Although men make up two-thirds of HIV-related deaths, there are not enough services geared towards helping them.
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In Ethiopia health extension workers in rural areas fulfill an essential service - but they feel they have no career path.
With one can of cool drink containing six teaspoons of sugar – your recommended sugar intake for the day – there is a need to reduce the number of sugar-sweetened beverages South Africans consume.
Antibiotics are used extensively in Africa because of the continent’s high disease burden. This also means that resistance is high. Steps are being taken to raise awareness and encourage prudent use.
Africa’s pharmaceutical industry has mushroomed in the last ten years. But its ability to keep pace with demand is being held back by a number of factors, including a shortage of specialists.
Women in northern Nigeria are not going for cancer screenings early enough. There are myriad social, cultural and economic reasons for this. But early detection would save their lives.
Drones could provide an essential cargo-carrying service in rural areas where there are fewer clinics, less healthcare workers and limited transport services.
Africa faces the monumental task of reducing its maternal deaths by three-quarters if it is to meet the Sustainable Development Goals around maternal mortality.
Contraception gives women the choice of how many children to have and when to have them. This empowers them - but millions of women in Kenya do not have this choice.
African health leaders do not often get the chance to tell the stories of their public health achievements and challenges.
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Rheumatologist, University of Cape Town
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Board Certified Internal Medicine Physician and Public Health Scientist, MidMichigan Health, University of Michigan
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Research Fellow of International Development, Deakin University
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Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Malawi
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Clinical Senior Research Associate, MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge
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Professor-at-large, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand
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Research Fellow/Research Uptake Officer of the Health Policy Research Group, University of Nigeria
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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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Research Fellow at Monash University, Monash University
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Professor Emerita, Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania
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PhD Student, Cardiff Metropolitan University
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Extraordinary Professor, Global Health, Stellenbosch University; South African Medical Research Council
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Executive Director of the Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute, University of the Witwatersrand
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MA in Social and Psychological research by coursework
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Distinguished Professor, DST-NRF Centre of Excellence in Human Development, University of the Witwatersrand