The provision of better health services and social grants has aided rural women’s progress in South Africa, but there are still tremendous needs to be met.
South Africa has extended COVID-19 vaccination to adolescents between 12 and 17 years old.
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Countries like the United States, Denmark, Germany, Spain and Switzerland have already vaccinated many millions of adolescents and their experience will guide countries that follow suit.
Forecasts are key to mitigating the worst effects of floods.
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New technologies can help reduce the cost of producing maps that warn where floods might happen.
A woman with her baby collects her household goods in front of her newly built shack in Khayelitsha, outside Cape Town.
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Pregnant women and mothers of infants are at a higher risk of experiencing depression because of increased pressures they face economically, in their relationships, with their families, and socially.
South Africa’s current basic education system and the grading standard produce poor academic quality.
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South Africa’s Department of Basic Education is more concerned about the proportion of pupils that pass to make school leavers and their parents happy.
Studying ancient DNA in Africa is valuable for understanding human evolution, population migrations, and human history locally, regionally and globally.
The growth in tobacco use in Africa is a potential public health catastrophe.
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Globally, about 1 million deaths annually are related to exposure to second-hand smoke. Thirteen African countries have implemented comprehensive smoke-free bans.
COVID-19 forced the rapid upskilling of academics and students to teach and learn remotely in ways unfamiliar to most.
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The shift to emergency remote teaching and learning enabled academics to start questioning some long-held assumptions about in-person teaching and learning.
Food is prepared by a South African non-profit to feed over 87 000 people in underprivileged communities at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in Cape Town in 2020.
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Instead of asking, ‘How can teenage pregnancies be prevented?’, the following question should be posed: ‘How can reproductive injustices in relation to young women be reduced?
Contributing to global knowledge, from the lens of local experience, can lead to solutions to universal problems such as inequality and climate change.
South Africa’s youth unemployment tax incentive is effectively a subsidy to the profits of companies.
A vaccination done at a pop-up site in Johannesburg. Not enough South Africans are coming forward to get their shots.
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Domestic dogs have been shown to be the only species necessary to maintain rabies across most of Africa. This means that dog vaccination should control the disease in all species.
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