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Examining old vegetation sediments to learn about shifting weather patterns and climate change.
Local participation and ownership of the response to COVID-19 is the only sustainable option.
Haphazard development of abattoirs without environmental and health considerations in Nigeria can only invite diseases – and potentially pandemics such as COVID-19.
The South African government and some of its advisors want to have the best of both worlds. They want to use incorrect predictions by early models about the COVID-19 pandemic to claim success.
Knowledge about the movement of marine plastics will help reduce the impact of plastic pollution in water bodies.
Mosquitoes that had Microsporidia MB - a tiny parasitic fungus - never became infected with malaria.
In the hope of finding a cure for COVID-19, it is easy to get lost in the hype. But chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine should for now be set aside.
It is no accident that those leaders who have responded worst to this crisis have also been the main sources of countless conspiracy theories and misinformation.
Despite Nigeria’s draconian laws against homosexuality, authors like the award-winning Akwaekwe Emezi are important new voices that add complexity to the question of identity.
West African countries are faced with the challenge of growing their grids while avoiding the climate impacts of increased fossil fuel use.
Zoologists have known for decades that some of the most devastating viral infections originate from animals. Their data and research can be used in efforts to prevent pandemics.
Until now, the interaction of temperature and air pollution and its contribution to these diseases hasn’t been studied conclusively in South Africa - or anywhere on the African continent.
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For the people who do show symptoms of COVID-19, what are they and why do they differ?
The mental health implications of child marriage on young girls are significant
South Africa’s lockdown rules started with high legitimacy. But it has been eroded and has now dissolved.
Removing social medicine from the education of medical students would be to their detriment - as well as their future patients.
The judgment creates a new layer of uncertainty in an already highly fluid situation and heaps further unwelcome pressure onto government.
When South Africa eventually emerges from the fog of the COVID-19 crisis, structural reform, including land reform, will be high on the political agenda as never before.
A continuous lock down is detrimental to Nigeria’s large population of people living below poverty lines, but lifting the restrictions without a proper plan is equally dangerous. Here’s what to do.
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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
