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Whereas digital work can bring freedom and flexibility into the lives of workers in Africa, it can also contribute towards their precarity and vulnerability.
Facing a growing bias against indigenous crops, Kenyan researchers set out to showcase the value in local options - and set a global standard.
Unresolved historical injustices, deepened in new forms, undermined compliance with Ghana’s COVID lockdown.
People want to talk about how they conceptualise good health as much as they want to explain what caused them to become sick.
Doctors and nurses fear arrests and being charged with culpable homicide even for minor mistakes.
Chinese private investments in Ethiopia are highly diverse, fluid and complex.
The study indicates that social media platforms are central to how young adults make sense of COVID-19 news and messages.
With the manufacturing capacity and access to relevant technology, African countries can reduce their dependency on international manufacturers for vaccines.
Income plays a large role in shaping the structural barriers people face in accessing vaccination.
One of the consequences of the failure of developing countries like South Africa to authorise self-testing is that it is driving a thriving black market.
L'attrait de la sécheresse comme explication de la faim est qu'elle supprime toute culpabilité aux décideurs politiques.
Fisheries agreements favour the European Union and don’t do enough to protect African interests.
Food security has six dimensions: availability, access, stability, utilisation, agency and sustainability.
A regulatory approach will place an unnecessary burden on bio-innovators. This will discourage local investment for in-house R&D, as well as projects in the public sector.
Emerging evidence shows that, for young people, the effects of COVID on education have already been devastating.
South Africa is still likely to experience periods of increased cases, smaller-scale outbreaks and even the development of new variants.
Dietary guidelines can do a better job clarifying the differences between beneficial and harmful forms of processing.
The industry is in the hands of smallholder farmers who struggle to raise capital and practise good farming.
International epidemic management involves ceding to foreign experts who possess, at best, a surface-level understanding of a very complex region.
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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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Senior Fellow, Department of Agricultural Economics, Stellenbosch University
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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 in the faculty of Medicine, Mbarara University of Science and Technology
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Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Johannesburg
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Pro Vice-Chancellor: Climate, Sustainability and Inequality and Director: Southern Centre for Inequality Studies., University of the Witwatersrand
