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Women face a number of socio-economic challenges that make it harder for them to access higher education.
Cape monkfish caught from some areas off Namibia’s coast should be screened for mercury and other heavy metals.
We found that evidence cited by three organisations - a big corporate and two industry lobby groups - was either not evidence at all, or had been twisted to suit the industry’s narrative.
The entire premise of effective competition is that purchasing of health services should be based on value - a combination of price and quality.
Constructing fancy ‘smart cities’ might not be the best solution for Africa’s rapidly urbanising populations.
Dissection is important for developing a range of skills, as well as moral and ethical training and a humanistic approach to patient care.
If trends continue, 87% of the world’s poorest people will live in sub-Saharan Africa by 2030.
Middle-class Nigerians employ children in their homes for a range of reasons.
Hunger affects people’s health. It also affects their dignity and their ability to live full and productive lives.
The governments of the two West African countries could do more to enhance women’s participation in tourism.
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The solution to measles outbreaks is deceptively easy: vaccinate more children. This belies the challenges along the path to that solution.
The region has made progress but efforts must continue to end a harmful practice rooted in poverty and tradition.
Food insecurity remains a serious challenge among university students in South Africa.
The emergency in the DRC shows that despite all these positive changes, the global response to containing Ebola outbreaks is undermined by the lack of health care and public health infrastructure.
Ending the Boko Haram insurgency is the last hurdle in Nigeria’s race against polio
Care facilities are often considered a last resort in South Africa. Personal care is assumed to be provided by family and household members.
We found that the key factors behind poor cognitive function were related to levels of education, being a woman, marital status and being poor.
Rapid population ageing has prompted researchers to study disease trends in older South Africans. The aim is to understand the role that specific health conditions play in ageing among rural people.
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During almost all outbreaks, women provide the majority of care to the ill voluntarily in their homes at great risk and cost to themselves.
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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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Sociologist/Criminologist/Victimologist and Media Communication Expert, University of Ibadan
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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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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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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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Medical Entomologist at the School of Biological Sciences, University of Nairobi
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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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Professor of Social Development Studies, University of Johannesburg
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Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Johannesburg
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Fellow, Infrastructure Institute, School of Cities, University of Toronto
