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The impact of plant disease may be reduced if people are made aware of the many pathways for plant-killing microbes – and why preventing their spread matters to us all.
The proposed foreign aid cuts by US President Donald Trump will have a devastating impact on healthcare in Africa.
There are lots of tall tales about mosquitoes and how malaria is transmitted. Here are sturdy facts on the disease.
Glaucoma is a slow and silent progressive disease and the second leading cause of blindness, that requires early diagnosis.
A new education system in set to replace the 32-year-old 8-4-4 system which has come to symbolise much of what’s wrong with education in Kenya today.
South Africa’s social grants, which benefit a third of the country’s population, are widely celebrated. But these grants fall far short of addressing the country’s malnutrition challenge.
African countries are bound by continental law to put aside funds for the protection of women’s rights, but very few have managed to put their gender-budgeting guidelines into practice
Getting local farmers involved in school feeding schemes has the potential to boost livelihoods and revitalise rural economies in Africa.
Kenya’s doctors embarked on a strike for a 100 days to push the government to implement a collective bargaining agreement signed in June 2013.
New technologies are developing with exponential velocity, breadth and depth. Their systemic impact is likely to be profound.
The new Internet of Things has the potential to compensate for Africa’s legacies of underdevelopment.
Infertility is tied to the instability of romantic relationships in Ghana.
Scientists have struggled to diagnose TB in people with compromised immune systems because of the low levels of the bacteria in their body.
To tackle TB a dynamic change in discourse is needed. The focus must be on how to respond to emerging complexities the disease presents.
The discovery of a rare gene is twofold, and has a scientific and clinical impact in the fight against heart muscle disease.
Urban consumers in Africa are rapidly growing and they are demanding high quality, pesticide free food.
Kenyan tertiary institutions are learning from each other by sharing experiences on overcoming challenges they face during medical training.
South Africa did a brilliant job of increasing access to safe water for millions of people after the first democratic elections in 1994. But it hasn’t kept up the good work.
Import bans in Africa are a poor substitute for the creation of incentives that enable
local producers to compete favourably.
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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
