Recent urban disasters in Ethiopia and Mozambique resulted in high female mortality, which was been largely ignored.
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Nairobi’s new governor should learn from the mistakes of the past
A deal brokered by Ethiopia to develop the port at Berbera will have a ripple effect across the Horn of Africa.
Kenya spends millions treating women who have complications after unsafe abortions.
Health authorities have raised the alarm after several cases of human rabies were reported in a space of four months.
A new threat to vultures is emerging: lead poisoning from ammunition used by game hunters.
The bacterial pathogen that is responsible for listeriosis can survive under even the toughest conditions.
In Uganda, essential medicines are not being stocked at facilities that need them most. This includes drugs to treat chronic diseases.
Adequate and quality childcare determines women’s participation in the labour force and the type of work they can take on.
Kenya has managed to reduce the number of malaria cases in parts of the country. But this, in turn, has led to immunity levels dropping.
Instead of causing problems for farmers, carnivores could actually be beneficial by controlling rodent pests.
Numerous traditional African medicines are undeniably beneficial in treating disease or maintaining good health.
The tale of an unsung South African hero in the field of community health.
The beetle and the fungus have devastated trees in California in the US as well as in Israel. Now they’re in South Africa.
In the future, traps for mosquito that spread the dengue and chikungunya virus could be made from the carbon dioxide in human breathe as well as body odour.
If researchers want to make an impact on public health they can’t just have a thorough grounding in their own discipline.
In periods of water stress, farmers need support, research assistance and empathy from governments and competing water users.
Remarkable progress is being made on HIV treatment. But African countries need to work on sustainable ways to ensure the treatment programmes are not entirely dependent on foreign aid.
There are many benefits to walking - whether you do it in a group or on your own.
Setting up 24 hour clinics in a busy metropole such as Johannesburg would help those who need health care most.
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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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Sociologist/Criminologist/Victimologist and Media Communication Expert, University of Ibadan
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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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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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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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Medical Entomologist at the School of Biological Sciences, University of Nairobi
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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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Professor of Social Development Studies, University of Johannesburg
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Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Johannesburg
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Fellow, Infrastructure Institute, School of Cities, University of Toronto
