthropology Platform (2016) (UK)
    "Anthropologists providing advice on how to engage with crucial socio-cultural and political dimensions of the Ebola outbreak and build locally-appropriate interventions."
  • Evidence Aid: Resources Following the Ebola Outbreak in West Africa, 2014-2020. (Abington, UK)
    • "... a not-for-profit organisation which specialises in collating and summarising the best-available evidence about how to effectively prepare for and respond to disasters and emergencies." The web site includes citations to medical humanitarian research, with frequent updates, and a blog article series.
    • "Ebola in the literature vs. in the field: a summary of two student experiences," August 29, 2019.
    • "Ebola and evidence: five years on," March 29, 2019.
  • Médecins Sans Frontières (Paris, France; Brussels, Belgium):
    -- DRC Ebola Outbreaks, 2018-2021
    --"Democratic Republic of Congo; Ebola update June 2018"
    --"DRC: Ninth Ebola outbreak in 40 years hits urban area," May 17, 2018...and related articles
    -- Urgence Ebola: dossier et les actualités
    -- Épidémie d'Ébola en Afrique de l'Ouest (septembre 2014)
  • The Pulitzer Prize 2015 Winner for Journalism--International Reporting (New York):
    The New York Times Works on Ebola, July-December 2014
  • Réseau Ouest Africain Anthropologie des Epidémies Emergentes (2014-) (via OpenEdition; Paris, France)
    "[Créé en septembre 2014 par des anthropologues et d'autres chercheurs en sciences sociales]...lorsque l’épidémie a touché 5 pays (Guinée, Sierra Léone, Libéria, Nigéria, Sénégal). Ils ont étendu le réseau au Mali, Niger, Ghana, Bénin, Côte d’Ivoire, Cameroun, Burkina Faso et Guinée Bissau pour développer l’analyse des effets sociaux de la lutte contre l’épidémie dans les pays voisins."
  • United Nations on Ebola Crisis (New York, USA)
    • UN Department of Public Information: Global Ebola Response (2014-2015) : news and related links
    • UNECA--United Nations Economic Commission for Africa: Socio-Economic Impacts of Ebola on Africa. (January 2015) -- Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: UNECA, c2015. 101 pages in PDF format
      
    • UNICEF-Liberia (Monrovia): Liberia Ebola Situation Reports, March 2014 to present -and- Ebola Radio Programs (via SoundCloud)
  • United States. Department of Health & Human Services: Ebola Outbreak 2014 Information Resources (Wahsington, DC)
    
  • United States. The White House: The Administrations's Response to Ebola (2014-2015) (Washington, DC)
  • The Washington Post (Washington, DC)
    • Ebola news reports--Current (2020-2021)
    • "The Secret to Curing West Africa from Ebola," by Paul Farmer (Jan. 16, 2015); plus links to related articles on Ebola
    • "Map: The Africa without Ebola," November 3, 2014
  • World Health Organization (Geneva, Switzerland):
    --Ebola Virus Disease--Current (2020-2021)
    --Ebola Fact Sheet (February 12, 2018)
    --Global Alert & Response: Ebola Virus Disease
    --Ebola Response Roadmap Situation Reports, August 2014 to December 2015
    

   

   

• Equity in Health in East and Southern Africa (Equinet - The Network for Equity in Health in Southern Africa; Harare, Zimbabwe)
  • 'In March 1997, a Southern African meeting on Equity in Health was held in Kasane, Botswana. This meeting, hosted by the National Institute of Development Research and Documentation (Botswana) and the Dag Hammarskjold Foundation (Sweden) gathered representatives of government, non government and academic institutions involved in health. The meeting confirmed the regional commitment towards equity in health as a policy goal and an agenda for action.'
  • Equinet newsletter
  • Annotated Bibliography: Literature on Equity in Health in Southern Africa (downloadable in PDF)
  • Equinet publications, 1997-- (downloadable in PDF)
  
