Global experts warn that excessive screen time increases the risk of obesity, low physical fitness, anxiety and depression.
Maria Ramos, pictured here at the 2009 World Economic Forum early in her tenure at ABSA.
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Several locally listed companies still have no female board members while most who do diversify their boards tend to appoint only one female director at a time.
Efforts to end female genital mutilation are mostly designed by global and national agencies and risk ignoring change agents like the youth who are against the practice.
Lusala a local wild yam in Zambia that supplements diets has seen a considerable rise in demand.
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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