Indigenous beans could enhance food security in Cabo Verde which depends on food imports.
Students from the public school where more than 200 girls were kidnapped by Boko Haram in 2014 on their first day back at the school.
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For anyone who has worked on crop improvement in Africa over the last three decades, the flood of misinformation around vaccines evokes an eerie sense of déjà vu.
Children are eating too much poor nutrient quality food and too little of good nutrient quality food.
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Adolescent girls can contribute to social change, economic growth, sustainable development and peaceful societies. They should be able to live their lives free from violence.
Health workers collect data from a man before taking samples during Kenya’s COVID-19 mass testing exercise.
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A literary icon, her autobiographies offer a way of understanding the country’s brutal past in order to heal and move forward.
The switch to online teaching and learning could be an opportunity to embrace inclusive education and create differentiated online teaching activities.
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South Africa’s constitution provides for equal access to education and its inclusive education policy exists to make this a reality. But in practice students’ diverse needs are not being met.
Pupils weren’t persistent in using a maths app to study the subject after school because were distracted by peers and social media apps.
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High school pupils enjoy using mobile devices for socialising. But their motivation to use devises decreases when it comes to studying online, especially unsupervised.
The stigma on men’s involvement in maternal health is a significant barrier to their participation.
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Men can practically help their partners access care by assisting with the costs of attending clinical appointments such as transportation, health insurance, and meals while on route to the clinic.
The agency will ensure that large water users such as municipalities, public utilities and large companies continue to fund the construction and operation of the large water systems they depend on.
Gas and oil power plants have historically had better success chances than most renewable energy projects.
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South Africa is aiming for 67% coverage, which translates to about 40 million people by the end of 2021.
“We saw patients dying for avoidable reasons. They were dying because masks that came loose were not being replaced,” says MSF COVID-19 intervention nursing activities manager, Caroline Masunda.
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Where there are not enough health workers to deliver medical care, one solution is to move certain tasks to less specialised health workers, a process called task-shifting.
Most healers understand that blood exposure can result in infectious disease transmission.
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For nearly three decades, eastern Congo has been characterised by insecurity, with frequent outbreaks of violence between armed groups and attacks on civilians.
Nigeria must take steps to include 3D printing into science and engineering education in Nigeria.
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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
Principal Medical Scientist and Head of Laboratory for Antimalarial Resistance Monitoring and Malaria Operational Research, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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