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Obese persons are regularly associated with laziness and inactivity in Ghanaian society.
Nigeria must step up its preparedness for monkeypox.
Medicinal plants and the associated indigenous knowledge could offer alternatives for women who lack access to modern contraceptives.
If you cannot communicate a concept clearly, then you don’t understand it well enough yourself.
The MPLA is using all instruments at its disposal to hobble a new united opposition front ahead of the Angola election.
At this stage of the pandemic complacency is likely to lead to an increase in cases, hospitalisation, morbidity and mortality.
Abortions are more often self-induced by women with drugs and dangerous substances in Nigeria due to restrictive abortion laws.
Repeated resurgences of SARS-CoV-2 transmission are expected in the years to come.
People want a simple answer. Is this action safe? But despite Anthony Fauci bouncing responsibility for COVID-19 risk assessment to individuals, your risk can’t be boiled down to one probability.
Social media platforms can be used to share critically important information about disaster management.
The COVID-19 pandemic presents us with a unique opportunity to rethink and reform public health care in Canada. That’s why premiers’ demands for more unconditional health-care dollars are so misguided.
Two political scientists in their study in South Dakota found people trusted medical professionals the least when it came to public health messages.
Public health remains the Cinderella of services when it comes to health budgets. But the pandemic has shown why New Zealand urgently needs a better investment approach.
The direct effects of COVID-19 disease on pregnant women, newborns and children are acknowledged. But the indirect effects of the pandemic have been equally devastating.
Evidence suggests that involving marginalised communities in setting priorities and designing collective action can lead to improved health outcomes.
Before the COVID pandemic, efforts to address the challenge of limited vaccine production on the continent yielded little success.
Mobile health or mHealth is an appealing way to reach adolescents because it offers opportunities to deliver and monitor health interventions at a much lower cost.
Nearly three-quarters of all patients in the study were taking at least one antibiotic. This is high and could indicate overuse.
It is likely that countries may use the US abortion ban to further restrict abortion access for fear of losing health funding.
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