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To help people make informed decisions about ongoing COVID-19 risks, public health messaging needs to adapt as the pandemic evolves, just as immune systems adapt to new viruses and variants.
This is not the first time that the monkeypox virus has spread beyond Africa, its continent of origin. But the current epidemic is unprecedented for a number of reasons.
We expected to find that screening everybody for TB would identify individuals not yet diagnosed, and treating them quickly would reduce the prevalence of TB in the community.
Achieving herd immunity via vaccination was always going to be a hard ask. Now it’s mathematically impossible.
Kenya should improve access to life saving vaccines, and train healthcare workers on patient management and best practices.
Understanding the depth of vaccine hesitancy, and the drivers behind the lack of take-up is critical to preventing further deaths, infections, and continuing harm to the economy.
Problems caused by malnutrition - such as obesity - are on the rise in South Africa, with serious health consequences.
The number of smokers in Africa is projected to increase.
Obese persons are regularly associated with laziness and inactivity in Ghanaian society.
Nigeria must step up its preparedness for monkeypox.
Medicinal plants and the associated indigenous knowledge could offer alternatives for women who lack access to modern contraceptives.
If you cannot communicate a concept clearly, then you don’t understand it well enough yourself.
The MPLA is using all instruments at its disposal to hobble a new united opposition front ahead of the Angola election.
At this stage of the pandemic complacency is likely to lead to an increase in cases, hospitalisation, morbidity and mortality.
Abortions are more often self-induced by women with drugs and dangerous substances in Nigeria due to restrictive abortion laws.
Repeated resurgences of SARS-CoV-2 transmission are expected in the years to come.
People want a simple answer. Is this action safe? But despite Anthony Fauci bouncing responsibility for COVID-19 risk assessment to individuals, your risk can’t be boiled down to one probability.
Social media platforms can be used to share critically important information about disaster management.
The COVID-19 pandemic presents us with a unique opportunity to rethink and reform public health care in Canada. That’s why premiers’ demands for more unconditional health-care dollars are so misguided.
Top contributors
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Emeritus Professor in Public Health, University of Sydney
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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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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 Scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
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Medical scientist, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Executive Secretary, Nigerian Academy of Science
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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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Regional Adviser, Immunisation, WHO Regional Office for Africa, Stellenbosch University
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Distinguished Professor in the Department of Medicine and Director, The Centre for Medical Ethics & Law, Stellenbosch University
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Professor of Global Biosecurity, NHMRC L3 Research Fellow, Head, Biosecurity Program, Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney
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Fellow, Nigerian Academy of Science
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Professor in the faculty of Medicine, Mbarara University of Science and Technology
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Professor of medicine and deputy director of the Desmond Tutu HIV Centre at the Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town
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Dornsife Endowed Professor of Global Health, Drexel University
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Chief Research Officer, Kenya Medical Research Institute
