Good news may be on the horizon for people who suffer from nasal allergies.
Threatened by insecurity, farmers in Nigeria’s farm belt are increasingly abandoning their land, leading to higher cost of food
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Nigeria’s post COVID-19 economic recovery plan has resulted in only marginal improvements in economic growth, manufacturing and foreign direct investment.
Food is prepared by a South African non-profit to feed over 87 000 people in underprivileged communities at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in Cape Town in 2020.
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Developments in the energy sector shouldn’t be reduced to technological sophistication. They should be guided by how they improve the livelihoods of the intended beneficiaries.
For working women with children, the pressure of several competing roles created their sense of guilt.
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Working from home and performing multiple roles leads to constant guilt, which has personal health consequences for women academics.
Liberia and Sierra Leone actively sought international aid to combat Ebola in 2014, Guinea downplayed the extent of the deadly disease.
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President Alpha Condé’s pursuit of mining interests during the Ebola crisis may have foreshadowed his demise as he tightened his grip over power and plundered the state’s wealth.
Volunteers gather at a beach, to clean up plastic litter at a Lagos beach.
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African government and international funding partners should focus on building laboratories in different parts of Africa to support plastic pollution research.
Children watch as police work behind a cordon where a young victim of a gang shooting lies dead on the ground.
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Findings show that in the face of marginalisation and social exclusion, youth in gangs think that they have no options except violence to prove that they are ‘real’ men in their communities.
A health worker prepares a malaria vaccination in Yala, Kenya.
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Jaishree Raman, National Institute for Communicable Diseases and Shüné Oliver, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
The successful development of an effective vaccine against the deadliest form of malaria that is most common in sub-Saharan Africa is indeed a major achievement.
Not all unplanned pregnancies are unwanted.
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Instead of asking, ‘How can teenage pregnancies be prevented?’, the following question should be posed: ‘How can reproductive injustices in relation to young women be reduced?
There is no evidence that punishment can serve as deterrent.
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WHO’s safeguarding failure in the DRC has re-focused attention on the sexual misconduct that surfaces with disgraceful regularity in humanitarian, development, and peacekeeping operations worldwide.
The first ever malaria vaccine promises to bring the battle against infections back on track.
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As is the case in other conflict and war situations, it was difficult to collect public data. So we examined tweets to understand what topics were being discussed.
A small-scale farmer in Soweto, South Africa.
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Many countries, including South Africa, use regulations to control smoking in public so that they do not harm non-smokers. Likewise, getting vaccinated is for the common good of society.
“shadowy groups” are using coordinated and elaborate tactics to spread disinformation on social media.
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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