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East African countries use a scorecard to monitor maternal and child health progress in the region.
Genomics research is crucial to identify Africa-specific solutions to a range of diseases.
There’s mounting evidence that increased lighting has a range of negative effects.
In many African states power is concentrated in the executive branch. That’s why women’s representation in cabinet matters.
Until then we need to get effective, accessible treatment for all who need it, while deploying the many prevention tools at our disposal.
The push to end TB requires significant investment into the research and development of new diagnostics and treatments.
Lagos has all the appropriate laws but it needs to adopt the right procedures and see them through.
Nigeria has the world’s highest number of out-of-school children and over 60 million of its citizens are illiterate. Here’s what the country can do to improve its education sector.
Land reform programme has done very little to improve access to land for black South Africans.
Research shows that women in Africa are more likely to die as a result of complications related to C-sections.
The availability of data and evidence in the agricultural sector is critical for decision making
Our new paper titled ‘DNA barcoding validates species labelling of certified seafood’ presents the largest and most comprehensive assessment of MSC-labelled products to date.
Research found that only a quarter of anaesthetists working in main referral hospitals in East Africa used the WHO safe surgical checklist.
New research shows that the treatment of drug resistant-TB can be reduced from the current duration of 20 to 24 months to less than a year.
TB outside the lungs accounted for 14% of TB cases recorded globally in 2017.
In Southern Africa, high rates of HIV infection have been the primary driver of TB
The recent storms provide a grim reminder of the prospect of future tropical cyclones in a region under continued threat from climate change.
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Why it's important South Africa doesn't ignore sexually transmitted infections.
The green revolution: small-scale, informal irrigation is expanding in Zimbabwe and small scale farmers are leading the way.
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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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Principal Medical Scientist and Head of Laboratory for Antimalarial Resistance Monitoring and Malaria Operational Research, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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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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