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South Africa and Brazil are facing sustained declines in vaccination coverage. Dwayne Senior/Bloomberg/Getty Images

Vaccine hesitancy can’t be boiled down to a single factor: what we learnt in South Africa and Brazil

Different social realities lead to different forms of vaccine hesitancy.
Wall of remembrance in Lagos for missing Nigerian schoolgirls. Beendy234 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0

Conflict hits schooling hardest where children are the target – study

When armed groups use child recruitment or sexual violence, the impact of conflict on schooling is much more severe than in conflicts without these tactics.
Workers harvesting grapes for wine production in the Western Cape province of South Africa. Photo by David Silverman/Getty Images

Global supply chains keep workers poor: three case studies show how the cycle can be broken

Global supply chains lead to companies capturing most of the value, while suppliers – and especially workers – get a much smaller share.
Adult employed men in mobile, male dominated industries, like construction, are at particular risk of HIV/Aids. They move between work sites and home, between long-term partners and casual or paid encounters. anilakkus/ iStock / Getty Images Plus

HIV in South Africa: why rolling out a groundbreaking new shot will miss a critical group of men

Targeting men who move around for work is crucial for the success of a new HIV/Aids treatment.
Sudanese Copts attend Christmas midnight mass at Khartoum’s Martyrs Church on 7 January 2011. Getty Images/ Khaled Desouki / Contributor

In Sudan, a migrant community reveals a resistance to malaria: the genetic study helping shape medicine

Understanding genetics can help explain differences in disease susceptibility across populations, informing medical research and public health strategies.
Rocks and mud remain where houses used to stand and families used to live in Chimanimani, Zimbabwe. Ashraf Hendricks/GroundUp

Climate disasters don’t just destroy homes, they change lives forever. We spoke with cyclone survivors in Zimbabwe

Disaster recovery agencies and governments must pay more attention to survivors’ invisible losses: grief, broken communities and disrupted identities.

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