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Africans live longer lives now

Hello and welcome back to The Kable. This has been quite the week, eh? Deals; disease; drugs. And our very first long read by Nikita Mehta on the worrying similarities between the early global response to monkeypox and Covid.

In today’s Kable: Life expectancy goes up in Africa; Iran exports vaccines to Venezuela; Brazil uses virtual reality to separate …