According to the estimates by the World Health Organisation, Africa is one of two regions – along with the Eastern Mediterranean region – where smoking rates are on the rise.
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It's important for people to seek proper information about the coronavirus and not believe everything they see and hear on social media.
South Africa’s post-apartheid leaders have failed to properly prepare the military for secondary roles such as peacekeeping, let alone to a fight a virus.
Challenges that women and girls in low-income areas face have been worsened by measures taken to slow the spread of COVID-19.
South Africa’s management of the COVID-19 pandemic must now shift from a centrally regulated approach to one that enables participation and compliance by communities, workers and businesses.
Africa needs to be better prepared to deal with future pandemics. That should start with a re-assessment of how countries invest in – and support – local research.
This is the first time that camel handlers in East Africa have been shown to have been exposed to MERS.
How sea water circulates underneath Antarctic ice shelves is a vital missing link in climate change projections.
A group of leading black, queer and feminist academics held a colloquium to reconsider a seminal blackness studies text – offering new ways of thinking about the decolonial project.
The pandemic coincides with the long rainy season in Kenya. Rain increases mosquito breeding sites, vector density and thus transmission of mosquito-borne diseases.
Two thirds of South African women are overweight or obese and their babies are three times more likely to become obese themselves.
Policies should protect arable land from urban encroachment and make peri-urban households less vulnerable.
South Africa must benchmark its education policies against high-income countries, if it wants to become one, and not measure its performance against its peers.
Statistical models and the knowledge of on-the-ground rangers are valuable and complementary sources of evidence for biodiversity conservation.
South Africa envisages the gradual closure of older coal plants, mostly located in Mpumalanga. Can these coal fields be turned into renewable energy hubs?
The desire of scholars and universities in Africa to fit into a model imposed from elsewhere may hinder development in Africa.
In poorer parts of the world, such as sub-Saharan Africa, health systems are not designed to care for people with chronic conditions. They are more focused on single, acute diseases.
One of the methods researchers are exploring to combat COVID-19 is gene editing: altering the genome of the virus to make it harmless.
Gross negligence won’t be excused under any circumstances. But standards for reasonable medical care can’t be the same as in pre-COVID-19 times.
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Thinking about getting the flu shot? This may help you decide.
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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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Senior Fellow, Department of Agricultural Economics, Stellenbosch University
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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 in the faculty of Medicine, Mbarara University of Science and Technology
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Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Johannesburg
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Pro Vice-Chancellor: Climate, Sustainability and Inequality and Director: Southern Centre for Inequality Studies., University of the Witwatersrand
