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Africa is home to the world’s fastest growing cities. However, poor governance has robbed the continent of the benefits of people and firms clustering together.
Women in disaster zones are frequently targeted by sexual predators who take advantage of their vulnerability.
In some Nigerian universities, wealthy female students engage in trasnactional sex for pleasure, while those that needed financial support did it for the money.
Empowering young women with information in high school can help ensure that certain cancers are caught early.
Book adds a great deal to our understanding of how children were ensnared into the Indian Ocean slave trade.
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Black women face a number of challenges in trying to become scientists.
Rift Valley Fever infects millions of humans and livestock in Africa and Arabia. To fight it, scientists are developing a first of its kind vaccine that can be used on humans and animals.
Boys are more likely to engage in risky behaviours than girls
Although still hugely popular in rural areas, we found that there is little or no support from the government to develop the local brew industry because it’s viewed as unhygienic and hard to tax.
Women in Sudan have been resisting the controls placed on them for some time - by using their smart phones and social media to trade.
Close to 4 million teenage girls are subjected to breast ironing worldwide. This harmful cultural practice, which is most prevalent in West and Central Africa, needs to stop.
Changes in weather patterns have made life a great deal more precarious for pastoral communities.
Light pollution comes with numerous problems.
Given the high burden of malaria in sub-Saharan Africa, a partially effective vaccine is considered better than none.
Most cancer research has been done in Europe, there’s minimal data on African populations.
Some entrepreneurship support models work better than others. Governance and structure is key to their success, or failure.
Solar lights can help local governments drastically reduce their spending on electricity bills.
Any policies and interventions around water management can only really be successful if women are included.
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Developing countries present an opportunity for agroecological innovations to help small-scale farmers.
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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