  
• Food Security Information Network (Rome, Italy)
  • "FSIN is a technical platform for exchanging expertise and best practices on food security and nutrition analysis...FSIN’s work spans the effort of 16 global and regional partners."
  • 2020 Global Report on Food Crises. -- Rome, Italy: Food Security Information Network, 2020. 236 pages in PDF format
  • Resources on Africa (including maps)
  
  
• The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria -- Country Projects (Geneva, Switzerland)
  The website includes information about grant projects and reports. "[The Fund]...was created to dramatically increase resources to fight three of the world's most devastating diseases, and to direct those resources to areas of greatest need. As a partnership between governments, civil society, the private sector and affected communities..."
  -- See also: World Health Organization below
• Harvard University Center for Population and Development (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
  "[Founded in 1964]...The Center’s research activities are currently focused on three areas. First is the issue of access to medicines in the developing world, which has advanced onto the international policy agenda around anti-AIDS medications. A second area is population policies and reproductive health, with particular attention to the roles of gender and politics. The third area is the neglected health problems of the global poor, such as the impact of road traffic injuries on the poor in developing countries."
  See especially: HCPDS Working Papers, 1990 to present.
  
  
• Health Systems Trust (Durban, South Africa)
  • This website offers current health news, downloadable reports, and links to a wide variety of health information for South Africa and the southern Africa region. "Health Systems Trust is a dynamic independent non-government organisation established in 1992 to support the transformation of the South African health system."
  • South African health review. (Online). -- Durban, South Africa: Health Systems Trust, 1995-
    An annual review of health policy developments in South Africa: the most recent issue and back issues -- all downloadable in HTML or PDF formats; plus order information.
  • District Health Barometer, 2004--
    DHB 2015/16 is the most recent issue. "Funded by the National Department of Health, the DHB tracks, over time, important aspects of health system performance at district level."
  • For HIV/AIDS research, see also: University of Natal--Durban and University of Pretoria below.
  
  
• International Organization for Migration (Geneva, Switzerland)
  • The site features news about IOM activities, statistics, and downloadable reports. "Established in 1951...IOM maintains close working relations with UN bodies and operational agencies. IOM has as partners a wide range of international and non-governmental organizations."
    
  • IOM on migration issues in: East Africa & Horn of Africa | North Africa & Middel East | Southern Africa | West & Central Africa
  • Health Vulnerabilities Study of Mixed Migration Flows from the East and Horn of Africa and the Great Lakes Region to Southern Africa (2013).
    
  • IOM Home Page
  
  
• International Planned Parenthood Federation on Africa (Nairobi, Kenya ; London, UK)
  • Resources
    
  • Revised Maputo Plan of Action, 2016-2030
  • State of the African Woman Report: Key Findings (June 2018) 92 pages in PDF format
    
  
  
• International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) (Washington, DC)
  • "Through its policy analyses, which is of broad relevance to the developing world, IFPRI directly supports developing-country policymakers, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and civil society in their efforts to help the poor."
  • IFPRI Home Page (General)
  • IFPRI Publications -- Search all
    Selected reports on Africa in PDF format, with order information:
    -- East African agriculture and climate change: a comprehensive analysis (2013) Edited by Michael Waithaka ...[et al.] 434 pages in PDF format
    -- "Evaluation of Ethiopia's Food Security Program" (2013) by Guush Berhane ...et al.  EDRI Report; 235 pages in PDF format.
    
    -- "Evaluation of Ethiopia's Food Security Program" (2011) by Guush Berhane ...et al.  Background report ; 255 pages in PDF format.
    
