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A Lancet series shows that C-sections are performed for non-medical reasons in private health while poor women who need the surgery don’t have access.
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Drones are being used to combat malaria in Zanzibar.
Non-Timber Forest Products don’t often feature in discussions about poverty reduction and alleviation.
Using a large number of computers to screen TB drugs reduces the cost and time.
Significant new insights are emerging for the treatment of malaria, and eventually its eradication.
Nigeria’s agricultural sector simply isn’t equipped to produce the amount of rice to meet demand.
Researchers have increasingly turned to DNA sequencing to help identify and track diseases like Ebola.
Post conflict recovery is largely driven by the assumption that as soon as conflict ends, normality returns.
Guinea pigs are a good livestock choice and don’t compete with humans for their food.
Research shows that managed honey bees may pose a threat to free roaming honey bee populations.
Farmers should use biopesticides - naturally occurring substances that kill pests such as the fall armyworm - instead of using pesticides, which are often highly toxic.
Very few women, especially those married, feel protected by the domestic violence laws in Sierra Leone.
Referenda have their place in democracy, but can also be misused.
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Car-free days could work in Nairobi where traffic, congestion and air pollution is a real problem.
Religious and cultural beliefs play a role in the country’s organ donor shortages. But these factors alone grossly oversimplifies the issue.
The National Tobacco Control Act gives the tobacco industry inside access to the decision making process.
Women entrepreneurs in Africa struggle to obtain credit, and to access entrepreneurship education.
A plastic bag has an average usage time of 20 minutes, while it can take up to 1000 years to break down in the environment.
If women don’t have access to quality emergency surgery, they can develop dibilitating complications such as fistula.
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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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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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Sociologist/Criminologist/Victimologist and Media Communication Expert, University of Ibadan
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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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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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Professor of Political Science and Chair of the South African Research Initiative in Gender Politics, Stellenbosch University
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Medical Entomologist at the School of Biological Sciences, University of Nairobi
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Fellow, Infrastructure Institute, School of Cities, University of Toronto
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Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Johannesburg
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Professor in the faculty of Medicine, Mbarara University of Science and Technology
