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In Africa, fermented foods hold great cultural significance and health benefits, yet have not been thoroughly researched.
The world’s stockpile of cholera vaccines has run dry, bad news for cholera-ravaged southern Africa. Why is this and what is being done to address vaccine shortages in Africa?
Sub-Saharan countries have unprecedented opportunities to substantially improve health outcomes within a generation, largely with their own resources.
The new director-general of the World Health Organisation has set universal health coverage as a priority. There are several ways to make headway with this goal.
A new polio outbreak in Nigeria has hampered the country’s efforts to be declared polio free by 2017.
Why are so many people in dire need of pain relief unable to access the powerful painkillers that are so commonly prescribed in the United States?
There are several natural remedies that have can help reduce cancer cells.
Across the world scientists are trying to find a new drug that the malaria carrying parasite will struggle to develop a resistance to.
The digging of wells in Africa has often been thought of as the solution to helping rural women walking to get water, but they may cause more harm than good.
Healthcare that everyone can access is an important step in bridging the inequality in a country. In reality though, its hard to implement properly.
Eradicating the last 1% of polio cases in the world requires an endgame plan centred on immunisation and surveillance.
The positive impact of the polio eradication initiatives on the continent can be felt across the health sector in other health programmes.
Nigeria’s strategy to eliminate polio was so effective that it was duplicated to deal with ebola. So why did the country take so long to get off the list of polio-endemic countries?
It’s been one year since the last polio case was reported in Africa. If the continent keeps this up, it could be declared polio free by 2018.
Top contributors
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Extraordinary Professor, Global Health, Stellenbosch University; South African Medical Research Council
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Fellow, Nigerian Academy of Science
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Associate Professor (Biochemistry) DST/NRF South African Research Chair (SARChI) in Sustainable Malaria Control, University of Pretoria
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Molecular Parasitology, Department of Biochemistry, University of Pretoria
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Senior lecturer, Nelson Mandela University
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Research Fellow, Stellenbosch University
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PhD (Human Physiology), Cape Peninsula University of Technology
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Resident Physician in Emergency Medicine, Brown University
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Dornsife Endowed Professor of Global Health, Drexel University
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Joint Director, Research and Policy, Public Health Foundation of India
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Research Officer / EIDM Specialist, University of Cape Town
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Professor of Internal Medicine, Makerere University
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Director and Handa Professor of Global Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
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Senior lecturer, University of South Africa
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Public Health Nutrition Researcher, University of South Africa