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South Africa’s lockdown rules started with high legitimacy. But it has been eroded and has now dissolved.
Removing social medicine from the education of medical students would be to their detriment - as well as their future patients.
The judgment creates a new layer of uncertainty in an already highly fluid situation and heaps further unwelcome pressure onto government.
When South Africa eventually emerges from the fog of the COVID-19 crisis, structural reform, including land reform, will be high on the political agenda as never before.
A continuous lock down is detrimental to Nigeria’s large population of people living below poverty lines, but lifting the restrictions without a proper plan is equally dangerous. Here’s what to do.
Precautions must be taken to realise the full advantage of the benefits associated with trees.
Rapid industrialisation and infrastructure development in developing countries have propelled the growth of the nonylphenol market.
The hard truth is that the more the isolation is contained, the greater the economic problems will be.
There is need for evidence that the virus is being suppressed.
The president’s handling of the pandemic has been one of the more eccentric on the continent.
With the advent of novel tobacco products and the tobacco industry falsely marketing them as less harmful, the adage “prevention is better than cure” has never been more important.
According to the estimates by the World Health Organisation, Africa is one of two regions – along with the Eastern Mediterranean region – where smoking rates are on the rise.
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It's important for people to seek proper information about the coronavirus and not believe everything they see and hear on social media.
South Africa’s post-apartheid leaders have failed to properly prepare the military for secondary roles such as peacekeeping, let alone to a fight a virus.
Challenges that women and girls in low-income areas face have been worsened by measures taken to slow the spread of COVID-19.
South Africa’s management of the COVID-19 pandemic must now shift from a centrally regulated approach to one that enables participation and compliance by communities, workers and businesses.
Africa needs to be better prepared to deal with future pandemics. That should start with a re-assessment of how countries invest in – and support – local research.
This is the first time that camel handlers in East Africa have been shown to have been exposed to MERS.
How sea water circulates underneath Antarctic ice shelves is a vital missing link in climate change projections.
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
