Vaccine development usually spans a number of decades. This is because there’s a need to understand the mechanisms of protection against the pathogen, and to minimise adverse reactions.
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It is important that procedures surrounding funerals are developed by public health officials alongside traditional and religious authorities.
South Africa faces high levels of noncommunicable diseases such as diabetes and hypertension. The NHI is likely to battle to cope with treating large numbers of sick people.
While the internet and social media have changed young Nigerians’ communication styles and even language, they have not reduced communication.
In a pandemic like this one, the priority is to save lives. But without a vaccine, there’s a limit in the tools available to save lives.
The healthcare sector should focus on employee engagement and fostering meaningful relationships between staff. Leaders must show empathy and help staff deal with the trauma they may be experiencing.
In Africa, people who report higher levels of exposure to disinformation also report lower levels of media trust.
Civil society activists responding to the COVID-19 social crisis face important challenges and tensions. They should tackle these choices head-on as they develop longer-term plans.
More financial services should target low-income households in South Africa.
Zimbabwe’s policy makers believe that deforestation is a threat to the economy, but citizens believe environmental degradation is an outcome of the country’s dire political and economic situation.
Pooled testing is most efficient when applied in settings of low virus prevalence.
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The active and uninhibited dissemination of knowledge is vital for the advancement of knowledge.
Some of the priorities were drawn from the World Health Organisation’s Roadmap; others were expressed by researchers in and from Africa as being important to the continent’s many contexts.
History shows that treatments and vaccines have been accessible to African countries only after the loss of millions of lives and typically years - sometimes decades - after developed nations.
Clashes between farmers and herders in Nigeria have been bloody and protracted, with one side portrayed as victims. But as this study shows, both sides are victims.
South Africa’s public health system has been allocated R21.5 billion more for the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic but there’s no strategy to guide how it should be used.
Nigeria’s medical community is mourning the death of medical professor and university administrator, Emeritus Professor Oladipo Olujimi Akinkugbe.
Most facilities prioritize COVID-19 cases. In addition, curfews are still in effect in Kenya, which affects the working hours of clinics providing hypertension care services.
Vitamin D has been shown to regulate the function of 229 genes in humans, suggesting that it plays many roles in maintaining health.
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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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Sociologist/Criminologist/Victimologist and Media Communication Expert, University of Ibadan
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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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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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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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Medical Entomologist at the School of Biological Sciences, University of Nairobi
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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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Professor of Social Development Studies, University of Johannesburg
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Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Johannesburg
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Fellow, Infrastructure Institute, School of Cities, University of Toronto
