A shocking wave of school fires set by students across Kenya has elicited a range of counter-measures, none of which appears to get to the root of the problem.
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Thanks to life-skills training, girls who previously believed it improbable that they would go on to secondary school are now allowing themselves to dream about possibilities.
Many people are left floundering when they try to get working on their PhDs. In Africa, this is often because the skills they need haven’t been developed earlier in their academic careers.
Girls’ lives are still entangled in a culture whose custodians happen to be men.
Genomic research must take place in Africa because African populations have evolved significantly and their genetic composition is more diverse than that of populations elsewhere.
Non-communicable diseases are skyrocketing in Kenya and Uganda. Though the countries’ governments have a responsibility to tackle the problem, individuals need to take action too.
For most women, participating in the labour force is dependent on whether they have adequate child care they can rely on.
Vasectomies could be an effective male birth control method in Africa but the procedure is misunderstood and therefore poorly used.
Over the last three years Kenya has seen marked improvements in its nutrition-related targets as a result of a national nutrition plan it has implemented.
Contraception gives women the choice of how many children to have and when to have them. This empowers them - but millions of women in Kenya do not have this choice.
Unless African governments put their money where their mouths are, innovative advances from young scientists on the continent will be stifled.
Teenage pregnancy is a massive problem in Kenya. But for this to change, young women need access to information and education rather than moral lectures.
Kenya’s free primary and secondary education policies don’t benefit the country’s poorest children.
Material deprivation and young people desiring the latest fashion trends are motivating the transactional sex relationships in Malawi’s urban slums.
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Research Scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
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Postdoctoral Research Scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
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Research Scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
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Head of Urbanisation and Wellbeing, African Population and Health Research Center, African Population and Health Research Center
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Associate Research Scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
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Senior Research Scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
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Executive Director, African Population and Health Research Center
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Associate Research Scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
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Associate research scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
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Research officer, African Population and Health Research Center
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Research officer, African Population and Health Research Center
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Associate Research Scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
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Senior Research Scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
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Research Scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
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Associate Research Scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
