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Car-free days could work in Nairobi where traffic, congestion and air pollution is a real problem.
Religious and cultural beliefs play a role in the country’s organ donor shortages. But these factors alone grossly oversimplifies the issue.
The National Tobacco Control Act gives the tobacco industry inside access to the decision making process.
Women entrepreneurs in Africa struggle to obtain credit, and to access entrepreneurship education.
A plastic bag has an average usage time of 20 minutes, while it can take up to 1000 years to break down in the environment.
If women don’t have access to quality emergency surgery, they can develop dibilitating complications such as fistula.
Data suggest that people are living many years in poor health in Africa.
The value of green technologies and systems is that they are largely decentralised or semi-decentralised.
Instability in the DRC and Ebola’s deadly properties is making it hard to contain the virus.
Medium-scale farms are an important driver of agricultural and rural transformation in much of Africa.
How is pain measured? A person’s pain is what they say it is.
It could be a matter of days before the ebola epidemic in the DRC spreads to urban centres or spills over into neighbouring countries.
Well resourced and empowered nurses could help to quickly spread universal health care.
New media platforms have changed the way people create, consume and relate the news.
Human Rights Day might not be a reason for celebrations. But it’s a useful reminder of what’s been achieved over 70 years.
The awarding of the Nobel Prize for Peace to Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad should strengthen efforts against the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war.
School children with attention-deficit/ hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have limited access to care in South Africa’s education and health sectors.
Self-examination DNA collection techniques can help women bring the perpetrators of sexual violence to justice.
New guidelines have been launched that make recommendations on the daily activities of babies and young children.
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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
