To eliminate female genital mutilation by 2030, progress would need to be 27 times faster. Understanding shifting trends behind this practice is a start.
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Caesarean section births are often thought to be safer. In fact they disrupt the natural bond between mother and baby and can interrupt brain development.
Forty million children are born in malaria areas across Africa each year. Two new vaccines are important weapons in the fight against the disease.
For villagers in remote areas in Sierra Leone it takes a lot of time and money to get to a clinic. So the COVID-19 vaccine came to the people.
There is only one audiologist for every million people in Africa. Pioneering digital devices help close the gap.
Rural Tanzanians and those living in the city eat unhealthy diets, but their circumstances are very different.
Emotional, violent and sexual abuse are rife at an age when victims are scarred for life.
The potential repeal of the ban on female genital mutilation poses a threat to the well-being of girls in The Gambia.
Same-sex relationships in Zulu culture are perceived as taboo and unAfrican. Some men who have sex with men avoid seeking care at health clinics.
Water can make you ill for two reasons: it can contain toxic chemicals or pathogenic organisms.
Preterm babies born after 28 weeks can often survive with relatively simple medical care. Here is how.
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Postdoctoral Fellow, University of South Africa
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Director of Programs, Human Rights Center; Research Professor of Law, University of Dayton School of Law, University of Dayton
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Research Scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
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Professor, University of the Witwatersrand
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Paediatrician, Paediatric Pulmonologist, Associate Professor, Department of Paediatrics & Extraordinary Professor, Department of Immunology, University of Pretoria
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Professor of Obstetrics at King’s College London and chair of the FIGO Preterm Birth Committee (2012-23)., King's College London
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Chair: School of Medicine and Head of Department: Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Pretoria
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Clinical Research Fellow, King's College London
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Professor in Audiology in the Department of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, University of Pretoria
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Research fellow, Centre for Social Research, University of Malawi
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Oxford
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Senior Researcher, University of Bonn
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Principal Medical Scientist and Head of Laboratory for Antimalarial Resistance Monitoring and Malaria Operational Research, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Professor of International Development Studies, University of Portsmouth