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STI prevention was largely driven by HIV prevention. With changes in HIV prevention initiatives that don’t really take into account other STIs, there’s need to refocus STI prevention.
Medical and Health Humanities conversations and collaborations about health are growing and gaining momentum in Africa.
Effective communication strategies will be crucial if scientists want to counter the worrying anti-vaccination trend.
The new Ebola vaccine is yet to be licensed but evidence shows that it protects against the strain of the virus.
Mental health care for teen mothers is not part of routine health facilities in Nairobi’s informal settlements.
Without the current experimental vaccine the Ebola outbreak in the DRC has the potential to spiral out of control.
At the turn of the century, the greatest threats were posed by infectious diseases today, the biggest threats are posed by lifestyle diseases.
South Africa’s Competition Commission has delayed the release of the final report of an inquiry into the private healthcare again.
Global experts warn that excessive screen time increases the risk of obesity, low physical fitness, anxiety and depression.
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.
If the curative thesis is true, then most medicine throughout history – as well as much contemporary medicine – isn’t medicine at all.
Easy access to alcohol and exposure to alcohol advertisements affect social and health outcomes.
Gene sequences can be manipulated to prevent certain diseases and improve public health.
Research found that burns were most common among children under five years.
A Lancet series shows that C-sections are performed for non-medical reasons in private health while poor women who need the surgery don’t have access.
Using a large number of computers to screen TB drugs reduces the cost and time.
Significant new insights are emerging for the treatment of malaria, and eventually its eradication.
Religious and cultural beliefs play a role in the country’s organ donor shortages. But these factors alone grossly oversimplifies the issue.
The National Tobacco Control Act gives the tobacco industry inside access to the decision making process.
If women don’t have access to quality emergency surgery, they can develop dibilitating complications such as fistula.
Data suggest that people are living many years in poor health in Africa.
Instability in the DRC and Ebola’s deadly properties is making it hard to contain the virus.
How is pain measured? A person’s pain is what they say it is.
It could be a matter of days before the ebola epidemic in the DRC spreads to urban centres or spills over into neighbouring countries.