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Botswana’s High Court could finally decriminalise same-sex relations.
Science is not the absolute truth. Scientific findings are the beginning, not the end, of the quest for truth.
Community-based HIV programmes helps improve access to health care.
The lengthy nature of some of Africa’s wars is one of the main hindrances to ending the “refugee cycle”.
Foot-and-mouth disease vaccines have been successful in several parts of the world. But in Tanzania it’s not that easy.
Children whose families benefit from social grants and family support interventions enjoy better health, nutrition and schooling.
In sub-Saharan Africa there are more people with mobile phones than access to electricity, and their data could be useful.
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It's increasingly difficult to manage diseases in inner cities.
South Africa needs to continue public awareness campaigns to reduce excessive salt intake to protect cardiovascular health.
Ethiopia’s teff plant is gluten-free and demand is growing. The country needs to upgrade its harvesting to reap the rewards.
With proper regulation, Lake Victoria’s fisheries could increase production without damaging wild stocks or the environment.
Fast-food outlets outnumber healthy food stores in South Africa’s Gauteng province.
Four new Ebola treatments are being tried out in the DRC.
Uganda’s tourism ministry has launched a beauty pageant to use local women to attract tourists.
The visibility of #MeToo makes it easy to overlook the very powerful campaigns against sexual violence in Africa.
Warthogs are an important species in managing bovine TB.
If the pattern of drought continues in South Africa it’s likely to affect the country’s financial standing too.
Nigeria, like many emerging countries, needs to educate its women at the same rate it does its men to enhance entrepreneurship.
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Pregnant teens in Kenya face a number of challenges.
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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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Regional Adviser, Immunisation, WHO Regional Office for Africa, Stellenbosch University
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