Rooibos tea is the first African product to receive EU protected designation. What does this mean for the region where it’s grown?
Healthcare worker, Boitsholo Mfolo, inside the digital x-ray truck at one of Africa Health Research Institute’s mobile screening camps in rural KwaZulu Natal, South Africa.
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South Africa needs a public health response that expands the successes of the country’s HIV testing and treatment programme to provide care for multiple diseases.
Many South Africans live in poor conditions with no access to running water.
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Harsh socio-environmental factors, especially when they happen in the early years of a child’s life, can establish a developmental “biology of misfortune”.
Preventive strategies are the best methods of managing hearing impairment.
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Unidentified or late identified hearing impairment has significant implications for the speech-language, cognitive and scholastic development of the child.
Miners fit a ventilation pipe in an underground platinum mine in South Africa.
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This is a crucial dinosaur for palaeontologists; the variety of fossils available means researchers can study the species’ growth through its whole life span.
A worker cut fabric panels from a material stack at a textile factory in Cape Town. Young South Africans aren’t being given the skills they need.
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The reasons for the hesitancy to donate blood are complex and include a fear of needles and lack of awareness. Awareness and education drives to dispel the fear of donating are important.
South Africa can have a greater number of adequately trained vaccinators if all pharmacists receive the appropriate skills.
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A successful rollout isn’t just about the physical points where people can get the vaccinations. It’s also about having a trained workforce to administer them.
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Sharks grow slowly and produce few young compared to bony fishes. In many cases, this means that their populations are fished out faster than can be replenished if not well managed.
Professor Vishnu Padayachee.
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Vishnu Padayachee’s contribution to economics in South Africa is unmatched.
Goodwill Shivambu smokes a cigarette at Nkowankowa Township during national lockdown on 27 April 2020 in Tzaneen, South Africa.
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South Africa’s approach to smoking doesn’t adequately support current smokers who want to quit.
Workers at a textile factory in Cape Town, South Africa. Differences between wages and executive pay isn’t currently in the public domain.
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Companies being required to go public with information about executive and workers pay packets is increasingly becoming the norm.
Water flows from the Vaal Dam after several sluice gates were opened in February 2021. Heavy rains in the Gauteng province resulted in a spike in dam levels.
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Each province and district in South Africa has allocated persons responsible for investigating adverse events following COVID-19 vaccination.
Delft after protests against the local government. One of South Africa’s first social impact bonds funded a project in the town.
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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