Models can predict the risk and spread of diseases and establish the time and place to implement optimal prevention and control mechanisms.
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Peacebuilding – Analyses
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
Moi’s university policies aimed at engineering a social transformation by providing opportunities to the excluded groups.
The consequences will be far more severe and long lasting in poorer countries.
The notion that there is a binary choice between the economy and the medically optimal strategy is wrong.
The Nile Treaties prevent upstream countries from using the waters of the Nile without the consent of those downstream. This results in an Egyptian bias.
The immediate need to “track and trace” infections for public health purposes poses an unprecedented challenge to privacy.
Frequently used phrases to frame discussion about Chinese capital in Africa don’t allow for the interrogation of the actual behaviour, practices and possibilities of Chinese capital.
Remaining nonviolent despite enormous provocation made it difficult for the regime to depict the movement in a negative light
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.
Since 2010 the number of Kenyans going hungry has been growing. The country now suffers from serious levels of hunger
Recently, the Kano State government in the north west region of Nigeria removed the Emir, the first highly westernised and educated person on the throne.
Social distancing is impossible in much of Africa, and its economic consequences may lead to a famine that is worse than the pandemic. Prevention measures must consider the African context.
Many informal workers will not be able to take the precautions that health authorities suggest.
Most consumers in South Africa aren’t able to fill up a trolley of groceries for their daily needs, let alone join the panic buying induced by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Reactions in South Africa give little reason for hope that the virus will bring people closer together or trigger more energetic action against poverty.
Fifty years after the Biafran war, the massacre in Asaba in the south-south region of Nigeria is still a highly sensitive issue.
Women must be included at decision making levels to advise on development, designing, delivery and implementation of tools that target health issues that affect them especially malaria.
The hunger, frustration and desperation of ordinary Namibians should be first on the political agenda. But this isn’t the case.
The economic impact of the disease will have dramatic effects on the well-being of families and communities
Governments must take note of specific geographic contexts and local attributes that drive water insecurity.
The school playground is not just a place to have fun. It’s an important space to claim power and this is often done through violence.
Climate pledges must be more ambitious and focus on early and aggressive action to deal with global emissions.