Remarkable progress is being made on HIV treatment. But African countries need to work on sustainable ways to ensure the treatment programmes are not entirely dependent on foreign aid.
Metropolitan areas are key to economic prosperity of countries. But this is affected when the population grows too fast like in Uganda’s Kampala, where growth has outpaced infrastructure development.
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni speaks during a presidential campaign rally in the capital Kampala in 2016.
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As a young radical in the 1980s, Museveni publicly scorned African rulers who clung to power. Now, after 30 years in office, he is clearly clinging pretty hard himself.
African countries need to start producing and developing their own medical devices. Suitably skilled biomedical engineers are needed for this sort of innovation to take root.
Academies simply don’t know how they’re doing when it comes to the representation of women compared to their counterparts within the science-policy environment.
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari is one of many African leaders to have gone abroad for medical treatment.
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Health care systems in many African countries are very poor. Instead of fixing them, many African leaders seek medical attention abroad incurring huge bills which are ultimately paid by taxpayers.
The water tower in Flint, Michigan, where lead-contaminated water led to a health crisis in 2014.
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Congressional inability to devise a health care plan for the US is not the only impediment to good health care. Contaminated water pipes and old bridges are also roadblocks.
Integration within the East African Community has been sticky. The fact that Kenya’s main political parties haven’t spelled out their policies on the community in their manifestos is a worry.
Finding Zika’s roots can help contain the virus.
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The 2015 Zika outbreak in South America brought the virus to global attention. But tracing the history of the virus in West Africa can give clues to tackling future outbreaks.
Court proceedings are rarely sensitive to the inequalities faced by women and girls in Africa.
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African leaders need to up their health allocations to help the new World Health Organisation Director-General meet his health care targets for the continent.
Almost all production of freshwater fish includes Tilapia.
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