Quantifying the financial costs of overweight and obesity is important for national policy.
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Lowering obesity and overweight rates will lift the burden on healthcare spending.
South Africa’s water situation is a complex issue.
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South Africa’s water situation is complex. It needs better monitoring and implementation of plans.
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The study analysed the content of six news outlets from 1994 to 2014, looking at how core socio-economic issues were reported.
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
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The global realignment triggered by the end of the Cold War and Gorbachev’s reforms ushered in a period of transition on the African continent.
Esther Gwena, an untrained midwife in Mbare Harare.
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The future is bleak for Zimbabwe’s healthcare unless there are serious long-term reforms to build resilience.
Mikhail Gorbachev at his news conference following a summit with US President Ronald Reagan in Reykjavik, Iceland in 1986.
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External changes, including the end of the Cold War, helped lead to the ending of apartheid. Gorbachev played a major role in that process.
South Africa needs to develop and produce its own vaccines to protect cloven-hoofed animals from foot-and-mouth disease.
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Foot-and-mouth disease rarely kills animals, but it leads to production losses and economic knocks.
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If women see other women pursuing and being successful in an entrepreneurial environment, they are more likely to follow that path themselves.
Ongoing conflicts in many countries mean that women will continue to seek protection in South Africa.
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The continuing precarity and vulnerability to violence has long term consequences for these women’s health and well-being.
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Activists and scholars must rethink their neglect of male victims if South Africa is to better understand and resist sexual violence.
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There is a useful set of steps to follow to help the transfer of technological innovations to entrepreneurs who can put them into use.
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People in South Africa felt anxious and stressed during the COVID-19 lockdown.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, second from right, ran the investigation that led to former President Donald Trump’s indictment.
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Both sweeping immunity and overzealous prosecutions of former leaders can undermine democracy. But such prosecutions pose different risks for older democracies like the US than in younger ones.
People with intellectual disability are entitled to their human rights like everyone else.
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The lack of sexuality education, and common myths and misconceptions about the sexuality of people with intellectual disability can lead to caregivers being reluctant ‘jailers’.
New remedies are needed as rates of multi-drug resistant TB rise.
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As antibiotics lose their power to treat some forms of TB, interest in the antibacterial powers of curdlan is rising.
Quality of care thresholds at health facilities in South Africa are on the rise.
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The number and value of medico-legal claims has increased.
Employees work on manufacturing a car at a Volkswagen plant in Uitenhage, South Africa.
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South Africa should ensure that changes to energy efficient vehicles is done in a way that creates jobs and protects workers.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken setting out Washington’s new Africa strategy at the University of Pretoria.
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The strategy outlined by the US Secretary of State marks a fresh beginning in US-Africa relations.
US secretary of state Antony Blinken.
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The meetings between Blinken and his South African counterpart Naledi Pandor could help iron out misunderstandings about the intent of the US targeting Russian ‘malign’ activities in Africa.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced a new plan to end South Africa’s energy crisis.
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The impression that’s been created is that political will is the only ingredient missing in fixing South Africa’s electricity crisis. But this is simplistic.