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Kenya’s irrigation development is more advanced than official records show because they exclude what some farmers are doing.
Many infections, including bacterial, fungal and viral infections can lead to sepsis and septic shock.
As signatories, Nigeria and Rwanda are demonstrating their commitment to safe, sustainable use of outer space. This should have multiple benefits.
Illegal logging entrenches systemic corruption, undermines accountability in governance, and finances insecurity.
Rahima Moosa Hospital caters for a very large number of women and children. The large patient numbers and high burden of care have a negative impact on the hospital.
The relationship between small-scale irrigation and food security, diet quality, and nutrition is growing.
A new global dataset shows there is no clear global increase of infectious disease outbreaks over time. And it can suggest which countries would most likely be affected by an outbreak.
The seaweed invasion of parts of the Ghanaian shoreline is affecting coastal inhabitants.
Most farmworkers were not even aware that the farm they worked on was Fairtrade certified.
The inequitable distribution of the benefits and harms of the food system is a violation of the constitutional right to food.
Deep-seated cultural practices – such as female genital mutilation and child marriage – prevent girls from making progress in school.
Shepherding livestock may be more effective protection than killing predators.
Health extension workers in Ethiopia have had a measurable impact on interconnected challenges such as child marriage, teenage pregnancy, and school dropout.
Criminalisation of medical judgment may interfere with appropriate medical decision making.
African policymakers need to access science-based information that can directly inform future planning.
Cervical cancer is one of the most common cancers in women. Mortality rates in sub-Saharan Africa are three times higher than the global average.
Being able to tell the difference between good quality medicines and fakes can be a matter of life and death.
Food insecurity remains a major health problem. And poorer households are disproportionately affected.
African catfish can be prepared for sale in canned form, which is more attractive to consumers.
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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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