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The novel coronavirus has necessitated judicial reforms that should have been the norm.
With recent calls for their use in combating COVID-19, there are concerns that chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine might become unavailable to people who need them.
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Taking a look at food supply chains in South Africa during the lockdown.
COVID-19 is a plague not merely on the happiness that comes with health and wealth, but also on the meaning in our lives.
Unlike in wealthy nations, lockdowns are simply impossible in overcrowded conditions with no sanitation and high levels of poverty.
Interventions seen to originate in the West frequently spark suspicion in northern Nigeria.
Adequate numbers of healthy and motivated health professionals are also critical to governments’ effective responses to public health emergencies such as COVID-19.
Findings that are effectively communicated can go a long way to serve the interests of the public. They can help to address social injustices or improve treatments offered to patients.
It is not all democracies that struggle to deal with the coronavirus; it is those in which the people do not feel the system works for them.
And why development funders should listen to smallholder farmers
A third of South African children live below the food poverty line. The fact that many caregivers can’t work because of the lockdown will worsen food insecurity. Here’s what needs to be done.
Some of the false claims about coronavirus may be harmless. But others can be potentially dangerous.
The current lockdown in Zimbabwe is going to provide a stern test for its informal economy, which is the country’s dominant economy and employs 90% of people.
South Africa must develop a comprehensive health and economic strategy if it is to stop the COVID-19 pandemic without causing long term socio-economic damage.
Africa is better prepared now to perform research in emerging infections than during the Ebola epidemics in West Africa.
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It is important for information on the coronavirus to be put out in a balanced and fair manner.
Instead of seeking to protect our health and stop the coronavirus epidemic by instituting totalitarian surveillance regimes, we should rather focus on empowering citizens.
The principle of distributive justice will be stretched to its limits if the outbreak in South Africa mimics that in other settings.
Verbal and physical abuse appeared to be an expression of both helplessness and an exercise of power.
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