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.
Unless we know what is in the ocean, we can’t protect the biggest part of the planet.
A vendor distributes newspapers wearing a face mask as a preventive measure against the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus in Nairobi, Kenya.
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Governments must take note of specific geographic contexts and local attributes that drive water insecurity.
A community volunteer uses a motorised spray to apply pesticide on February 25, 2020 at a locust hatch site in eastern Kenya.
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With the introduction of free maternal healthcare, Nigeria appears to have got more women using health facilities, but there are more hurdles to cross.
Humour is sometimes used as a coping mechanism in tragic situations.
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There are many questions left unanswered because the outbreak is still in an early stage.
The St Louis Red Cross Motor Corps on duty with mask-wearing women holding stretchers at the backs of ambulances during the global flu epidemic, St Louis, Missouri, October 1918.
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The Spanish flu episode highlights some elementary mistakes made back then which must be avoided at all costs to prevent another public health disaster.
Most households didn’t want their future generations to become farmers.
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Kai Mausch, Center for International Forestry Research – World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF) dan David Harris, Bangor University
Understanding rural household aspirations and taking them seriously in development planning could offer great potential in shaping the future of rural spaces.
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
Principal Medical Scientist and Head of Laboratory for Antimalarial Resistance Monitoring and Malaria Operational Research, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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