Handheld devices like this one, used for testing blood sugar levels, could help TB patients monitor their own drug levels.
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There are several reasons that TB patients don’t or can’t adhere to their treatment.
South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa.
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The impeachment process could derail Ramaphosa’s political career and seriously hurt the governing ANC’s electoral prospects in 2024.
Protesters demonstrate outside the high court in Cape Town against parole for Janusz Walus.
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The decision is likely to be relied on by courts to order the Department of Correctional Services to grant offenders parole.
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Some vulnerable populations may have fallen through the cracks despite efforts to improve access to HIV services during the pandemic in Nigeria.
COVID-19 lockdowns significantly reduced access to and the provision of antiretroviral treatment services.
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The individual stories of migrant women are essential in understanding if HIV healthcare strategies and programmes are working.
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The spy watchdog needs to make its findings on complaints against the country’s intelligence agencies public as a matter of principle.
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Experts across the board have identified inequality as a major challenge to efforts to end AIDS.
People in prison are more at risk of TB than the general population.
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The overcrowded conditions of prisons make them a high-risk environment for the spread of infectious diseases such as TB.
Brown-veined white butterflies migrate annually from the Kalahari region to Mozambique.
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Across the world, phenological events are occurring increasingly earlier as a result of climate change.
Agitated women vent their anger and frustrations at a gender-based violence summit with government in November 2018.
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South Africa had one of the best national gender machineries globally. But, these were dismantled and replaced with a dysfunctional ministry for women, youth and people with disabilities.
Remembering to take a pill every day can be a barrier to good adherence.
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The benefit of an injectable product is that it avoids the adherence issues related to taking a pill daily.
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Ignoring local realities risks excluding children from learning.
Cameroon’s President Paul Biya
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After 40 years in office, Cameroon’s 89 year old Paul Biya is the second longest serving leader in Africa. He is already eyeing another contest in 2025.
A Kenyan judicial nominee to the East African Court of Justice, Charles Nyachae, is sworn in before a summit of regional leaders in Kampala in 2018.
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The East African Court of Justice has been a keen promoter of the rule of law, democracy and human rights.
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Some countries, like Kenya, Uganda, South Africa, Zambia, and Nigeria, have been more proactive than others, but it is still hard for many to get PrEP.
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Challenging myths about heterosexual white South African men, Prinsloo published four books of short stories in 12 years.
Antimicrobial use in poultry is threatening the health of consumers in Nigeria.
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Indiscriminate antimicrobial use in Nigeria’s poultry value chain is putting people at risk of developing resistance to medicines.
Most farmers in South Africa run small-scale operations.
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Based on official statistics, we conclude that the country has made more progress towards land reform than is generally suggested.
Cyril Ramaphosa.
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The new process of impeachment requires an objective test to be met.
Troops drive through Goma in eastern DRC in November 2022.
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Consolidating peace efforts across the vast territory has proved difficult for close to three decades. Scholars explain why.
Knee replacements can ease people’s pain - but they are also often prohibitively expensive.
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As the world’s population ages, cheap, durable and safe artificial limbs will become ever more important.
Simon Nkoli (left) with activist and physician Ivan Toms in 1989.
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The activist is today the subject of songs, sculptures, an annual lecture and even a new musical.
A herder grazes cattle alongside wildlife in Samburu, Kenya.
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Conservation that places less emphasis on who may or may not use a piece of land could result in better outcomes for people and wildlife.
Pupils in Kenya hold prayers for victims of a 2013 terror attack in Nairobi.
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Kenyan families with access to mass media are significantly more afraid of terrorism than those without access.
South African foreign minister, Naledi Pandor, right, hosts US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, for the SA-US Strategic Dialogue in Pretoria, in August 2022.
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Tensions between the US and South Africa – this time over the terror alert – are nothing new. Their relations have always had highs and lows since South Africa became a democracy in 1994.