• Anna K. Mwaba

The AU seeks an increased role in emergencies like the Ebola crisis in West and Central Africa and the civil war in South Sudan.

• Ashoka Mukpo

Making sure we give credit where it’s due to those on the frontline during the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.

• Ibrahim Abdullah

Is it coincidental that nation-states just emerging from brutal civil wars cannot cope with Ebola because of their broken institutions?

• Sarah Emily Duff

• Alice de Vries

Biased media reporting won’t advance popular and professional understandings on how psychiatric conditions interact social and economic sources of stress.

• Jonathan Duncan

The diagnostic parameters need to be completely overhauled as they embody a Western mode of understanding which itself is culturally bound.

• Nicholas Barber

Discussions of the "shifting disease burden" fail to recognize that in the West diabetes or heart disease are not “diseases of affluence,” but diseases of poverty.

• Dan Moshenberg

The war on women’s health in the United States is a war without borders. It also extends to attempts in Africa to legalize abortion. And the US Republican party and its auxiliaries are in front.

• Brett Davidson

The health news - with major implications for Africans living on the continent - that made the headlines in 2011.

• Sean Jacobs