There is enormous potential to increase the productivity of African fisheries. There is also potential to improve coastal and marine health.
Coastal communities in West and Central Africa were severely affected by COVID which brought many aspects of food and seafood supply chains to a halt.
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Drug discovery research in Africa receives modest but essential international funding through philanthropic foundations and selected pharmaceutical companies.
Dirty fuels are still popular in large parts of Africa.
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In urbanising communities in sub-Saharan Africa, women cooking primarily with charcoal and wood had approximately 50% higher odds of likely depression than those cooking with gas.
Plastic waste from land based sources pollute the beaches and other water bodies.
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Nigeria generates 2.5 million tonnes of plastic waste yearly. Research and public enlightenment can help address the problem.
A man sits next to dead livestock in the village of Hargududo, Ethiopia, where there’s hardly been a drop of rain in 18 months.
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The ongoing humanitarian crisis raises serious questions about future food and water security in the Horn of Africa.
Professor Glenda Gray was the most visible female scientist in South African media coverage during the first six months of COVID.
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Widows in Nigeria are still exposed to harmful practices.
After being displaced by drought, nearly 300 people, mostly women, and children arrived at Qansahley camp in Dollow, Jubaland, Somalia.
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The new name for monkeypox must be aligned with best practices in naming of infectious diseases to avoid the uninformed negative narrative that associates diseases with regions.
The mental health of mothers has important implications for children and families.
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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
Principal Medical Scientist and Head of Laboratory for Antimalarial Resistance Monitoring and Malaria Operational Research, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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