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A Door-to-Door Effort to Find Out Who Died Helps Low-Income Countries Aid the Living

Many developing countries don’t keep official death records. A novel effort uses “electronic autopsies” to count deaths, and record their cause.

Sierra Leone, one of the world’s poorest countries, is working to build a modern mental health system from scratch.

Why coronavirus case and death rates have been so low in much of sub-Saharan Africa compared with the rest of the world.

The coronavirus was expected to devastate the continent, but higher-income and better-prepared countries appear to have fared far worse.