Matthew Quaife, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine y Finn McQuaid, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Manufacturers and health systems have shown that vaccines can be quickly and effectively deployed when accompanied by keen political and financial commitments.
Instead of making the lives of contact tracers easier, analysis shows the expensive technology missed contacts and added to their workload.
Deputy Minister in the Presidency Thembi Siweya, left, visits homeless people at Johannnesburg’s Park Station on ‘Census Night’, 2 February.
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The census will focus everyone in on the core challenges the country faces, where they are, and who is most affected.
People in the world’s poorest countries have not benefited equally from the recent advancements made in cancer.
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Women in cities tend to get more walking done, which is beneficial to both their health and the climate. Making streets safer for cycling would give them greater access to cities too.
A public health expert explains emergency measures recently brought in to manage the impact of Omicron on our stressed health system.
People gather to protest COVID-19 vaccine mandates and masking measures during a rally in Kingston, Ont., in November 2021. Ottawa’s proposals to bypass publishing vaccine mandate guidelines goes against the principles of good governance.
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In a time-honoured tradition of Canadian democracy, government regulations become public when they appear in the Canada Gazette. That’s why Ottawa’s proposal to bypass that step is so troublesome.
Thousands of physicians throughout the U.S. rely daily on the critical data provided to them by medical labs.
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The health care system is hemorrhaging medical lab workers, in part because of COVID-19 infections and also because of burnout, low wages and better opportunities elsewhere.
Africa has a growing promising cadre of smart and skilled health experts.
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To attain a new health order, African governments need to bolster investment in research and development, innovation and manufacturing of health tools.
The pandemic has engaged ordinary citizens in a way that can only be positive for the future of healthcare.
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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