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The ravages of climate change and hunger do not occur in isolation, but are part of the system we have built.
Climate change is affecting the availability of food to the families of farmers in Ghana.
As US-Africa leaders meet, it should be clear that aligning respective goals, priorities and actions is in the interests of the US and of African countries.
Services such as chemotherapy are only available in tertiary hospitals located in the country’s urban centres. Transport to these hospitals can be a barrier to care.
The interests of bandits and jihadists are converging in Nigeria and this poses a formidable threat to the country’s security.
Interventions against intimate partner violence may work better if they target the mechanisms that make empathic women more vulnerable.
Reductions in the affordability of cigarettes will ensure significant reductions in tobacco use.
DDT accumulates in wildlife and magnifies up the food chain. Birds of prey occupy the top of these food chains in various ecosystems.
There are several reasons that TB patients don’t or can’t adhere to their treatment.
Some vulnerable populations may have fallen through the cracks despite efforts to improve access to HIV services during the pandemic in Nigeria.
The individual stories of migrant women are essential in understanding if HIV healthcare strategies and programmes are working.
Experts across the board have identified inequality as a major challenge to efforts to end AIDS.
The overcrowded conditions of prisons make them a high-risk environment for the spread of infectious diseases such as TB.
South Africa had one of the best national gender machineries globally. But, these were dismantled and replaced with a dysfunctional ministry for women, youth and people with disabilities.
The benefit of an injectable product is that it avoids the adherence issues related to taking a pill daily.
Some countries, like Kenya, Uganda, South Africa, Zambia, and Nigeria, have been more proactive than others, but it is still hard for many to get PrEP.
Indiscriminate antimicrobial use in Nigeria’s poultry value chain is putting people at risk of developing resistance to medicines.
A new exhibition in Johannesburg focuses on the beliefs and paintings of the San people.
As the world’s population ages, cheap, durable and safe artificial limbs will become ever more important.
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