Seasonal influenza is a serious public health problem.
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Influenza is an important cause of severe respiratory illness in Kenya especially among children below two years of age.
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Manufacturing one of the world’s most important vaccines will have several benefits for South Africa.
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Governments in Africa have done little to institute policies that improve awareness and protect people who have epilepsy.
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Shared toilets have been shown to be linked to poor health outcomes.
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Kenya must establish policies to tackle dengue fever and chikungunya, like it did for malaria.
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Giving pregnant mothers the flu vaccine protected their babies from getting the flu in the first six months of life.
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There have been a variety of approaches to tackle malnutrition. The continent needs to learn from past mistakes across the world.
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A new silver-based compound that is less toxic with fewer side effects could hold the key to crippling cancer.
South Africa has a health workforce in crisis.
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Healthcare workers are losing trust in the system in South Africa.
Slums like Mathare in Nairobi are particularly prone to flooding.
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The health challenges that Nairobi can expect in the wake of heavy rains are largely preventable.
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The current range of TB diagnostic tests have various limitations like the sputum smear which is outdated, clumsy and takes long to process.
Justice Dikgang Moseneke presents his final report on the Life Esidimeni arbitration hearings.
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Retired South African justice Dikgang Moseneke has made a landmark ruling for damages in the Life Esidimeni matter.
Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi. Kenya’s health system is under huge pressure.
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Kenya spends millions treating women who have complications after unsafe abortions.
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Health authorities have raised the alarm after several cases of human rabies were reported in a space of four months.
A lab sample of the bacteria listeria monocytogene that causes listeriosis.
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The bacterial pathogen that is responsible for listeriosis can survive under even the toughest conditions.
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In Uganda, essential medicines are not being stocked at facilities that need them most. This includes drugs to treat chronic diseases.
Treated bed nets are effective in preventing malaria where mosquitoes bite indoors and late at night.
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Kenya has managed to reduce the number of malaria cases in parts of the country. But this, in turn, has led to immunity levels dropping.
A younger Dr Trudy Thomas engaging with a community in St Mathews en route to visit a clinic.
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The tale of an unsung South African hero in the field of community health.
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In the future, traps for mosquito that spread the dengue and chikungunya virus could be made from the carbon dioxide in human breathe as well as body odour.
Donor funding for HIV treatment has saved millions of lives in sub Saharan Africa.
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Remarkable progress is being made on HIV treatment. But African countries need to work on sustainable ways to ensure the treatment programmes are not entirely dependent on foreign aid.
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There are many benefits to walking - whether you do it in a group or on your own.
Mothers wait at a local clinic. The city of Johannesburg plans to open 24 hour clinics to alleviate queues.
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Setting up 24 hour clinics in a busy metropole such as Johannesburg would help those who need health care most.
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When day zero arrives in Cape Town, the routine surveillance systems that monitor disease outbreaks will be enhanced to pick up new diseases.
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Health and demographic surveillance systems are important to understand people and the societies that they live in.
South Africa’s Justice Dikgang Moseneke presided over hearings into the deaths of 144 mentally ill patients who were moved to unregistered NGOs.
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Arbitration hearings into the deaths of mentally ill patients has brought to light shocking cruelty and neglect on the part of South African officials.