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The survival resource of the world’s most vulnerable people – their social networks – may become compromised
The consequences will be far more severe and long lasting in poorer countries.
The molecular based tests used to detect SARS-CoV-2 are very specific but can take two to three days to process and produce a result.
What is needed is the calm implementation of a clear and effective strategy.
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Initiatives to develop a vaccine for COVID-19 are under way. But how far away are they?
Already, we have seen a range of responses globally - from countries that apparently reacted too late, to those who acted relatively early.
Very little is known about the relationship between COVID-19 and HIV and TB. What is known is that people’s lungs are affected by all three.
Could the 1889-1890 pandemic have been the result of cow coronaviruses jumping to humans?
The immediate need to “track and trace” infections for public health purposes poses an unprecedented challenge to privacy.
Scientists need greater understanding of the bacterium’s basic biology, as well as more about how it is spread from one individual to the next.
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
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.
Reactions in South Africa give little reason for hope that the virus will bring people closer together or trigger more energetic action against poverty.
Written from prison, the new book of poems by the writer, academic and activist shows her fire but also her deep love for Uganda.
Health literacy is the degree to which people can get, understand and use basic health information to make decisions about health issues.
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South Africa is already an established player in global fruit exports, especially citrus. But it has failed to take full advantage of the rise in demand for other fruits.
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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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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 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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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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Fellow, Infrastructure Institute, School of Cities, University of Toronto
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Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Johannesburg
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Professor in the faculty of Medicine, Mbarara University of Science and Technology
