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Vaccine hesitancy has resulted in multiple vaccine-preventable disease outbreaks. Research on vaccine hesitancy in South Africa is limited. But growing evidence suggests that it’s becoming a problem.
Hemos estudiado cómo la información que circula por internet puede afectar a la percepción y aceptación de las vacunas.
Combating social media disinformation regarding vaccines is critical to reversing the growth in vaccine hesitancy around the world.
If the world is single-minded and focuses purely on combating one pandemic, forgetting others, the effects of other morbidity and mortality on healthcare systems will be seen for a long time to come.
The polio eradication programme in Africa directly combated a severe debilitating disease. But it also provided a platform for broader healthcare services on the continent.
Studies globally have made the link between the lack of adequate sanitation, particularly open defecation or shared community toilet facilities, and the increased risk of women and girls being raped.
South Africa faces high levels of noncommunicable diseases such as diabetes and hypertension. The NHI is likely to battle to cope with treating large numbers of sick people.
In a pandemic like this one, the priority is to save lives. But without a vaccine, there’s a limit in the tools available to save lives.
Too much ultraviolet radiation is dangerous for human health. Excessive exposure can cause skin ageing and sunburn and can induce melanoma, cataracts, ocular melanoma, and immunodeficiency.
Ubuntu provides a language for people to participate in preventive action, even if this involves practices such as lockdowns.
Africa is better prepared now to perform research in emerging infections than during the Ebola epidemics in West Africa.
The health and rights of children and adolescents, particularly the most marginalised and vulnerable, are under immediate threat from climate change, corporate actors and growing inequities.
Two interventions proved effective in reducing men’s perpetration, but not women’s experiences of violence.
The causes of injuries to children are often linked to the circumstances in which people live.
The aim is to discover, develop and facilitate delivery of anti-malarial medicines to help tackle the burden of malaria in endemic countries and support malaria eradication.
Sanders was not afraid to challenge and speak out about sensitive and difficult issues, to people in senior positions of power - and when he did, they sat up and listened.
Poverty, traumatic experiences, and gender inequalities, directly increased HIV-risk behaviours such as having unprotected sex and having multiple sexual partners.
Sharing data openly across regions and organisations can help to accelerate preparedness and responses to public health emergencies.
Researchers around the world are working hard to find a vaccine that is safe and effective.
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Medical Anthropologist, Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Analytics Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council
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Chief Specialist Scientist (Public Health), South African Medical Research Council
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Specialist Scientist, Alcohol Tobacco and Other Drug Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council
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Director, Alcohol, Tobacco & Other Drug Research Unit, SAMRC, South African Medical Research Council
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Specialist Scientist, Health Systems, South African Medical Research Council
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Deputy Director and Specialist Scientist , South African Medical Research Council
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Director: Office of AIDS and TB Research, South African Medical Research Council
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Research Professor, Perinatal HIV Research Unit and President, South African Medical Research Council
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Chief Specialist Scientist in Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drug Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council
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Project Manager, South African Medical Research Council
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Specialist Scientist Researcher, South African Medical Research Council
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Senior Scientist, Cochrane South Africa, South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) and Honorary researcher, Division of Social & Behavioural Sciences, School of Public Health, UCT, South African Medical Research Council
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Professor and Chief specialist scientist, South African Medical Research Council
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Specialist Scientist, Environment & Health Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council
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Socio-behavioural public health researcher, South African Medical Research Council
