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It’s common to find medical doctors providing supportive health services and in the process getting distracted from their main clinical job concerns.
Governments must take urgent action to prevent noncommunicable diseases from becoming an uncontrollable epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa. Sugar-sweetened beverage taxation offers a potential solution.
Without reliable, local and timely data, countries will miss the potential of sugar-sweetened beverage taxation as a public health intervention.
Rwanda’s food policies focus on production to make sure people have livelihoods and enough nutritious food. Not much attention is given to overnutrition.
Tension between the government’s economic and public health priorities is preventing stronger fiscal measures to address nutrition-related noncommunicable diseases.
Between 2018 and 2019 Kenya registered a 30% spike in sugar production and an increase in sugar consumption.
Implementing a sugar-sweetened beverage tax in all African countries will require sufficient political will and support from civil society.
To cope with loss of income, some Nairobi households opted for cheaper foods, or conserved their cooking fuel by preparing smaller meals.
Due to early logistical planning, Rwanda had the capacity to store 5 million doses before the vaccines arrived.
The fight for vaccine equity needs to stop looking to multilateral institutions for permission and instead focus on the policy tools that are already available to states.
To stem the rise in diabetes, new and innovative methods of risk assessment must be implemented, specific to populations on the continent.
The results are in: South Africa’s ground-breaking health promotion levy, introduced in 2018, is working.
Kenya grapples with two major challenges in the vaccination rollout: access to sufficient doses in light of the global shortage; and vaccine hesitancy.
Families in Ghana are struggling to manage the long-term care of ageing relatives.
An accurate understanding of the problem is an important part of finding solutions.
The changes that society needs, such as preventing adolescent pregnancies, will not happen until researchers can use their findings to influence policy change.
Following a healthy diet may lower the risk of disease complications and allow patients to live well despite having the disease.
Narrow, unimaginative public health responses inhibit reducing HIV, exploitation and marginalisation within sex work.
There are three broad sets of health-related opportunities and benefits that may shape the future of India-Africa relations.
Nairobi harbours all the ingredients for zoonotic spillover to occur between animals and people, particularly in the most densely populated areas of the city.
Opponents to South Africa’s Bill restricting alcohol advertising claimed it would unjustifiably violate human rights, such as freedom of expression, and consumers’ rights to information.
Until vaccines that are capable of protecting all populations against TB are developed, treatment is the best option to preventing infection.
Solar-powered cold chain technologies can be game-changers in the fight against COVID-19 in resource-limited settings in sub-Saharan Africa and beyond.
Several countries on the continent had introduced COVID-19 vaccination by early March 2021.