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South Africa needs to integrate urban green spaces as part of valuable infrastructure and provide framework for their sustainability.
As tempting as it is, it is not possible to “supplement” oneself out of a bad lifestyle.
Pulses are important for many reasons. They are packed with nutrition, resilient and crucial for achieving food security in Africa.
The outcomes of obstetric operations has improved in the past decades. But women need equitable surgical care throughout their lives - not just during childbirth.
Remote working policy needs to strike a balance between productivity and individual rights of employees.
These vibrant writers embrace the open road and claim spaces that were denied them during apartheid.
There’s a common perception that supplements are harmless. But they can be dangerous at incorrect dosages.
Digital technology is changing the way water is accessed in Ghana. Water ATMs are gaining traction as a means to an end.
Kidjo has a remarkable cultural vision that spans the globe but stays true to her roots.
People with deeply-pigmented skin can also get skin cancer. But there is no evidence to suggest that this occurs because of sunburn or exposure to the sun.
Magoha’s impact is unmistakable in higher education, basic education, and in national examinations in Kenya.
Factors such as having supportive family and friends, safer communities, positive school environments and adequate resources, are often associated with more physical activity.
While Nigeria has made progress in controlling some neglected tropical diseases, it should do more as it carries a heavy burden of these diseases.
Every year, 1.7 billion people, most in the world’s poorest areas, are affected by NTDs. The diseases cause suffering, stigma, disability and sometimes death.
Simply put, southern Africans are experiencing heat stress more often than in 1979.
Curbing vaccine hesitancy is as much a matter of acknowledging its social, historical, and cultural roots as it is of addressing its clinical dimensions.
She paved the way for women to play the mbira – and then took the ancient tradition global.
South Africa’s energy crisis has far-reaching negative effects on water supply. Energy and water are intertwined.
The current energy transition could herald a new copper world. But will it be a long-anticipated resource blessing or yet another global scramble for the precious metal?
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Senior Fellow, Department of Agricultural Economics, Stellenbosch University
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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
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Research Scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
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Fellow, Nigerian Academy of Science
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Sociologist/Criminologist/Victimologist and Media Communication Expert, University of Ibadan
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Principal Medical Scientist and Head of Laboratory for Antimalarial Resistance Monitoring and Malaria Operational Research, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Research Fellow, Tegemeo Institute, Egerton University
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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
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Medical scientist, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Regional Adviser, Immunisation, WHO Regional Office for Africa, Stellenbosch University
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Medical Entomologist at the School of Biological Sciences, University of Nairobi
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Professor of Political Science and Chair of the South African Research Initiative in Gender Politics, Stellenbosch University
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Professor of Social Development Studies, University of Johannesburg
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Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Johannesburg
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Fellow, Infrastructure Institute, School of Cities, University of Toronto
