Pregnant schoolgirls weigh up several factors when deciding whether to stay in school throughout and after their pregnancies.
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Market-led microcredit innovations dominated by profit maximisation can harm the very vulnerable.
An employee makes fermentation notes by torchlight during a power outage period at a brewery in Cape Town, South Africa.
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Children who need help most tend to experience adversity throughout childhood. That continuing adversity muffles the benefit of improved early nutrition.
Adherence to treatment plans, particularly chemotherapy is complex.
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Services such as chemotherapy are only available in tertiary hospitals located in the country’s urban centres. Transport to these hospitals can be a barrier to care.
Vendors are continuously exposed to outdoor air pollution from traffic or automotive emissions and cooking fuels such as gas and open fires.
Digital storytelling offers a way for water researchers to capture the nuance and emotion of people’s experiences.
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Pit bulls were imported to South Africa, mainly from the 1970s, where they were further bred - some as guard dogs, some as pets, some for illegal dog fighting rings.
COVID-19 lockdowns significantly reduced access to and the provision of antiretroviral treatment services.
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Cities vie with each other to present global sporting events as a way to position themselves as world-class cities. However, this marketing often exacerbates social inequalities.
People in prison are more at risk of TB than the general population.
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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