Vaccine hesitancy has resulted in multiple vaccine-preventable disease outbreaks. Research on vaccine hesitancy in South Africa is limited. But growing evidence suggests that it’s becoming a problem.
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A study of the historical records describing African slaves in Brazil yields some unexpected findings.
When a pandemic hits, questions that immediately arise include what impact there will be on public health, the economy and other aspects of society. Another set of questions involves response priorities…
Labour migrants from other provinces into Gauteng and the Western Cape are more likely to be employed than the two provinces’ permanent residents.
The new conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray region could be the tipping point for foreign investors in the garment industry.
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Nigeria needs a coherent plan to get COVID-19 vaccines.
If South Africa is serious about being able to supply anti-pandemic vaccines in future, it needs to rethink the scale of financial, technical and strategic investment into vaccine production.
African leaders can make strategies to fight COVID-19 more accessible to the people.
COVID-19 restrictions created life-threatening challenges to female sex workers as they weren’t able to access their medication, support or their clients.
The African Vaccine Acquisition Task Team recently secured a provisional 270 million vaccine doses for African countries.
Based on what we currently know about the density of giant radio galaxies in the sky, the probability of finding two of them in this region is extremely small.
The health and wellbeing effects will go beyond the direct impact of war-related fatalities, and are likely to last for years after peace is fully restored.
African evangelism is born from – and often funded by – American evangelism, and with it comes a damaging cocktail of rightwing ideologies, especially during the Donald Trump years.
Although Niger’s quest for entrenching democracy is a good development, poverty and insecurity are obstacles.
Critics of the South African government argue that it has done too little too late to secure vaccines, and that it doesn’t have a proper plan in place for rollout.
Many countries cannot afford to buy existing COVID-19 vaccines, a collective approach is needed.
To improve the security of park guards and other people, it is crucial to mitigate park-people conflicts and tackle armed groups.
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It’s unlikely South Africa will have a substantial number of vaccines until the second half of this year. Most of the vaccines produced in Europe or America have been bought by other countries.
Creating a space where people feel safe to voice opinions, make mistakes and risk ridicule when offering an idea can have a significant effect on teams.
While internet penetration is increasing in Nigeria, State Houses of Assembly have little or no online presence, this ought to change.
Opposition presidential candidate Robert Kyangulanyi has repeatedly been underestimated by government supporters and critics since he first ran for parliament.
Never has a political contest in Uganda’s history been so furiously played out in the media space as the 2021 national elections.
Research assistants and associates from the global South are sometimes kept invisible, despite their crucial role in the research cycle.
Cape astronomers were responsible for, among other things, the first measurement of the distance to a star; the first photographic sky survey and the accurate measurement of the distance to the sun.
Local and national governments in west and central African countries must prioritise investment in providing access to HIV testing for all pregnant women.