Health care workers and patients in the temporary outside area Steve Biko Academic Hospital created to screen and treat suspected Covid-19 cases in Pretoria.
Alet Pretorius/Gallo Images via Getty Images
Scientists have observed that 501Y.V2 has quickly become “dominant” among multiple variants that have been circulating in the South African population.
There are very few qualified female teachers in schools in northern Nigeria.
shutterstock
Colleges of education must have increased resources to improve training. They must also address gender-specific issues such as childcare provision, accommodation and sexual harassment.
Vaccine hesitancy is a growing public health problem.
Sharon Seretlo/Gallo Images via Getty Images
Vaccine hesitancy has resulted in multiple vaccine-preventable disease outbreaks. Research on vaccine hesitancy in South Africa is limited. But growing evidence suggests that it’s becoming a problem.
Fruit and vegetables at a market in Kenya. The WHO is pushing for consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables, whole grains, beans, fish and unsaturated fats.
Shutterstock
When a pandemic hits, questions that immediately arise include what impact there will be on public health, the economy and other aspects of society. Another set of questions involves response priorities…
If South Africa is serious about being able to supply anti-pandemic vaccines in future, it needs to rethink the scale of financial, technical and strategic investment into vaccine production.
Hand hygiene is important to fight COVID-19 but how can you do that without water.
Shutterstock
COVID-19 restrictions created life-threatening challenges to female sex workers as they weren’t able to access their medication, support or their clients.
Schools must build working relationships with their stakeholders.
shutterstock
The African Vaccine Acquisition Task Team recently secured a provisional 270 million vaccine doses for African countries.
This image was taken at the Hawzien market in Tigray, two years before the war which has put millions in need of emergency food assistance.
Oscar Espinosa/Shutterstock
The health and wellbeing effects will go beyond the direct impact of war-related fatalities, and are likely to last for years after peace is fully restored.
South Africa’s Minister of Health, Dr Zweli Mkhize (centre). The government has been criticised for not having an actionable plan on vaccines.
Photo by Darren Stewart/Gallo Images via Getty Images
Critics of the South African government argue that it has done too little too late to secure vaccines, and that it doesn’t have a proper plan in place for rollout.
It’s unlikely South Africa will have a substantial number of vaccines until the second half of this year. Most of the vaccines produced in Europe or America have been bought by other countries.
Nurses in the isolation unit at Tygerberg Hospital in the Western Cape.
Misha Jordaan/Gallo Images via Getty Images
Creating a space where people feel safe to voice opinions, make mistakes and risk ridicule when offering an idea can have a significant effect on teams.
Growing poverty and unemployment have seen shacklands mushroom in post-apartheid South Africa.
Frédéric Soltan/Corbis via Getty Images
The country still has a way to go in addressing the challenges of social inequity. But there has been some progress in every sphere of government.
Ugandan musician-turned-politician Robert Kyagulanyi addresses the media after his car was shot at by police in eastern Uganda during his campaign.
Photo by Sumy Sadurni/AFP via Getty Images
Local and national governments in west and central African countries must prioritise investment in providing access to HIV testing for all pregnant women.
A jaguar skin lies sprawled across a fence post in one of the Brazilian Pantanal’s many cow ranches. This individual was shot by a rancher after a cow was found dead on the ranch.
Steve Winter
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