South Africa’s planned NHI has no equivalent in any setting in the world. It’s deeply flawed on a number of fronts.
Academic rigour, journalistic flair
Articles on RandD
Displaying 2281 - 2300 of 3020 articles
Trachoma is the leading cause of preventable blindness.
High-income country experts and institutions are valued more than expertise in low- and middle-income countries.
Ghana’s quest to fill a significant infrastructure deficit has led to a barter deal with China that threatens one of West Africa’s most important environmental spaces.
Expansion of cashew production for export poses potential challenges particularly around food security
CC BY-NC-ND5.04 MB (download)
The current Ebola outbreak in the DRC is incredibly difficult to manage.
Achieving the sustainable development goals on education in Ghana requires efficient resource allocation, not necessarily more money.
Corruption includes both what people do and what they fail to do. The critical issue is a person’s motive.
Interventions to prevent and address sexual and gender-based violence in eastern DR Congo often reinforce traditional gender stereotypes
The DRC president’s direct involvement can rally people who have previously doubted the reality of the outbreak.
Do African decision-makers and leaders approach crises differently from counterparts elsewhere in the world?
Tissue engineering and regenerative medicine is based on three key requirements working together: signals from body tissues and organs, responding stem cells, and scaffolds.
CC BY-NC-ND4.87 MB (download)
Quantum machine learning is an exciting, rapidly growing field.
South Africa’s data collection is constantly improving. That’s especially true when it comes to metrics that weren’t collected or were distorted for political purposes during apartheid.
Uganda is the testing ground for a new vaccine that could work on more strains of the Ebola virus and other haemorrhagic fevers.
We found that women who had access to subsidised day-care services were 17% more likely to be employed than those who were not.
Ghana’s experience is a cautionary tale for countries that find themselves in a situation of having too much electricity at any given point.
The world of the fourth industrial revolution looks set to be one dominated by forms of knowledge and industries – like science and technology – that have long been dominated by men.
Feminists in Africa must step up to the challenge and redress the manner in which African women are portrayed in the digital age.
Women were able to pursue an impressive feminist agenda as South Africa made its transition to democracy. But 25 years later there’s not a lot left of the early victories.
Job Board
-
Chief Operating Officer (COO)
-
Technical Assistant - Metabolomics
-
Data Manager
-
Director, Social Policy
-
Head, School of Psychology
Top contributors
-
Senior Fellow, Department of Agricultural Economics, Stellenbosch University
-
Dean Faculty of Health Sciences and Professor of Vaccinology at University of the Witwatersrand; and Director of the SAMRC Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Analytics Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand
-
Research Scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
-
Fellow, Nigerian Academy of Science
-
Principal Medical Scientist and Head of Laboratory for Antimalarial Resistance Monitoring and Malaria Operational Research, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
-
Research Fellow, Tegemeo Institute, Egerton University
-
Sociologist/Criminologist/Victimologist and Media Communication Expert, University of Ibadan
-
Medical scientist, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
-
Regional Adviser, Immunisation, WHO Regional Office for Africa, Stellenbosch University
-
Professor and Programme Director, SA MRC Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science - PRICELESS SA (Priority Cost Effective Lessons in Systems Strengthening South Africa), University of the Witwatersrand
-
Professor of Political Science and Chair of the South African Research Initiative in Gender Politics, Stellenbosch University
-
Medical Entomologist at the School of Biological Sciences, University of Nairobi
-
Fellow, Infrastructure Institute, School of Cities, University of Toronto
-
Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Johannesburg
-
Professor in the faculty of Medicine, Mbarara University of Science and Technology
