High poverty levels mean people lack access to land and work and they are often driven to settle in zones that are exposed to natural hazards.
Rigor académico, oficio periodístico
Artículos sobre RandD
Mostrando 2421 - 2440 de 2987 artículos
Botswana’s High Court could finally decriminalise same-sex relations.
Science is not the absolute truth. Scientific findings are the beginning, not the end, of the quest for truth.
Community-based HIV programmes helps improve access to health care.
The lengthy nature of some of Africa’s wars is one of the main hindrances to ending the “refugee cycle”.
Foot-and-mouth disease vaccines have been successful in several parts of the world. But in Tanzania it’s not that easy.
Children whose families benefit from social grants and family support interventions enjoy better health, nutrition and schooling.
In sub-Saharan Africa there are more people with mobile phones than access to electricity, and their data could be useful.
CC BY-NC-ND6,58 MB (download)
It's increasingly difficult to manage diseases in inner cities.
South Africa needs to continue public awareness campaigns to reduce excessive salt intake to protect cardiovascular health.
Ethiopia’s teff plant is gluten-free and demand is growing. The country needs to upgrade its harvesting to reap the rewards.
With proper regulation, Lake Victoria’s fisheries could increase production without damaging wild stocks or the environment.
Fast-food outlets outnumber healthy food stores in South Africa’s Gauteng province.
Four new Ebola treatments are being tried out in the DRC.
Uganda’s tourism ministry has launched a beauty pageant to use local women to attract tourists.
The visibility of #MeToo makes it easy to overlook the very powerful campaigns against sexual violence in Africa.
Warthogs are an important species in managing bovine TB.
If the pattern of drought continues in South Africa it’s likely to affect the country’s financial standing too.
Nigeria, like many emerging countries, needs to educate its women at the same rate it does its men to enhance entrepreneurship.
CC BY-NC-ND6,04 MB (download)
Pregnant teens in Kenya face a number of challenges.
Principales colaboradores
-
Senior Fellow, Department of Agricultural Economics, Stellenbosch University
-
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
-
Research Scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
-
Fellow, Nigerian Academy of Science
-
Sociologist/Criminologist/Victimologist and Media Communication Expert, University of Ibadan
-
Principal Medical Scientist and Head of Laboratory for Antimalarial Resistance Monitoring and Malaria Operational Research, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
-
Research Fellow, Tegemeo Institute, Egerton University
-
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
-
Medical scientist, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
-
Regional Adviser, Immunisation, WHO Regional Office for Africa, Stellenbosch University
-
Medical Entomologist at the School of Biological Sciences, University of Nairobi
-
Professor of Political Science and Chair of the South African Research Initiative in Gender Politics, Stellenbosch University
-
Professor of Social Development Studies, University of Johannesburg
-
Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Johannesburg
-
Fellow, Infrastructure Institute, School of Cities, University of Toronto
