As the Founder and Director of the African Centre of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Diseases (ACEGID) in Nigeria, Professor Christian T. Happi has been called a powerhouse of scientific …
In mid-November 2020, as Covid-19 cases were rising and two thousand people were dying every day in the U.S., Americans needed hope. They got it. Hope arrived in a syringe. Effective …
With HIV, diabetes and heart disease, the transgender woman living alone in Bengaluru, India, was a perfect candidate for a Covid-19 vaccine. But she thought it would kill instead of …
Growing up in a farming household in Homa Bay, a rural town in western Kenya along Lake Victoria, Dr. Samuel Oyola was often sick. So were his four older siblings …
In the first year of the Covid-19 vaccine rollout, the United States struggled to reach the most vulnerable communities, with Black, brown, indigenous, and immigrant communities less likely to get …
When the Covid-19 pandemic began, only a single lab in Malawi was working to sample SARS-CoV-2 viruses in this country of 19.55 million people. Only four people were working in …