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Health workers in Liberia at the height of the 2014-2016 Ebola outbreak. Ahmed Jallanzo/EPA

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New partnership to boost drug discovery for malaria, TB and more in Africa

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(L to R): Thierry Zomahoun, president and CEO of AIMS, and founder and chair of NEF, Elsevier CEO, Ron Mobed.

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Study: African surgical patients twice as likely to die

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