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How are tests developed for a specific virus and how does a country get the test kits it needs?
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Nigerian society has drilled into everyone that certain top roles are reserved for men.
The clock is ticking: in the absence of government support, not being able to work means waste reclaimers don’t have money to buy food.
Nigeria’s reliance on drug importation is worrisome as COVID-19 pandemic rages.
To support precarious households that can’t access existing relief during lockdown and its aftermath, the government should implement a temporary increase in the value of the child support grant.
Models can predict the risk and spread of diseases and establish the time and place to implement optimal prevention and control mechanisms.
The coronavirus is stressing the continent’s aviation sector.
Effective public health response to a pandemic, depends on the availability of a stable power supply system.
The survival resource of the world’s most vulnerable people – their social networks – may become compromised
The consequences will be far more severe and long lasting in poorer countries.
The molecular based tests used to detect SARS-CoV-2 are very specific but can take two to three days to process and produce a result.
What is needed is the calm implementation of a clear and effective strategy.
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Initiatives to develop a vaccine for COVID-19 are under way. But how far away are they?
Already, we have seen a range of responses globally - from countries that apparently reacted too late, to those who acted relatively early.
Very little is known about the relationship between COVID-19 and HIV and TB. What is known is that people’s lungs are affected by all three.
Could the 1889-1890 pandemic have been the result of cow coronaviruses jumping to humans?
The immediate need to “track and trace” infections for public health purposes poses an unprecedented challenge to privacy.
Scientists need greater understanding of the bacterium’s basic biology, as well as more about how it is spread from one individual to the next.
Epidemiology is only one of the inputs that should be considered in designing public health policy response to COVID-19 pandemic. The wider social and economic contexts must be factored in too.
The agents causing illness do not care for our assumptions about our alleged superiority on the planet, nor do they discriminate.
Top contributors
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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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Research Fellow, Tegemeo Institute, Egerton University
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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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Regional Adviser, Immunisation, WHO Regional Office for Africa, Stellenbosch 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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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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Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Johannesburg
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Professor of Social Development Studies, 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
