Joblessness has become a fixture of the South African economy. Understanding the patterns of who is out of work and for how long is key to designing policies to address the problem.
Children are eating too much poor nutrient quality food and too little of good nutrient quality food.
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The availability of data by sex and gender is important for national responses when it comes to prevention, treatment and control.
The switch to online teaching and learning could be an opportunity to embrace inclusive education and create differentiated online teaching activities.
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South Africa’s constitution provides for equal access to education and its inclusive education policy exists to make this a reality. But in practice students’ diverse needs are not being met.
The agency will ensure that large water users such as municipalities, public utilities and large companies continue to fund the construction and operation of the large water systems they depend on.
In some African countries, lion trophy hunting is legal.
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Debates centred on the role of recreational hunting in supporting nature conservation and local people’s livelihoods are among the most polarising in conservation today.
Healthcare workers around the country are getting the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine.
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South Africa is aiming for 67% coverage, which translates to about 40 million people by the end of 2021.
“We saw patients dying for avoidable reasons. They were dying because masks that came loose were not being replaced,” says MSF COVID-19 intervention nursing activities manager, Caroline Masunda.
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Where there are not enough health workers to deliver medical care, one solution is to move certain tasks to less specialised health workers, a process called task-shifting.
Most healers understand that blood exposure can result in infectious disease transmission.
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An average healer in the rural South African town where the study was done experiences about 1,500 occupational blood exposures in their lifetime.
A medic administers a COVID-19 vaccine in Mumbai. India and South Africa have led efforts to get a waiver on intellectual property rights.
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A waiver may not allow all developing countries to secure medicines and other anti-COVID technologies in a timely way.
This week South Africa’s finance minister Tito Mboweni will deliver the country’s medium term budget review.
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It seems the production of Earth science knowledge in Africa is simply not progressing, despite the world’s interest in (and exploitation of) the continent’s mineral wealth.
Clinical trials with human volunteers done in South Africa must get approval from the health products regulator.
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Advocates for medicines that are unregistered in South Africa have accused the regulatory authority of not being proactive in bringing such products to market and approving their use.
When women do science, society benefits in myriad ways.
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Negotiating for the fair treatment of study participants and benefit sharing before a study commences does not constitute an unfair inducement. It is an ethical imperative.
High blood pressure in South Africa is expected to increase as the population ages.
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Current blood pressure targets are based on information from high-income countries. This might mean that these targets are not ideal for South Africans.
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