Local communities are wary of the sudden arrival of outsiders and of their interest in regions where there’s been violence for years
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Sanders was not afraid to challenge and speak out about sensitive and difficult issues, to people in senior positions of power - and when he did, they sat up and listened.
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Over the past two decades digitisation has steadily transformed African farming.
Sites like Agbogbloshie provides a valuable service. They offer opportunities for job creation, profit and cleaning up environments littered with waste.
Policies that will drive investment and change the structure of economies in the West African sub region are facing several challenges.
With limited resources and inadequate infrastructure, African universities appear to be under tremendous strain. But some are beating the odds and getting it right.
We wanted to investigate how the People’s Republic of China and countries in Africa work together in science and technology.
The fact that relative food prices differ so markedly and so systematically provides a very strong rationale for nutrition-focused food policies.
The South African government is going ahead with the National Health Insurance scheme but has yet to detail how it is to be funded. What seems certain is that taxpayers will foot the bill.
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It’s not enough to simply promote healthy eating and exercise without considering South Africa's very real environmental and structural constraints.
If African countries can get the fundamentals right, cloud computing could become a powerful ally in the push for sustainable development.
The emerging relationship between new technologies and Africa may be some of the most promising news for the continent but caution is important.
Governments should change their approach by deepening collaboration with citizens to ensure delivery of urban infrastructure
Most universities focus on teaching basic sciences with little reference to commercialisation of ideas and new technologies.
Lack of access to resources is a big problem for postdoctoral researchers.
Parts of Ethiopia will likely be hotter, drier, and more water stressed - with consequences for human and economic development.
Epidemics can have massive social ramifications where prohibitions are imposed on travel, socio-cultural events and schooling.
Timing is everything when it comes to making a decision about declaring a disease outbreak a public health emergency of international concern.
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The Ebola vaccine alone is not enough to deal with the outbreak in the DRC.
Even a cursory glance at earlier industrial revolutions will show that they have not been associated with the interests of the working or underclasses.
Principais colaboradores
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Senior Fellow, Department of Agricultural Economics, Stellenbosch University
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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
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Research Scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
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Fellow, Nigerian Academy of Science
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Principal Medical Scientist and Head of Laboratory for Antimalarial Resistance Monitoring and Malaria Operational Research, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Research Fellow, Tegemeo Institute, Egerton University
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Sociologist/Criminologist/Victimologist and Media Communication Expert, University of Ibadan
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Medical scientist, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Regional Adviser, Immunisation, WHO Regional Office for Africa, Stellenbosch University
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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
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Professor of Political Science and Chair of the South African Research Initiative in Gender Politics, Stellenbosch University
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Medical Entomologist at the School of Biological Sciences, University of Nairobi
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Fellow, Infrastructure Institute, School of Cities, University of Toronto
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Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Johannesburg
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Professor in the faculty of Medicine, Mbarara University of Science and Technology
