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A look back at Ebola
[Jennifer Lazuta] The past year has been a roller coaster ride for West Africa, with Ebola coming and going and coming and going, and then coming once again... read


HIV/AIDS
How a drug can help prevent 5000 girls being infected with HIV every week

Sinead Delany-Moretlwe and Deborah Baron

South Africa has became one of the first African countries to license a fixed-dose combination of anti-retrovirals to be used as an oral pre-exposure prophylaxis... read
Climate Change
Why African countries need to make plans to cope with rising temperatures

Rebecca Garland

Southern Africa has been experiencing high temperatures in recent months. In October, Zimbabwe experienced a heatwave with temperatures in Kariba reaching 45°C... read
Exercise Science
Hoverboards and health: how good for you is this year's hottest trend?

Andrew Maynard

Walking across campus to my office each morning this semester, I've found it hard to ignore the growing number of students using hoverboards to get around. These two-wheel self-balancing boards (they don't really hover, Back-to-the-Future-style) are one of the hottest gadgets this holiday season... read
Food Security
Poor nutrition stalks SADC

Hlupekile Nkunika

According to the SADC regional vulnerability assessment analysis, about 30 percent of the region's population is malnourished. Malnutrition is a critical risk factor in most countries... read
Health & