The creation of a Research Excellence Barometer for Africa would contribute to retaining talent and expertise and ensure that Africans benefited from their own research efforts.
Mobile phones help internally displaced people in Nigeria to function better.
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Mobile phones are enhancing the lives of internally displaced people in Nigeria.
A nurse moves scrap from a damaged part of the Wukro General Hospital which was shelled, in Wukro, north of Mekele, on February 28, 2021.
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A consequence of a warming world is prolonged dry spells and periods of drought that can lead to infectious diseases like cholera.
An officer of the National Integrated Identity Management system collects data for Mr Charles Chepkwony’s digital ID in 2019 in Baringo, Kenya.
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Indira Govender, Africa Health Research Institute (AHRI); Alison Grant, Africa Health Research Institute (AHRI); Al Leslie, UCL; Emily B. Wong, Africa Health Research Institute (AHRI), and Yumna Moosa, Africa Health Research Institute (AHRI)
Progress against tuberculosis has long been inadequate to reach the target of elimination by 2030. But before the COVID-19 pandemic the world was making steady progress in diagnosing and treating TB.
Polly Ericksen, International Livestock Research Institute and Laura Cramer, International Livestock Research Institute
African livestock keepers need help: without proactive interventions, increasing temperatures will reduce meat and milk production.
BioNTech Marburg is one of the largest manufacturing facilities producing mRNA vaccines in the world.
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The provision of better health services and social grants has aided rural women’s progress in South Africa, but there are still tremendous needs to be met.
More than 200 million Africans need at least one assistive device.
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Attirées par la remontée des eaux froides de l’océan indien, les sardines de l’Afrique du Sud restent piégées dans ces mêmes eaux une fois qu’elles redeviennent chaudes.
Cocoa farming in West Africa is tinged with socio-cultural activities that are misunderstood by the West.
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Dean Faculty of Health Sciences and Professor of Vaccinology at University of the Witwatersrand; and Director of the SAMRC Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Analytics Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand
Principal Medical Scientist and Head of Laboratory for Antimalarial Resistance Monitoring and Malaria Operational Research, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
Professor and Programme Director, SA MRC Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science - PRICELESS SA (Priority Cost Effective Lessons in Systems Strengthening South Africa), University of the Witwatersrand