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Intensified efforts to obtain funding are urgently required to mitigate and reverse the negative impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on TB.
Systemic large scale forced abortions in Nigeria’s north-east are a new development.
Addressing the noncommunicable disease pandemic can also mitigate challenges facing people living with HIV and complement efforts against TB.
Through articles written by academic experts in the course of the year, The Conversation Africa takes a second look at Nigeria in 2022.
Children who need help most tend to experience adversity throughout childhood. That continuing adversity muffles the benefit of improved early nutrition.
There are personal, environmental and structural factors that influence a patient’s ability to adhere to treatment.
Most beaches along Durban’s coastline have critical E. coli levels above acceptable safety levels and should be considered a public health hazard.
The ravages of climate change and hunger do not occur in isolation, but are part of the system we have built.
Climate change is affecting the availability of food to the families of farmers in Ghana.
As US-Africa leaders meet, it should be clear that aligning respective goals, priorities and actions is in the interests of the US and of African countries.
Services such as chemotherapy are only available in tertiary hospitals located in the country’s urban centres. Transport to these hospitals can be a barrier to care.
The interests of bandits and jihadists are converging in Nigeria and this poses a formidable threat to the country’s security.
Interventions against intimate partner violence may work better if they target the mechanisms that make empathic women more vulnerable.
Reductions in the affordability of cigarettes will ensure significant reductions in tobacco use.
DDT accumulates in wildlife and magnifies up the food chain. Birds of prey occupy the top of these food chains in various ecosystems.
There are several reasons that TB patients don’t or can’t adhere to their treatment.
Some vulnerable populations may have fallen through the cracks despite efforts to improve access to HIV services during the pandemic in Nigeria.
The individual stories of migrant women are essential in understanding if HIV healthcare strategies and programmes are working.
Experts across the board have identified inequality as a major challenge to efforts to end AIDS.
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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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Regional Adviser, Immunisation, WHO Regional Office for Africa, Stellenbosch University
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