PrEP can reduce the risk of HIV infection by over 90%.
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PrEP enables adolescent girls and young women to protect themselves from HIV without having to convince a partner to use a condom at the time of sex.
The pink periwinkle is used as a tonic and emetic for the treatment of many health conditions.
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Thousands of plant species are used in African traditional medicine. Extracts from some of these plants are part of important pharmaceutical drugs.
Former Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe died in 2019.
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Moore did not unearth any treasures in his research of Mugabe’s legacy. He has not even drawn a map that might lead us to them.
Greywater is used all over the world for domestic and agricultural irrigation.
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Researchers have long argued that greywater could bolster South Africa’s food security if it’s used to water domestic food gardens.
Queen Elizabeth II waves from the balcony of Buckingham Palace during the Platinum Jubilee Pageant.
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The decolonisation process was to take place rapidly during the reign of Elizabeth II.
A farm worker picks medical cannabis flowers in Kasese, Uganda, in 2020.
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Ensuring the participation of ordinary citizens and producers in the industry is the big challenge facing African states.
The author and a colleague on the hunt for fossil traces.
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Collectively, the evidence studied by ichnologists helps to paint a picture of long-gone landscapes and the creatures and plants that populated those spaces.
South Sudanese children play at a refugee camp in northern Uganda.
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Refugee law puts humanitarianism above considerations of state sovereignty.
Refugees and asylum seekers were forced to live in the open in Cape Town following xenophobic attacks in 2019.
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Despite regular incidents of anti-migrant violence, peaceful and mutually beneficial relationships between South Africans and migrants can and do exist.
A Zimbabwean broom vender pushes his bike on the streets of Chitungwiza outside Harare.
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The informal sector in Zimbabwe is massive. Finding ways to connect it to the formal sector is vital.
The farmers’ predicament can’t be viewed in isolation and must be understood within the context of global processes beyond their control.
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The state controls and regulates small farmers’ environmental practices without addressing what forces them to follow these practices.
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Synik’s new album continues to shape identity and consciousness in a country with limited freedom of speech.
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Saponins from plants can destroy viruses and other microorganisms in the same way commercial soaps and detergents do.
In Lesotho, solar panels generate power for households.
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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.
Even if additional energy production capacity was added to the national grid through renewables, questions remain about whether access will be equitable and affordable.
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Continuous growth of energy production and consumption, even from low carbon energy sources, could create more problems than solutions.
Blood feeding female malaria vector Anopheles arabiensis.
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The countries share related populations, economies, ecologies and epidemiologies. This interconnectedness highlights challenges and opportunities for more effective malaria control across the region.
Public transport drivers haggling over currency exchange in Harare, Zimbabwe.
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To kick-start ethical regeneration of Zimbabwean society political leaders need to take the lead in the fight against corrupt and speculative activities.
A group of African woman walking on their way home in Zimbabwe. The informal sector has potential to harness small sustainability benefits.
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Informal economic activities in Norton, Zimbabwe play a part in environmental sustainability and contribute to the town’s financial sustainability.
Zimbabwe holds important lessons for the COP26 global climate change talks.
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The focus of climate talks has been on how little time is left is for global action. But climate change has already made tobacco farming, potentially a route out of poverty, unviable for some.
Women continue to fetch wood and cook over smoky fires even where there are solar home systems.
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Developments in the energy sector shouldn’t be reduced to technological sophistication. They should be guided by how they improve the livelihoods of the intended beneficiaries.