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New research shows South Africa's levy on sugar-sweetened drinks is having an...
Photo by Peter Kovalev\TASS via Getty ImagesThree years ago South Africa introduced Africa’s first major tax on sugar-sweetened beverages based on grams of sugar. The tax now stands at about 11% of the...
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We're on the hunt for novel ways to assess the risk of type 2 diabetes
Diabetes is a growing public health burden.Ververidis Vasilis/ShutterstockType 2 diabetes is characterised by elevated blood glucose levels. This can cause complications that lead to damage to the...
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The global approach to vaccine equity is failing: additional steps that would...
Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty ImagesAccusations abound of vaccine nationalism against states that stockpile vaccines and of vaccine apartheid, as COVID-19 vaccines become concentrated...
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How Rwanda is managing its COVID-19 vaccination rollout plans
A refugee receives his first dose of coronavirus vaccine in Kigali, Rwanda. Habimana Thierry/Anadolu Agency via Getty ImagesIt’s been over a year since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic. In an amazing...
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Kenya's COVID-19 lockdown is forcing people to make difficult food and...
A man shops for vegetables in a low income settlement in Nairobi.SIMON MAINA/AFP via Getty ImagesPrior to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was estimated that 85% of people living in Nairobi’s informal...
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We mapped the landscape for taxes on sugary drinks in seven African countries
The competing interests of economic growth and public health aren't being managed well.ShutterstockPreventing diet-related noncommunicable diseases in sub-Saharan Africa and decreasing the burden on...
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Kenya doesn't have a stand-alone tax on sugary drinks: we set out to find out...
The consumption of a lot of soft drinks is linked to increased obesity. ShutterstockKenya is experiencing a rise in obesity. Overweight and obesity among women increased from 25% in 2008 to 33% in...
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Zambia must find a way to balance the economy and public health in tax policy
ShutterstockThe burden of noncommunicable diseases is growing rapidly across sub-Saharan Africa. The conditions, which include obesity and diabetes, are now leading causes of premature deaths. In...
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How Rwanda can use fiscal policies to improve health outcomes
ShutterstockRwanda’s health sector has seen many reforms over the past two decades, which have greatly improved public health indicators. Communicable diseases have declined and the maternal mortality...
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Why African countries need reliable local data on sugary drinks taxes
Appropriately designed taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages would result in proportional reductions in consumption.ShutterstockDiets in sub-Saharan Africa are changing as more countries advance from...
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African countries must consider legal challenges to sugar taxes before...
ShutterstockSales of unhealthy foods and beverages in sub-Saharan Africa are skyrocketing. This is leading to an increase in obesity related conditons such as diabetes, hypertension and cardiovascular...
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Nigeria is neglecting social workers in the fight against COVID-19. Why it...
Health workers fumigate Lagos streets during the COVID-19 lockdown in Nigeria. Photo by Adekunle Ajayi/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesIn current debates about managing and defeating COVID-19 in Nigeria, an...
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Study from Tanzania offers lessons on how to improve the health of adolescent...
Young women at an ELA club in Tanzania.Alison Wright / BRACBeing an adolescent anywhere is challenging. This is particularly true in sub-Saharan Africa, where adolescents have some of the world’s...
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What Nigeria must do to eliminate malaria: three researchers offer insights
Reliable and affordable tests are crucial in eliminating malaria Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP via Getty Images Nigeria accounts for nearly a quarter of deaths from malaria in the world – in 2018 the numbers...
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The reasons South Africa's COVID-19 vaccine programme looks bleak
Deaan Vivier/Beeld/Gallo Images via Getty ImagesSouth Africa has the highest number of COVID-19 cases on the African continent. It has more than 50,000 reported deaths. This may be an underestimate,...
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Ghana's COVID-19 vaccine rollout is struggling to keep up with its great start
Covid-19 vaccination strategies have been affected by supply woesWikimedia Commons, CC BY-NCGhana became the first country globally to receive a vaccine shipment from the COVAX facility – a global...
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COVID-19 has left Ghana's healthcare workers stressed – but simple things can...
Many healthhcare workers felt unprepared to deal with COVID-19.Seth/Xinhua via GettyStress and burnout among healthcare workers is a global crisis that predates the COVID-19 pandemic. Studies done...
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What steps must be taken to secure oxygen -- for COVID-19 patients and into...
Police personnel escort a truck carrying medical liquid oxygen to the Guru Nanak Dev hospital in Amritsar, India, on April 24, 2021. Photo by NARINDER NANU/AFP via Getty ImagesNew waves of the COVID-19...
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New drugs work against the many strains of hepatitis C found in African...
The hepatitis C virus has become extremely genetically diverse. Tashatuvango/shutterstockAround the world, 71 million people have been infected with the hepatitis C virus. The primary route of...
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Trying to understand the use of drugs by women farmers in Nigeria's Adamawa...
Increasing poverty is forcing more women to become farmers in Adamawa State.dmbaker/Getty Images A national survey on drug use in Nigeria published in 2019 shows that about 14.3 million Nigerians...
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