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Societal pressures make it hard for people living in low-income areas to change their ways.
Banditry in northern Nigeria is making an already precarious security situation in the region worse.
Top-down reforms like those proposed in the NHI Bill need to be complemented by a bottom-up process of health system strengthening.
There are a number of effective interventions to prevent gender-based violence among adult women and men at risk of HIV infection. But little is known about the effectiveness of these in young people.
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WhatsApp can amplify and complement a candidate’s ground campaign. But it cannot replace it.
Digital technologies have created new opportunities for businesses in sub-Saharan Africa, but they must be aimed at meeting the sub-continent’s needs.
Local communities are wary of the sudden arrival of outsiders and of their interest in regions where there’s been violence for years
Sanders was not afraid to challenge and speak out about sensitive and difficult issues, to people in senior positions of power - and when he did, they sat up and listened.
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Over the past two decades digitisation has steadily transformed African farming.
Sites like Agbogbloshie provides a valuable service. They offer opportunities for job creation, profit and cleaning up environments littered with waste.
Policies that will drive investment and change the structure of economies in the West African sub region are facing several challenges.
With limited resources and inadequate infrastructure, African universities appear to be under tremendous strain. But some are beating the odds and getting it right.
We wanted to investigate how the People’s Republic of China and countries in Africa work together in science and technology.
The fact that relative food prices differ so markedly and so systematically provides a very strong rationale for nutrition-focused food policies.
The South African government is going ahead with the National Health Insurance scheme but has yet to detail how it is to be funded. What seems certain is that taxpayers will foot the bill.
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It’s not enough to simply promote healthy eating and exercise without considering South Africa's very real environmental and structural constraints.
If African countries can get the fundamentals right, cloud computing could become a powerful ally in the push for sustainable development.
The emerging relationship between new technologies and Africa may be some of the most promising news for the continent but caution is important.
Governments should change their approach by deepening collaboration with citizens to ensure delivery of urban infrastructure
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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
