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The number of smokers in Africa is on the rise. Research calculates the effect of tax-led price increases on the smoking habits of young people.
Cape Town’s storms caused severe flooding and extreme winds that fan wildfires. Early warning systems are important in protecting people from these dangers.
Digital technologies can help more people to participate in building their countries’ democracies.
Social media platforms need to open up data to Africans and researchers in the global south.
Kenya, Ethiopia, Djibouti, South Sudan and Uganda are investigating whether deep groundwater bores could support drought stricken communities. Could a networked approach help?
Women are constantly battling stereotypes that seek to maintain the status quo of male dominance in political spaces.
Pigs, specifically those weighing around 60kg, are useful in human decomposition studies.
Germaine Acogny has risen as a female artist who has defied stereotypes to become one of the world’s most revered dance makers.
Sweet sorghum has multipurpose post-harvest uses. It can produce grains, animal feed and sugary juice, making it unique among crops.
Some students with hearing difficulties feel lonely and excluded from daily campus life.
Africa’s most dangerous snakes not only kill their victims, they can also destroy skin, muscle, and even bone. New drugs could limit these wounds.
Baby corals may hold promise for building coral reef resilience in Seychelles and beyond.
Mosquito populations can respond quickly to changing climate, which means the location of areas at risk of malaria might change.
Indigenous people’s concerns and considerations could provide a strong basis for climate litigation in South Africa.
Hepatitis E is a global health problem with about 20 million cases occurring annually, three million symptomatic cases, and 60,000 deaths.
Ghana is losing forests because of cocoa farming, firewood harvesting, mining and logging.
To eliminate female genital mutilation by 2030, progress would need to be 27 times faster. Understanding shifting trends behind this practice is a start.
Child-directed educational technology can deliver high quality education for millions of marginalised children worldwide.
In Madagascar, communities and scientists are growing tens of thousands of baobab seedlings to restore the 1,000-year-old forests.
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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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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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Sociologist/Criminologist/Victimologist and Media Communication Expert, University of Ibadan
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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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Professor of Political Science and Chair of the South African Research Initiative in Gender Politics, Stellenbosch University
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Medical Entomologist at the School of Biological Sciences, University of Nairobi
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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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Fellow, Infrastructure Institute, School of Cities, University of Toronto
