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mHealth supported service-delivery systems can provide increased access to hearing and vision services for preschool children in poor communities.
Less than 1 in 10 people living with a mental health condition in South Africa receive the care that they need.
Even when cases of measles are detected in clinics, limited diagnostic and communication infrastructure can delay the response.
It’s essential to consider the food industry’s role when it comes to food environments that offer unhealthy, cheap and enticing options.
Providing affordable pregnancy tests to women in low-resource countries is a critical, yet under-appreciated, way to improve their health.
Healthcare workers in sub-Saharan Africa lack access to laboratory diagnostics and often have to guess which antibiotics to use for presumed infections.
Rwanda’s government has taken concerted, deliberate steps over the past 25 years to build a strong health system.
The current outbreak refuses to give in to efforts by an international team of health care workers, armed with vaccines and treatment that did not even exist during previous episodes.
Nearly everything known about Ebola virus persistence in the reproductive system has resulted from testing semen of West African Ebola virus disease survivors.
Because Helicobacter Pylori is contagious, treating it properly is key to preventing its spread.
There is no specific policy guiding the prevention and management of foetal alcohol spectrum disorder in South Africa.
Climate change is anticipated to cause a rise in the incidence of several diseases in sub-Saharan Africa.
Water is crucial to the spread of malaria because mosquitoes breed and lay their eggs in or near bodies of water.
Midlevel health workers can provide diagnostic and therapeutic services with lower entry qualification requirements and shorter training periods than doctors.
While no deaths have been reported in Ethiopia so far, outbreaks of the mosquito-borne disease spread rapidly and have severe impacts on public health.
Societal pressures make it hard for people living in low-income areas to change their ways.
Top-down reforms like those proposed in the NHI Bill need to be complemented by a bottom-up process of health system strengthening.
There are a number of effective interventions to prevent gender-based violence among adult women and men at risk of HIV infection. But little is known about the effectiveness of these in young people.
Local communities are wary of the sudden arrival of outsiders and of their interest in regions where there’s been violence for years
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.
The fact that relative food prices differ so markedly and so systematically provides a very strong rationale for nutrition-focused food policies.
Epidemics can have massive social ramifications where prohibitions are imposed on travel, socio-cultural events and schooling.
Timing is everything when it comes to making a decision about declaring a disease outbreak a public health emergency of international concern.
South Africa’s planned NHI has no equivalent in any setting in the world. It’s deeply flawed on a number of fronts.