    -- "Managing resources in erratic environments...Ethiopia, Niger, and Burkina Faso," by Nancy McCarthy ...[et al.] (2004). Research report ; 135.
    -- "Human capital, household welfare, and children's schooling in Mozambique," by Sudhanshu Handa ...[et al.] (2004). Research report ; 134.
    -- "Strategies for sustainable land management and poverty reduction in Uganda," by Ephraim Nkonya ...[et al.] (2004). Research report ; 133.
    -- "Rebuilding after war: micro-level determinants of poverty reduction in Mozambique," by Kenneth R. Simler ...[et al.] (2003). Research report ; 132.
    -- "Macroeconomic policy reforms and agriculture...Zimbabwe," by Romeo M. Bautista ...[et al.] (2002). Research report ; 128.
    -- "Market institutions, transaction costs, and social capital in the Ethiopian grain market," by Eleni Z. Gabre-Madhin (2001). Research report ; 124.
    -- "The Egyptian food subsidy system...options for reform," by Akhter U. Ahmed ...[et al.] (2001). Research report ; 119.
    -- "Seasonal undernutrition in rural Ethiopia...functional significance," by Anna Ferro-Luzzi ...[et al.] (2001). Research report ; 118.
    -- "Structural adjustment and intersectoral shifts in Tanzania...equilibirum analysis," by Peter Wobst (2001). Research report ; 117.
    -- "Access to credit and its impact on welfare in Malawi," by Aliou Diagne, Manfred Zeller (2001). Research report ; 116.
    -- "Wheat policy reform in Egypt...future reforms," by Mylène Kherallah ...[et al.] (2000). Research report ; 115.
    -- "Urban livelihoods and food and nutrition security in Greater Accra, Ghana," by Daniel Maxwell ...[et al.] (2000). Research report ; 112.
    -- "Agricultural growth linkages in Sub-Saharan Africa," by Christopher L. Delgado ...[et al.] (1998) Research report ; 107.
• International Medical Corps Online (Los Angeles, California)
  • "International Medical Corps (IMC) is a nonprofit, humanitarian, relief organization established in 1984 by volunteer United States physicians and nurses. In war-torn and impoverished regions worldwide, IMC saves lives and relieves suffering while providing the critical knowledge and skills to help people help themselves and foster self-reliance." This site provides general information on IMC activities, means of support, and employment opportunities.
  • Home Page--Where We Work
  • Ebola Emergency Response
• International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (Paris, France)
  << L'Union internationale pour l'étude scientifique de la population (UIESP) vise à promouvoir et à encourager les recherches en démographie et sur des sujets ayant trait à la population. Fondée en 1928 et reconstituée en 1947, l'UIESP est une association scientifique internationale composée de près de 2000 membres individuels intéressés par les questions de population. Plus d'un tiers de nos membres sont originaires de pays en développement.>>
  Voir surtout: Publications ; Conferences & other events
  

 

 

 

• Malaria in Africa
  • AMMREN--African Media and Malaria Research Network (Accra, Ghana)
    "...formed in November 2006, and it is a network of African journalists and scientists working together to reduce the burden of malaria, which is endemic in most parts of Africa and the number one killer of children under five."
    --Eyes on Malaria. (Online) -- Accra, Ghana: AMMREN, 2006-
  • Center for Strategic & International Studies, Global Health Policy Center -- Malaria (Washington, DC)
    • Transformative Tools for Malaria Elimination (December 2014) By PATH Malaria Centre of Excellence.
      18 pages in PDF format
    • The Danger of Untreatable Malaria is Real and Present (December 2014) By Christopher B. Plowe.
      12 pages in PDF format
    
    
  • Demographic and Health Surveys--Malaria Indicator Surveys (Calverton, Maryland)
    
    
  • INFORM: Information for Malaria (KEMRI–Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Nairobi, Kenya)
    • "For over 20 years, the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust programme has been interested in how malaria parasite exposure affects disease outcomes in African children...The ambition of this programme is... through the use of mapped epidemiological features of malaria to design cost-effective control at sub-national levels...Since 2015...The INFORM team in Nairobi partnered with the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine to work more directly with countries under the leadership of WHO-AFRO..."
    • African country data and publications
    • Working papers
    • Journal articles
    
    
  • London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine--Malaria Centre (London, UK)
    --See especially: Publications ; Research Projects--by country
  • Malaria Consortium in Africa (London, UK)
    • "Established in 2003, Malaria Consortium is one of the world’s leading non-profit organisations specialising in the prevention, control and treatment of malaria and other communicable diseases among vulnerable populations."
    • News
    • Resources
  • Malaria journal. (Online) -- London, UK: BioMed Central, 2007-
    
