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Each life lost to AIDS is a life too many. As donor funds dry up, Africa needs new ways to fight this epidemic.
People are at the heart of the HIV pandemic, so it’s important to understand how they make protection decisions.
The Dakar Biennale is a gathering of artists, curators, academics and art lovers with a unique form of generosity and inclusion.
The death of six children from a pesticide galvanised the South African government to declare a national disaster.
Since the 1980s very few antibiotics have been approved. One of the reasons is that there is not enough investment in the sector.
In 2022 2.4 million new-born babies died of sepsis worldwide. Antimicrobial resistance could pose a further risk.
The outlook for the tobacco industry is uncertain. This is unlikely to change.
Ten million people could die in 2050 if there are no decisive efforts to contain antibiotic resistance.
Sewage leaks, rundown communal outdoor toilets and breakdowns in water systems are causing public health disasters across Africa.
Nigeria describes Lakurawa as a new terror group. It is not. It’s been operating along the Nigeria-Niger border since 1999, an indication of the region’s growing ungoverned spaces.
Houseflies greatly amplify the risk of human exposure to harmful microorganisms. Flies caught in three hospices carried microbes that may be resistant to antibiotics.
Evidence suggests that a low-carbon transition could worsen gender inequalities if not properly addressed in climate policy.
When occurring in nature, mpox is mostly confined to the humid forest regions of west and central Africa.
Caring economies are those in which money and markets serve rather than undermine the wellbeing of people and planet.
If Nigeria doesn’t roll out clean fuels fast, its carbon dioxide emissions from cooking on firewood will triple by 2060, new research has found.
A just transition goes beyond ‘greening’ energy systems. It must also focus on the unrecognised labour – mostly of women – that makes green energy industries possible.
Natural ‘plastic eaters’ could help in the fight against pollution in Africa.
The green talent in short supply includes wind and solar farm technicians and engineers, solar panel installers, green energy auditors, hydrogen fuel cell specialists, and data scientists.
Climate change affects women’s health, livelihoods and security disproportionately because of gender inequality and patriarchal structures.
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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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Medical scientist, 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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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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Professor of medicine and deputy director of the Desmond Tutu HIV Centre at the Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town
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Regional Adviser, Immunisation, WHO Regional Office for Africa, Stellenbosch University
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Pro Vice-Chancellor, Climate, Sustainability and Inequality and Director, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Medical Entomologist at the School of Biological Sciences, University of Nairobi
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Research associate at African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town
