Airport public health officials have got better at screening at ports of entry especially for international arrivals.
Academic rigour, journalistic flair
Articles on RandD
Displaying 2101 - 2120 of 3020 articles
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control says it will use lessons from the Ebola outbreak to strengthen its risk communications capacity.
Difficult to understand communication and the somewhat overstated benefits of male circumcision may lead to increased risky sexual behaviour.
Measles infection can be easily managed with prompt health care and symptom management. But without care, mild symptoms can turn into life threatening secondary infections or long-term effects.
Students in Nigeria used home remedies to prevent pregnancy after sex and had doubts about the efficacy of medically approved pills.
Nigeria recently approved the world’s first GM cowpea, which provides full protection against the pod-borer Maruca, a major problem for this important crop.
Two coronaviruses were identified in the 1960s, and five since SARS in 2003. It is the seventh that is now making headlines.
The digital economy will, soon, become the ordinary economy as the uptake - and application - of digital technologies in every sector in the world grows.
Ghana needs to make use of the fact that people are environmentally conscious.
Prolonged rains increase the amount of stagnant water in the environment in which mosquitoes breed. This increases the risk of mosquito-borne diseases.
CC BY-NC-ND4.69 MB (download)
To increase food production, climate challenges will need to be overcome.
Soil and water conservation projects can create fertile farmlands and change migration patterns linked to land degradation in Burkina Faso.
Behaviours such as head banging, picking at the lips and chewing on harmful objects like stones make children with autism more likely to have dental health problems.
Inadequate public education on a new language policy has generated resistance from parents at the early childhood education level in Ghana.
Mathematical modelling tools may predict where tsetse flies are being driven to extinction.
Two interventions proved effective in reducing men’s perpetration, but not women’s experiences of violence.
The causes of injuries to children are often linked to the circumstances in which people live.
Underlying direct or personal violence is structural violence that is entrenched in unequal power relations in society.
CC BY-NC-ND4.05 MB (download)
Rwanda has developed a strong, decentralised health system and addressed many of the major financial and geographic barriers people faced.
The debate about gene editing will help shape the future of the human race. But how should the discussion get started?
Top contributors
-
Senior Fellow, Department of Agricultural Economics, Stellenbosch University
-
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
-
Research Scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
-
Fellow, Nigerian Academy of Science
-
Principal Medical Scientist and Head of Laboratory for Antimalarial Resistance Monitoring and Malaria Operational Research, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
-
Research Fellow, Tegemeo Institute, Egerton University
-
Sociologist/Criminologist/Victimologist and Media Communication Expert, University of Ibadan
-
Medical scientist, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
-
Regional Adviser, Immunisation, WHO Regional Office for Africa, Stellenbosch University
-
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
-
Professor of Political Science and Chair of the South African Research Initiative in Gender Politics, Stellenbosch University
-
Medical Entomologist at the School of Biological Sciences, University of Nairobi
-
Fellow, Infrastructure Institute, School of Cities, University of Toronto
-
Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Johannesburg
-
Professor in the faculty of Medicine, Mbarara University of Science and Technology