  • Mapping Malaria Risk in Africa = Atlas du Risque de la Malaria [du Paludisme] en Afrique (South Africa)
    Registration required. MARA/ARMA is an international effort in support of the compilation, dissemination, and advance of malaria research in Africa. General information about conferences and workshops; plus "Publications," including 1st technical report and maps on malaria distribution and other demographic data.
  • Multilateral Initiative on Malaria (Stockholm, Sweden)
    • Last updated in 2013, the website --in English or in French-- features news and information about conferences; plus related links. 'Founded in the mid-1990s, MIM is an alliance of organizations and individuals who are seeking to maximize the impact of scientific research against malaria in Africa, through promoting capacity building and facilitating global collaboration and coordination.'
    • 7th edition International MIM Conference, April 15-18, 2018, Dakar, Senegal, Abstracts -- "Dakar II, Two Decades of Progress, Challenges and Perspective in Ending Malaria" --via MESA--Malaria Eradication Scientific Alliance (Barcelona, Spain)
      --See also: Malaria Eradication Scientific Alliance Correspondents on the 7th MIM Conference, Complete Series
      
    • MIM news, reports, and conference information
      
    
    
  • Nature--Medicine: "Open Letter to International Funders of Science and Development in Africa," April 15, 2021. (London, UK)
    
    
  • World Health Organization's World Malaria Report 2019 -- Geneva, Switzerland: WHO, 2019 (232 pages in PDF format)
    --See: 2018 ; 2017 ; 2016
    --Plus: Country Profiles, 2008-2018
    --See also: WHO--Africa Regional Office on Malaria below

 

• Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF):
  • MSF International Home Page
• South African Medical Research Council (Tygerberg, South Africa)
  See also: MRC publications and press releases.
• PASCAR--Pan African Society of Cardiology (Cape Town, South Africa)
  "PASCAR had its beginnings in 1981 in Badagry, Nigeria in response to the total lack of interest in cardiovascular disorders by many health authorities on the continent...In March 1989...[PASCAR created] 5 regional bodies (East, West, Central, North and South)."
  --See also: Highlights from Cardiovascular journal of Africa. (Online)
• RAND Corporation -- Africa (Washington, DC)
  • RAND Issue Paper: "Population growth in Egypt: a continuing policy challenge" (2000) By Mona Khalifa, Julie DaVanzo, David M. Adamson. Population matters. (RAND Center for Middle East Public Policy)
  • RAND Research Brief: "Contraception and fertility in Zimbabwe" (1997) (RAND Labor and Population Program, Yale University Center for International Studies; and RAND, Washington, DC)
• Union Pour l'Etude de la Population Africaine = Union for African Population Studies (Dakar, Sénégal)
  • << L'UEPA est une organisation scientifique, panafricaine, à but non lucratif, a été créée ...en mars 1984. >>
  • Les tables de matières de la revue Etude de la Population Africaine = African Population Studies. (Yaoundé, Cameroun)
  • UAPS newsletter. (Online)
  • Sixth African Population Conference, 5-9 December 2011, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso---Program and Abstracts (via Pampa, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey)
• United Nations Economic Commission for Africa: Scoring African leadership for better health. (2004). -- Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: ECA, 2004. PDF format
  • See also: United Nations Economic Commission for Africa: "An Assessment of African Experiences"--1999 Follow-up to the Dakar/Ngor Declaration at the 1994 "International Conference on Population & Development"; the annual "Economic Report for Africa" ; and, the UNECA's Food Security and Sustainable Development Division (FSSD) reports on population.
• UNFPA: United Nations Population Fund (New York)
  • UNFPA assists in gathering data on population and health as well as promoting development worldwide. The web site includes statistical data for each country on population, socio-economic development, and reproductive health; and, special reports.
  • UNFPA Home Page
  • State of the World Population Annual Report
  • Country profiles for population and reproductive health: policy developments and indicators (2005) -- New York: UNFPA, 2005. 368 pages in PDF format
• United States Agency for International Development (USAID) on Health in Africa:
  • DOLPHN--Data Online for Population, Health & Nutrition
    --See especially: Country Reports
  • SARA: Support for Analysis and Research in Africa
    "The SARA project supports the work of USAID's Bureau for Africa, Office of Sustainable Development (AFR/SD) to improve policies and programs in health and basic education."
    -- SARA Home Page
    -- Online full-text publications on child survival, health education, family planning and other health-related topics Search by topic and country in "USAID Development Experience Clearinghouse"
• WaterAid: a development charity (UK)
  • Home Page
  • WaterAid in Africa:
    -- Burkina Faso
    -- Ethiopia
    -- Ghana
    -- Madagascar
    -- Malawi
    -- Mali
    -- Mozambique
    -- Nigeria
    -- Tanzania
    -- Uganda
    -- Zambia
  
