An overwhelming majority of respondents didn’t think that their life under lockdown and wider pandemic conditions affected their mental health.
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The gap between predictions of COVID-19 deaths in Africa and what has actually happened is staggering.
Health surveillance assistants provide services in village clinics, mainly by assessing signs and symptoms in sick children. An electronic community case management app could make their job easier.
Breastfeeding support programmes need to engage more with the challenges that mothers face.
The women in our study knew that play was important, although they didn’t see it as an independent behaviour to be encouraged or promoted.
The Global Gag Rule transcends abortion and exacerbates weaknesses and vulnerabilities of the Kenyan health system.
The return of medicine can’t be avoided. It’s inevitable that some products will be returned because of faults or when they have expired.
The use of antiretroviral therapy among pregnant and breastfeeding women in Zambia has increased but adherence is a problem.
Emergency relief measures were operational for six months and are due to end soon. But the impacts of COVID-19 will be felt long after.
The current pneumococcal conjugate vaccine immunisation schedule requires three doses of the vaccine. These are usually the most expensive vaccines in childhood immunisation programmes.
The world is in the grip of a new pandemic which sets back the fight against rabies.
Adolescents and young adults who reported having experienced sexual violence were more likely to have also had an unintended pregnancy.
Some insights into previous outbreaks of human coronaviruses may be useful in explaining the comparatively ‘low’ numbers of COVID-19 infections and mortality in people with HIV in South Africa.
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.
Most efforts in Africa to date have been financially supported and driven from outside the continent.
Claims that a product can boost testosterone levels imply that this will lead to a gain in muscle and strength.
The experience of the Oxford vaccine and the measures put into place are not unusual. Many phase one and phase two clinical trials have holding rules.
Cardiovascular risk factors like diabetes and hypertension are preventable or relatively easy to treat with inexpensive medication.
Rates of suicidal behaviour are higher among South African students than among the general population or students in other countries. Understanding why will help shape prevention efforts.
There are over 1,000 lineages of SARS-CoV-2 circulating around the world. Nigerian scientists have found seven in the country and this is important.
Pooled testing, or group testing, has been used to diagnose relatively rare conditions, such as infection in blood donors. It could be used for universal early infant diagnosis and viral load testing.
Communities who are the custodians of the knowledge associated with African traditional medicinal plants must derive a fair economic return from these natural resources.
Less than 1% of the world’s research is produced in Africa.
Children have made many sacrifices because of the country’s COVID-19 response, including social isolation, lack of education opportunities and reduced access to nutrition programmes.
Poor populations bore a disproportionately higher burden of poor health.