Young people must be included from the early stages of interventions.
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Adolescents and young people should get involved early in the design, planning and scale up of interventions.
When multiple electricity companies compete for consumers, there is pressure to keep costs low and to improve service quality.
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A decision to merge energy sector agencies could depress investors’ appetite to finance infrastructure expansion.
Ugandan strongman General Idi Amin raised the national profile of Uganda Nubians – but they were persecuted soon after his overthrow in 1979.
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There is more to ethnic identity than ancestral location or settlement pattern, language or family history.
Lydia Balidawa poses for a photo with a rehabilitated grey crowned crane at Uganda’s Pian Upe Game Reserve.
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The reduction of foreign tourism is an opportunity for Africans to experience many of the continent’s premier parks at a discount.
Cuts in donor funding stretch limited resources.
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HIV services must be comprehensive to ensure that people take their medication as prescribed and avoid onward transmission of the virus.
Even before the advent of COVID-19, donors had begun to exit HIV programmes with increasing frequency.
Somalia is one of East Africa’s terrorism hotspots.
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All terrorism in the region has domestic origins but is linked to regional and international events.
Kenyan police officers display bags of heroin seized in 2011.
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It has long been clear that some countries have drug policies that cause harm and violate human rights.
Economic growth is affected by military expenditure.
Military expenditure is a relevant policy option in reducing the negative effect of terrorism on economic growth in Africa.
An empty school classroom in Uganda.
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School closures have immediate and long-term effects on students, both emotionally and economically. They will also have a ripple effect on a country and on income inequality.
Herbal remedies are commonplace in Uganda; testing these scientifically is a good way to ensure they’re safe and effective.
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It is important that herbal medicine be checked for its safety, its potential to treat particular ailments, and to ascertain its chemical components.
Lightning storm over Johannesburg, South Africa.
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This tool can identify cause of death by fatal lightning strike in skeletonised remains.
A herd of cows returning from a drinking hole in Amboseli, Kenya.
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African livestock keepers need help: without proactive interventions, increasing temperatures will reduce meat and milk production.
A photo taken in August 2015 of disinfected gloves and boots at an Ebola treatment centre in Conakry, Guinea. Lessons are being drawn to manage the Marburg virus.
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Many African countries are experienced in managing outbreaks of viral haemorrhagic fevers and many of the lessons learnt from the Ebola can be applied to the Marburg outbreak.
A researcher prepares reagents for testing the samples for the COVID-19 coronavirus at the laboratory of Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI)
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Countries must be encouraged to distribute essential healthcare provision - like diagnosis - to where people most need them and where they can be accessed more easily.
Kenya’s Eliud Kipchoge receives his drink bottle on the way to gold in the men’s marathon of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
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Kenya’s dominance in distance running has been repeatedly tested, most recently by the emergence of Ethiopia as a powerhouse.
Refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo gather by a market in the Kyangwali Refugee Settlement in Uganda.
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Uganda is making an effort in a neighbourhood where few other countries have the same enthusiasm.
Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame meets Israel’s then Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in 2017.
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Most countries in Africa have chosen to separate the issue of the Palestinians from economic cooperation with Israel.
The spread of malaria can be controlled by community-based management.
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We’ve made advances towards delivering new devices to empower even people with basic medical knowledge to administer malaria tests in the field.
COVID-19 lockdowns have increased the need for ARV delivery in communities.
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There are currently 1.2 million Ugandans enrolled on antiretroviral therapy (ART). They are especially affected by the lockdown.
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Policymakers need to make sense of the data so as to predict and manage what’s happening. To address this need, we developed a visualisation tool to track and predict country-level COVID-19 cases.