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.
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Group B streptococcus is the most common bacterial cause of illness in newborn babies around the world.
Scientists need to close the knowledge gap around COVID-19 and the virus that causes it.
African countries need to strengthen their capacity for identifying new cases.
The World Health Organisation has a plan to halve deaths and disability from snakebites
Unless we know what is in the ocean, we can’t protect the biggest part of the planet.
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.
Currently, outbreaks are managed using chemical pesticides or an insect fungus. Neither is a good option.
The outbreak continues to spread in new geographies and in numbers.
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.
With the introduction of free maternal healthcare, Nigeria appears to have got more women using health facilities, but there are more hurdles to cross.
Jokes and satire can build resilience but also spread misinformation as people don’t always know what is trustworthy and what is just funny.
Several questions about the origin of the outbreak remain with no clear data on what this was or if it was an animal source.
Nigeria’s education system must embrace artificial intelligence technologies to join the fourth industrial revolution.
There are many questions left unanswered because the outbreak is still in an early stage.
The Spanish flu episode highlights some elementary mistakes made back then which must be avoided at all costs to prevent another public health disaster.
Understanding rural household aspirations and taking them seriously in development planning could offer great potential in shaping the future of rural spaces.
The biggest lesson has been that controlling a disease outbreak like Ebola is impossible without community trust and engagement.
The 17 goals seek to end all forms of poverty everywhere by 2030, by achieving 169 targets. Progress in achieving them does not match the hype.
Top contributors
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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