  
  
• The World Bank on Health (Washington, DC)
  • Health, Nutrition, and Population (General)
  • Millennium Development Goals in Health -- Data (General)
  
  
• World Health Organization on Africa (WHO) (Geneva, Switzerland)
  • Home Page
  • WHO Publications
  • WHO Digital Library (IRIS)
    
    Selected WHO publications from 1930 to the present..
  • WHO Countries or Members = Pays ou Membres de l'OMS
    
  • Atlas of African health statistics 2019
    • See also: 2014 ; 2016 ; 2018
  • WHO African Region--Current and Recent Publications
  • WHO InfoBase -- Country Data
    
  • World Health Statistics, 2005 to present
    
  • WHO Regional Office for Africa--WHO/AFRO (Brazzaville, Republic of Congo; via WHO, Geneva)
    • All Weekly Bulletins on Outbreaks and Emergencies
    • Integrated African Health Observatory
      
    • The health of the people: the African regional health report (2006) -- Brazzaville: WHO Regional Office for Africa, 2006. 194 pages in PDF format
    • African Index Medicus (Online)
    • WHO Regional Office for Africa on Malaria
  • World Health report 2008--Primary health care-now more than ever = Les soins de santé primaires: maintenant plus que jamais. -- Geneva, Switzerland: WHO, 2008.
    
  • World health report 2007--A safer future: global public health security in the 21st century = Un avenir plus sûr: la sécurité sanitaire mondiale au XXIe siècle. -- Geneva, Switzerland: WHO, 2007.
    
  • World health report 2006: working together for health = Rapport sur la santé dans le monde 2006: travailler ensemble pour la santé. -- Geneva, Switzerland: WHO, 2006.
    
  • World health report 2005: make every mother and child count = Rapport sur la santé dans le monde 2005. -- Geneva, Switzerland: WHO, 2005.
    
  • World health report 2004: changing history = Rapport sur la santé dans le monde 2004: changer le cours de l'histoire. -- Geneva, Switzerland: WHO, 2004.
    -- Country profiles
    -- 1995-2003 reports
  • WHOLIS -- World Health Organization Library Database
    "WHOLIS indexes all WHO publications from 1948 onwards and articles from WHO-produced journals and technical documents from 1985 to the present [***including selected online full text documents]."
  • WHO -- Health Action in Crises
    WHO documents on current health situations and assistance around the world....including Angola, Congo Rep., D.R.C., Eritrea/Ethiopia, Great Lakes, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, Somalia, and Sudan.
  • WHO African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control - APOC, 1997-
    "Its goal is the elimination of onchocerciasis as a disease of public health and socio-economic importance throughout Africa. Building upon the success of the Onchocerciasis Control Programme in West Africa (OCP), which is on the verge of eliminating the disease from 11 West African countries, the new Programme will establish sustainable control in the remaining 19 countries in Africa, where the disease is still a public health problem."
  • WHO Global Tuberculosis Program (General)
    
