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COVID-19: How to reduce risk in the holiday season
Many Nigerians are expected to travel during the Christmas holiday season. Photo by Benson Ibeabuchi/AFP via Getty ImagesDuring the festive season, travel and gatherings are sometimes unavoidable, even...
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COVID-19 immunity and reinfection: why it's still essential to take precautions
There have been a few accounts of patients who have tested positive, then negative, then positive again for COVID-19.ShutterstockWith some viruses, once you have been infected and have developed...
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How COVID-19 puts women at more risk than men in Gauteng, South Africa
Women are more likely to be visiting public health facilities to access healthcare for themselves or for people in their care.ShutterstockThe COVID-19 pandemic has revealed stark inequalities and...
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Here's where efforts to end HIV in eastern and southern Africa must focus
The mortality rate of AIDS-related deaths remains high among adolescent girls and young women.ShutterstockThe World AIDS Day commemoration of 2020 took place in the midst of a global pandemic. It...
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African countries differ widely in prenatal HIV testing: why it matters
Women who had a secondary or higher level of education were more likely to test for HIV than women who had no formal education.ShutterstockThe introduction of antiretroviral drugs has resulted in a...
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No country is an island: collective approach to COVID-19 vaccines is the only...
COVAX aims to accelerate the development and manufacture of COVID-19 vaccines and guarantee access to all countriesPhoto illustration by STR/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesAs countries across the world begin...
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South Africa failed to get its act together on vaccines: here's how
South Africa's Minister of Health, Dr Zweli Mkhize (centre). The government has been criticised for not having an actionable plan on vaccines.Photo by Darren Stewart/Gallo Images via Getty ImagesSouth...
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Food and healthcare in war-torn Tigray: preliminary insights on what's at stake
This image was taken at the Hawzien market in Tigray, two years before the war which has put millions in need of emergency food assistance. Oscar Espinosa/ShutterstockIt is now over two months since a...
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Some key questions answered on COVID-19 vaccines for African countries
A healthcare worker fills a syringe with a dose of the Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine. Nick Potts/PA Images via Getty ImagesVaccines for COVID-19 are generating a lot of talk. To shed some...
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How COVID-19 restrictions prevent Nairobi's sex workers from accessing vital...
A person living with HIV shows her clinic appointment and anti-retroviral drugs regimen card. TONY KARUMBA/AFP/GettyImagesSex workers are one of the most vulnerable social groups in the world. They...
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COVID-19 policy briefs must be realistic: a review by young southern African...
Hand hygiene is important to fight COVID-19 but how can you do that without waterShutterstockJust over a year after the coronavirus was first reported in China countries are still reeling from its...
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Vaccine production in South Africa: how an industry in its infancy can be...
South Africa does not have large-scale vaccine manufacturing capability.ShutterstockThe issue of vaccine production has become a topic of hot debate following the approval of treatments for COVID-19....
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South Africa's immunisation record risks being dented by anti-vaccination views
Vaccine hesitancy is a growing public health problem. Sharon Seretlo/Gallo Images via Getty ImagesVaccination has eradicated smallpox, nearly eradicated polio, and led to major reductions of serious...
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South African scientists who discovered new COVID-19 variant share what they...
Health care workers and patients in the temporary outside area Steve Biko Academic Hospital created to screen and treat suspected Covid-19 cases in Pretoria.Alet Pretorius/Gallo Images via Getty...
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How one South African employer helped its staff get healthier and why it's...
The workplace can make a big contribution to behaviour change.Darcelle SchouwNon-communicable diseases account for half of all deaths in South Africa. Cardiovascular diseases are the biggest...
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The role of bias in how women are treated during childbirth: a Kenyan case study
GettyImagesGlobal maternal mortality is unacceptably high. Around 810 women die every day from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth. A number of factors drive maternal mortality. In...
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Many old people in Ghana need daily care. How the government can help
Professional home care for the elderly in Ghana has been ignored.Kwame Amo/ShutterstockThe world’s population is growing older– and that includes African countries, although they remain primarily...
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Innovation -- and research -- are key to killing off neglected tropical...
A laboratory technician patient samples at the Amudat Hospital, Uganda. Laboratories are central to the delivery of high quality data in clinical trials.Paul Kamau As a young medical doctor over 30...
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Medical volunteers in rural Zambia: learning from attitudes to angels and...
Medical volunteers have been a common sight in African countries like Zambia since the colonial era.Engraving from The Illustrated London News, volume 96, No 2654, March 1, 1890/Getty ImagesIn the past...
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Results from Novavax vaccine trials in the UK and South Africa differ: why,...
Study shows that the Novavax vaccine is effective against the dominant variant of COVID-19 in South Africa.Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesTo fast track the response to the COVID-19 pandemic, a...
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