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University students are particularly at high risk of depression. One global study suggests 21% of students have major depressive disorder.
The era of stocking pantries and keeping our fridges and freezers full is over.
COVID-19 and responses to the pandemic have increased our attention on how individuals and systems cope with stress-inducing shocks.
The proposed law reinforces unscientific conversion practices – or so-called reparative therapies – that don’t work.
Nigeria must do more to reduce its high malaria burden.
There have been disruptions. But national malaria control programmes have shown impressive resilience.
Many infections, including bacterial, fungal and viral infections can lead to sepsis and septic shock.
Rahima Moosa Hospital caters for a very large number of women and children. The large patient numbers and high burden of care have a negative impact on the hospital.
A new global dataset shows there is no clear global increase of infectious disease outbreaks over time. And it can suggest which countries would most likely be affected by an outbreak.
Health extension workers in Ethiopia have had a measurable impact on interconnected challenges such as child marriage, teenage pregnancy, and school dropout.
Criminalisation of medical judgment may interfere with appropriate medical decision making.
Cervical cancer is one of the most common cancers in women. Mortality rates in sub-Saharan Africa are three times higher than the global average.
Being able to tell the difference between good quality medicines and fakes can be a matter of life and death.
Food insecurity remains a major health problem. And poorer households are disproportionately affected.
Countries must ensure adequate and full immunisation of every child to curb polio mutations.
Over many decades our food environments have relentlessly been encouraging us to make choices that are harmful to our health, through pricing, marketing and availability.
Some commercial products and practices are directly linked to avoidable ill health, planetary damage, and social and health inequity. Large transnational corporations are especially to blame.
Leaders and organisations across Africa need to seriously rethink how they work with young people.
The public bears the suffering and costs of the global epidemic of noncommunicable diseases, and the rapidly accelerating climate emergency.
Neglected tropical diseases of the skin are stigmatised, and may affect an individual’s quality of life
Less than half of the children aged 0-14 who have TB are diagnosed – so they never even start treatment.
Progress in many areas of TB control stalled or reversed mainly because of the COVID-19 pandemic and the recent geo-political situations.
Our understanding of Parkinson’s disease is far from complete. But researchers now believe that in most cases, Parkinson’s is caused by a complex interaction between genetic and environmental factors.
User fees is a major barrier to healthcare, including maternal and newborn care in Kenya.