African nations grappling to contain coronavirus are scrambling to stop the outbreak from worsening the impact of other killer diseases, AFP reports.
Across the continent, countries regularly face surges from a raft of diseases that flourish in the humid weather and prey on weak health systems.
Malaria strikes down hundreds of thousands each year. Typhoid, measles and cholera are endemic to many areas, tuberculosis and HIV are particularly prevalent in southern Africa and the "meningitis belt" stretches from Senegal to Ethiopia.
