Factors such as having supportive family and friends, safer communities, positive school environments and adequate resources, are often associated with more physical activity.
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Simply put, southern Africans are experiencing heat stress more often than in 1979.
Machine learning techniques showed that individual identity is important to spotted hyenas.
The findings suggest that poaching rates are lower where there is strong national governance and levels of local human development are higher.
Scientists join their profession with the hope their research will benefit humanity. But many still inadvertently exploit local collaborators or communities as cheap labour.
African wild dogs are adapting to rising temperatures using a cue that no longer accurately predicts the best conditions for reproduction.
Patients with low HIV viral loads are just as likely to harbour HIV variants with drug resistance mutations as those with high viral loads.
Instruction through mobile phones can provide an effective, scalable method to provide education instruction when schooling is disrupted.
Thousands of plant species are used in African traditional medicine. Extracts from some of these plants are part of important pharmaceutical drugs.
Collectively, the evidence studied by ichnologists helps to paint a picture of long-gone landscapes and the creatures and plants that populated those spaces.
Sub-Saharan Africa is one of the world’s most sunlit regions. A prototype generator uses that sunlight in place of diesel to support unreliable electricity grids.
There’s a new COVID lineage called B.1.1.529. It has a genetic profile very different from other circulating variants
The countries share related populations, economies, ecologies and epidemiologies. This interconnectedness highlights challenges and opportunities for more effective malaria control across the region.
Smaller diamonds are so common that some can be purchased for cheaper than a tank of petrol. Larger diamonds are an entirely different story.
Countries have adopted a wide array of measures involving a proliferation of fraud agencies.
The Southern African Development Community does not have a remarkable record of military interventions in civil conflicts in the region.
Without reliable, local and timely data, countries will miss the potential of sugar-sweetened beverage taxation as a public health intervention.
Implementing a sugar-sweetened beverage tax in all African countries will require sufficient political will and support from civil society.
A new review of the status of African elephants finds scientific grounds for dividing them into two species, and reports that both have suffered drastic population declines since 1990.
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.
Principales colaboradores
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Senior Research Associate, Institute for the Future of Knowledge, University of Johannesburg
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Professor of Democracy, University of Birmingham
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Professor, North-West University
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Honorary Research Fellow, La Trobe 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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UP ISMC: Project Manager and Coordinator, University of Pretoria
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Yarik Turianskyi is Manager of the Governance and African Peer Review Mechanism Programme at the South African Institute of International Affairs and guest lecturer in African Governance and Eastern European Politics, University of Pretoria
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Research Fellow at the Centre for Social Sciences Research (CSSR)/Afrobarometer Assistant Project Manager for Southern Africa, University of Cape Town
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Visiting Professor, University of Kent
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Director and Professor of International Human Rights Law, Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria
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Senior lecturer in Paediatrics and Child Health, Stellenbosch University
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Senior Lecturer, Education, Arts, Literacies, University of Glasgow
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Assistant Professor, Harvard University
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Senior researcher, University of the Witwatersrand
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Dean: Faculty of Health Sciences and Director: UP Institute for Sustainable Malaria Control, University of Pretoria
