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Acoustic monitoring is ideal for tracking the abundance of a species over time, because it has minimal impact on the species being monitored.
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Combining design innovation methods with medical disciplines such as microbiology can help tackle health related challenges.
Dentists need to have a sound understanding of genetics to treat and manage patients effectively.
Nigeria has an alarming number of stunted children. This can hold back the country’s long-term productivity if there is no intervention.
Misinformation spreads fast when people are afraid and a contagious and potentially fatal disease is frightening. This provides the ideal emotionally charged context for rumours to thrive.
The discovery of a new strain of HIV gives scientists a better understanding of the virus.
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Healthy food is fresh food and it needs to be made affordable for everyone.
The sustainability of African agriculture is critical to the continent’s food security and for maintaining agriculture’s contribution to Africa’s rural communities and national economies
An estimated 2000 million women have undergone female genital mutilation and millions more are at risk. The practice is carried out mainly for cultural and economic reasons.
A tree-killing beetle that invaded South Africa two years ago and wreaked havoc in the country’s towns and cities still hasn’t been declared an emergency plant pest.
The best way of dealing with desert locust, as other locust species, is to adopt a preventive management strategy.
The number of users is likely to grow and there are health risks, so now is the time to act.
Nigeria has to plug the gaps at points of entry to keep infectious diseases at bay.
The rapid rise in cancer cases can be attributed to major societal and environmental changes that have occurred in the past few decades.
Centrally switching water heaters on and off at specific times can distribute the demand for electricity and lead to energy saving.
Savvy female stable flies prefer to lay their eggs on donkey and sheep dung. Knowing where they choose to do this will help us manage disease.
The state of emergency ultimately led to substantial legal changes that should better protect women and girls. But what really happened?
Support for European soccer clubs is defining relationships between spouses.
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Why you should consider donating your body to research once you die.
Advancements in data analytics can prevent food wastage and save farmers from significant losses along the fresh produce value chain.
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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
