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ALEX VAN DEN HEEVER
Performance in South Africa's two tier health system - the public and the private - has been worsening for some time. Politicians have attempted to attribute the decline in the public sector to a myriad of ills, none of their making... read
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FRANCA NNEKA ALARIBE & KEOLEBOGILE SHIRLEY MOTAUNG
There's been a rise in recent years of biomedical engineering techniques that can restore lost tissue and bone. If you've been in a car crash, for instance, there are ways to restore or repair the lost body part or damaged tissues...read
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WATIPASO MZUNGU
Malawi registers 34,000 new HIV infections annually, with young people making up 50% of the infections...read
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Women's Month
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NICCI BOTHA
Women often talk about power in all sorts of contexts, but do we actually know what our power is? This is the question posed by Alana James, chief executive officer of The Sunflower Fund... Read
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LEIGH ANDREWS
Mandi Fine is CEO of F/NE Group Global, which turns 20 years old this August. Here, Fine explains how specific data science and storytelling skills are transforming marketing and communications, as well as future trends to embrace in any industry... Read
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Malaria
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The most-prescribed antimalarial drug is less effective in severely malnourished children, a University of Cape Town study shows... Read
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Ophthalmology
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MUSA MUTALI
Trachoma is a disease that can cause blindness and visual impairment in about 1.9-million people every year. Poor communities in rural areas of countries in Africa, Central and South America, Asia, Australia and the Middle East are most affected.... Read
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Public Health
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MADHUKAR PAI
Imagine this scenario. A couple of newly minted Master of Public Health graduates from an African university, say in Rwanda, land in Washington DC for a two-week visit... Read
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IME ARCHIBONG
Africa's young population could be its greatest asset in an age where many other regions in the world are aging as a result of declining birth rates... Read
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AIMEE LAURENCE
Startup businesses are popping up everywhere and many people, both young and old, have amazing small business ideas that could potentially change the world... Read
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LEIGH ANDREWS
With headlines about burnout and the impact of poor work-life balance a more frequent occurrence, how easy is it to just step away from your desk once you've done your eight hours for the day or 40 hours for the week, and only think about work again when you return the next day... Read
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More than 70% of small businesses struggle to survive the first two years of operation, with poor cash flow management and insufficient funding... Read
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