Ghana’s mid-year target of procuring and administering 17.6 million COVID-19 vaccine doses may be constrained by global supply, cold chain capacity, and vaccine hesitancy.
High quality antenatal care can improve maternal health in West and Central Africa by identifying and addressing underlying problems that can cause pregnancy complications.
Religious courts like this sharia court uphold practices that discriminate against women.
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Nigeria must work towards the harmonisation of laws that protect and promote access to sexual and reproductive health.
Clinical trials with human volunteers done in South Africa must get approval from the health products regulator.
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Advocates for medicines that are unregistered in South Africa have accused the regulatory authority of not being proactive in bringing such products to market and approving their use.
When women do science, society benefits in myriad ways.
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Negotiating for the fair treatment of study participants and benefit sharing before a study commences does not constitute an unfair inducement. It is an ethical imperative.
Sibongile Khumalo performing in London in 2009.
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Current blood pressure targets are based on information from high-income countries. This might mean that these targets are not ideal for South Africans.
Nigeria can resuscitate its vaccine production laboratory with money recently released by its government for local production of COVID-19 vaccine.
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Giving money to support local production of COVID-19 vaccines is a step in the right direction if it will help in resuscitating Nigeria’s vaccine production laboratory.
The reform of the operations of the African Union is key to its future.
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What’s all the excitement around ivermectin? Can it actually help treat COVID-19 patients?
Dutchbar Batticaloa in eastern Sri Lanka was decimated by the 2004 tsunami. It fell under a newly created 200m buffer zone set up to protect people. But it destroyed fishing communities.
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There is a need to be alive to tensions between short- and long-term objectives, as well as the assumptions we hold around what we consider to be “better” and how to achieve it.
Fast food is growing in popularity with Ghanaians.
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James Boafo, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST)
Ghanaian consumption patterns towards fast food are evolving.
Public participation has been found to increase voluntary cash contributions for the construction of schools in Ugandan sub-counties.
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Public participation increased the quality and quantity of some public services, though not in all sectors, and some services were affected more than others.
A coalition of physicians, AIDS activists and medical students protest Trump’s global gag rule, which expands the policy restriction to all US health funding.
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Clashes between farmers and herders in Nigeria have their roots in history and an overriding arc of insecurity, but new challenges are contributing to the problem.
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