  • WHO Report of a Meeting on the Optimal Use of Regional Drug Quality Control Laboratories in Africa (Niamey, Niger, 8-12 November 1993) (Full text in downloadable PDF file)
    

 

 

• 9th Africa Conference on Sexual & Reproductive Health --"Advancing the Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights of Women and Girls in Urban in Informal Settlements," February 10-14, 2020, Nairobi, Kenya
  
• African Union/Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention: 1st International Conference on Public Health in Africa, May 12-14, 2021, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia ***Postponed!
  .
• EthicMedAfrique : Nouveaux enjeux éthiques du médicament en Afrique, 1-2 juil. 2013, Dakar, Sénégal: Echanges pluridisciplinaires (sciences sociales, juridiques et santé publique) autour de l'éthique du médicament en Afrique de l'ouest et du centre.
  • Programme
  • Résumés 60 pages en format PDF
• 7th edition International MIM Conference, April 15-18, 2018, Dakar, Senegal, Abstracts -- "Dakar II, Two Decades of Progress, Challenges and Perspective in Ending Malaria" --via MESA--Malaria Eradication Scientific Alliance (Barcelona, Spain)
  --See also: Malaria Eradication Scientific Alliance Correspondents on the 7th MIM Conference, Complete Series
  
• 28th IUSSP International Population Conference, Cape Town, South Africa, 29 October--3 November 2017 (Union Internationale pour l'Etude Scientifique de la Population, Paris, France)
  --See: IUSSP Conferences (General)
  
  --See also: 26th IUSSP Conference, Marrakech, Morocco, 27 Sept--2 Oct 2009 -and- 25th IUSSP Conference, Tours, France, 18-23 July 2005 (via Princeton University, New Jersey)
• New Approaches to Maternal Mortality in Africa, July 2-3, 2012, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, & Humanities, King's College, University of Cambridge, UK
  "...to provide a forum within which people with very different expertise and experience can explore the latest research findings...The following two areas, taken together, will form the focus of the conference: biological mechanisms determining birth outcomes ; the social and historical context for maternal mortality in Africa."
• "Population, développement, et planification familiale en Afrique de l'Ouest francophone: l'urgence d'agir," 8-10 fevrier 2011, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
• 15th African Union Summit--Final Declaration on "Maternal, Infant and Child Health and Development in Africa," 19-27 July 2010, Kampala, Uganda  (via WHO, The Partnership for Maternal, Infant and Child Health, Geneva, Switzerland)
  
• International Conference on Population and Development, Cairo 1994-2020
  • Final Report (1994) 197 pages in PDF format
  • Nairobi Summit on ICPD25 (November 12-14, 2019)
  • 20th Anniversary Edition -- "International Conference on Population and Development Programme of Action" (2014) 296 pages in PDF format ; via United Nations Population Fund.
    
• Other Conferences on HIV/AIDS in Africa (See HIV/AIDS section above)
  
• The World Bank: Sustainable Health Care Financing in Southern Africa: 1996 Seminar Papers. (The World Bank Group, Washington, DC)
  An online library of the proceedings and papers in PDF format  from an EDI Health Policy Seminar held in Johannesburg, South Africa, June 1996. There are papers on Angola, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, South Africa, Botswana, Swaziland, Lesotho, and Mozambique.

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• African Studies Centre Library, Leiden University: Dossier on HIV/AIDS in Africa (Library, Documentation & Information Department; Leiden, The Netherlands)
  "The dossier contains a selection of titles from the library's online catalogue, as well as selected web links on HIV/AIDS in Africa. It covers monographs, articles and chapters from edited works published in the last five years (1999-2003), which are arranged in three sections: Africa (general), South Africa, and Other African countries."
• Annotated Bibliography on Gender and HIV/AIDS (2003). Compiled by Marita Eibl and Valerie Foster. (Michigan State University, Center for Gender in Global Context; East Lansing, Michigan)
  
