The reality is that the move to introduce a sugar tax in South Africa is necessary because of the scourge of non-communicable diseases and obesity in the country.
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The danger with typhoid is that symptoms are quite insidious and mimic those of other infectious diseases.
It's been one year since the last polio case was reported in Africa. If the continent keeps this up, it could be declared polio free by 2018.
The Africa Cup of Nations, the continent’s mini-World Cup, is played every two years by the national teams of 16 African countries who have competed in a series of qualifiers to play in the final tournament…
A deadly fungal infection has been spreading across western North America. The number of human and animal cases has grown rapidly in recent years, to the extent that government agencies in US and Canada…
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Senior Research Specialist, Johns Hopkins Medicine
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Professor of Economics and Accounting, College of the Holy Cross
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Assistant Professor, College of the Holy Cross
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Director, Cochrane South Africa, South African Medical Research Council
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Researcher & Post-doc in Human Nutrition, University of Pretoria
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Associate Professor of Human Nutrition at the Institute of Food, Nutrition and Wellbeing, University of Pretoria
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Deputy Director of the National Institute for Communicable Diseases and a member of the joint staff, University of the Witwatersrand
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Reseacher in Human Nutrition and Food Composition, University of Pretoria
