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Twenty-six fast-growing African cities may battle health challenges if air pollution is not addressed.
Unless ambitious public policy action is taken, electric vehicles will remain the privilege of the few for the foreseeable future.
Periods of high food inflation affect poor households the most. This is because they spend a higher percentage of their income on food.
Molecular research is expensive, but worth it because of the burden of disease that it could relieve.
Together with higher cotton production, nanotextile products can boost Nigeria’s textile industry and the economy.
Improved mediation skills for local leaders can help prevent the escalation of disputes and break cycles of violence.
We expected to find that screening everybody for TB would identify individuals not yet diagnosed, and treating them quickly would reduce the prevalence of TB in the community.
Kenya should improve access to life saving vaccines, and train healthcare workers on patient management and best practices.
Nigeria’s built environment should ideally be part of a broader, integrated approach to crime prevention and community policing.
Understanding the depth of vaccine hesitancy, and the drivers behind the lack of take-up is critical to preventing further deaths, infections, and continuing harm to the economy.
Monitoring and enforcing competition rules is essential to level the playing field for fairer food markets.
Problems caused by malnutrition - such as obesity - are on the rise in South Africa, with serious health consequences.
Policies, if implemented, would drive the agricultural sector’s growth in ways that would benefit all.
Ensuring the participation of ordinary citizens and producers in the industry is the big challenge facing African states.
The number of smokers in Africa is projected to increase.
Coltan is indispensable to the making of modern electronic devices but its mining causes human and environmental disasters in the DR Congo.
When humans eat fish, mussels and other foods containing antibiotics, the residual antibiotics may cause bacterial pathogens to become resistant.
Women in more prestigious jobs than their husbands were seven times more likely to experience physical and emotional violence, compared to women ranked lower than their husbands.
Obese persons are regularly associated with laziness and inactivity in Ghanaian society.
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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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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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Sociologist/Criminologist/Victimologist and Media Communication Expert, University of Ibadan
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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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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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Professor of Political Science and Chair of the South African Research Initiative in Gender Politics, Stellenbosch University
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Medical Entomologist at the School of Biological Sciences, University of Nairobi
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Fellow, Infrastructure Institute, School of Cities, University of Toronto
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Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Johannesburg
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Professor in the faculty of Medicine, Mbarara University of Science and Technology
