Vaccination, disease surveillance, prevention and population health across African settings.
Standfirst: Nearly 1.92 million children aged 6–59 months in Somalia are projected to experience acute malnutrition between July 2026 and June 2027. With severe food insecurity, anticipated flooding and shrinking humanitarian support threatening access to essential services, urgent action is needed to protect vulnerable children.
Kenya’s response to its first confirmed imported case of Bundibugyo virus disease is raising an important question for the health system: how prepared are the facilities and healthcare workers expected to respond if additional cases emerge?
New operational guidance connects alerts, investigation, contact tracing and community engagement. It provides a framework to assess; national protocols still govern the response.
A confirmed imported Bundibugyo case changed Kenya’s response. The evidence needs to distinguish the patient, contact follow-up and any subsequent transmission.
From the abstract: “C57BL/6J IFNAR-/- mice, which lack the type I interferon (IFN-α/β) receptor, have been reported to be susceptible to filovirus infections, although their impaired innate immune response may represent a potential limitation of the model.”
From the abstract: “This review aimed to map the studies on adolescent sleep health in Africa with a focus on the geographical distribution, publication trends, pattern of sleep health measures, prevalence of sleep disorders, the barriers and facilitators to good sleep health, rural-urban disparities, as well as the associations of sleep health with mental health, school schedule and cardio-metabolic risk among the adolescents.”
From the abstract: “This study examined the relationships among parental stress, coping strategies, and QoL among mothers living in Kigamboni, Tanzania, using a convergent mixed-methods approach.”
From the abstract: “A facility-based cross-sectional study was carried out among pregnant women attending antenatal care (ANC) at a primary healthcare facility in Kumasi.”
From the abstract: “We conducted a retrospective review of Lesotho’s immunization and surveillance data during 2011–2025.”
From the abstract: “The current study aimed to evaluate the repellent efficacy of essential oils and their binary combinations as complex matrices against Anopheles arabiensis bites, the major malaria vector in Ethiopia.”