Several questions about the origin of the outbreak remain with no clear data on what this was or if it was an animal source.
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Nigeria’s education system must embrace artificial intelligence technologies to join the fourth industrial revolution.
There are many questions left unanswered because the outbreak is still in an early stage.
The Spanish flu episode highlights some elementary mistakes made back then which must be avoided at all costs to prevent another public health disaster.
Understanding rural household aspirations and taking them seriously in development planning could offer great potential in shaping the future of rural spaces.
The biggest lesson has been that controlling a disease outbreak like Ebola is impossible without community trust and engagement.
The 17 goals seek to end all forms of poverty everywhere by 2030, by achieving 169 targets. Progress in achieving them does not match the hype.
In some communities, over a quarter of the children were misclassified as iron replete whereas they were iron deficient.
Nigeria needs to adopt gender specific strategies to financially include women smallholders in agriculture.
Ghana has ambitious policies on gender equity but is struggling to realise them.
In urban Namibia, performance poetry provides a safe space for women to share their experiences and challenge traditional ideas.
The long history of racist beauty standards alone cannot explain the ongoing global use of harmful skin lighteners.
Bacteria and other toxic biological waste arising from decomposing bodies can contaminate water sources, representing a public health concern.
Hand washing is a tried and true, scientifically proven preventive strategy that reduces the likelihood of transmitting both viral and bacterial borne diseases.
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Women need to be included in all matters of health.
Everything starts and ends with leadership.
Population growth and attendant human activities are destroying a freshwater ecosystem.
Ghana’s lack of a palliative care policy is posing a significant challenge to effective healthcare for cancer patients.
The health and rights of children and adolescents, particularly the most marginalised and vulnerable, are under immediate threat from climate change, corporate actors and growing inequities.
Policies need to address human develop challenges, if people are to be equitably brought on line.
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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