• Bioline International Publications: Abstracts, Full Texts for Selected Journals, and Subscriptions (Centro Referência Informação Ambiental, Brazil ; Electronic Publishing Trust for Development, UK)
  • Twelve African science journals, plus numerous others from outside of Africa, can be accessed online. There are also links to technical reports and newsletters. This is a program that allows the reader to view the abstracts of a small number of science journals without charge. Recent issues of selected journals are available in full text for free. However, to view online or receive full texts for other titles, paid registration is required. There are journals from Kenya, Uganda, Zimbabwe, South Africa....including:
  • African journal of biotechnology. (Online) -- Nairobi, Kenya: Academic Journals, Inc, 2002-
  • African journal of food and nutritional security. (Online) -- Nairobi, Kenya: Quest and Insight Publishers ; Friends-of-the Book Foundation, 2001-
  • African journal of neurological sciences. (Online) -- Nairobi, Kenya: Pan African Association of Neurological Sciences, 1995--
  • African population studies. (Online) -- Dakar, Senegal: Union for African Population Studies, 2002-
• CODESRIA--Centre de documentation et d'information (Conseil pour le développement de la recherche en sciences sociales en Afrique, Dakar, Sénégal)
  • Access and Equity in African Health Systems: Bibliography = Accès et équité dans les systèmes de santé en Afrique: bibliographie (du 11 juillet au 5 août 2005). 57 pages en format PDF.
    
  • Governing the African Health System: Bibliography = Gérer le système sanitaire africain: bibliographie (du 8 mars au 2 avril 2004) 33 pages en format PDF.
    
  • Primary health care and women in Cape Town (South Africa) and Harare (Zimbabwe): annotated bibliography (2009) 28 pages in PDF format.
    
  • Private health provisioning in Africa = Offre privée de santé en Afrique: bibliographie (du 5 au 30 novembre 2007). 55 pages en format PDF.
    
  • Traditional forms of health provisioning in Africa: Bibliography = Formes traditionnelles de fournitures de santé en Afrique: bibliographie (du 16 juillet au 4 août 2006).
    35 pages en format PDF.
• ELDIS Resource Guide on HIV/AIDS. Electronic Development and Environment Information System, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex. (Brighton, UK)
  A general guide to resources on HIV/AIDS and development issues on the Internet.
• Annotated bibliography: Literature on Equity in Health in Southern Africa. (2005) Compiled for Equinet - The Network for Equity in Health in Southern Africa, Harare, Zimbabwe.
  Downloadable in PDF Format only. See also, the Equinet Home Page above.
• "Female circumcision and infibulation in Africa," by David M. Westley (1999). Electronic journal of Africana bibliography ; no. 4. -- Iowa City : University of Iowa Libraries, 1999.
  An extensive bibliography of over 560 entries on the subject, with a linked country & ethnic group index.
• IREDA--Inventaire des recensements et enquêtes démographiques en Afrique (CePeD--Centre Population et Développement, Université Paris Descartes, France)
  Un inventaire des publications de plusieurs pays de l'Afrique de l'ouest et de l'Afrique centrale: Bénin; Cameroun; Congo RD; Côte d'Ivoire; Mali; et Niger.
  --Veuillez voir aussi: Bibliographie générale -et- une liste de liens et des autres ressources
• "Medical / health periodicals and books on Africa," by John Bruce Howell (1997), International Studies Bibliographer, University of Iowa Libraries. In Electronic journal of Africana bibliography. (Online) no. 3., 1997. (University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa City)
  

• CDC Travelers' Health Advisories, 2001--. (U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia)
  • CDC Travel Information: Main Page (includes travel notices on disease outbreaks around the world)
  • Search by country  for latest CDC advisories and warnings
    
• Trip Prep (Shoreland, Inc., Milwaukee, Wisconsin)
  This site provides health precautions and travel warnings for individual countries -- many with recent updates -- based on reports from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, the World Health Organization, the U.S. Dept. of State, and medical news services. Registration is required to access the database.
• United States Department of State Travel Advisories -- Search By Country
  
• United States Embassies and Other Diplomatic Missions (Africa and elsewhere)