Due to the poor security response of the Nigerian state, insurgency will continue to pose a serious threat to its northeast border communities.
Members of Ghana’s parliament during a break from electing a new leader of parliament. Only 14% of parliamentarians are women.
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Sustainable financial inclusion in Nigeria requires interventions that strengthen financial capability, participation and well-being of small-scale farmers.
Bank buildings rise above the business district of Lagos. Banks must effectively communicate the impact of their engagement with women.
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Emily B. Wong, Africa Health Research Institute (AHRI) and Alison Grant, Africa Health Research Institute (AHRI)
South Africa’s long-awaited TB prevalence survey results were recently released. They reveal that the country has a much higher burden of TB than previously thought.
Some Nigerians took to mass looting of warehouses containing COVID-19 food palliatives that were not distributed six months into lockdown.
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In Nigeria, the unmarried, the unemployed, the less educated and those from the northern parts of the country were most susceptible to psychological challenges associated with COVID-19 lockdown.
Local diets need to be sustainable, linked to human health and environmental sustainability.
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Indigenous foods such as cowpeas can improve people’s nutrition and help them cope with the hunger brought about by the effects of COVID-19 on foreign food imports.
Two men work their maize crop in Uganda’s Kapchorwa district.
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Confusion reigns about Nigeria’s distribution plan for its first batch of COVID-19 vaccines.
South Africans wait in a queue for free food. Understanding the social impact has been key to managing the pandemic.
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The lead role of public health researchers continues to be important. But there is growing acknowledgement that social scientists have to be present from the very beginning.
Farmers, Rui Vaz village, Santiago island, Cape Verde.
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Indigenous beans could enhance food security in Cabo Verde which depends on food imports.
Students from the public school where more than 200 girls were kidnapped by Boko Haram in 2014 on their first day back at the school.
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For anyone who has worked on crop improvement in Africa over the last three decades, the flood of misinformation around vaccines evokes an eerie sense of déjà vu.
Children are eating too much poor nutrient quality food and too little of good nutrient quality food.
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Adolescent girls can contribute to social change, economic growth, sustainable development and peaceful societies. They should be able to live their lives free from violence.
Health workers collect data from a man before taking samples during Kenya’s COVID-19 mass testing exercise.
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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
Principal Medical Scientist and Head of Laboratory for Antimalarial Resistance Monitoring and Malaria Operational Research, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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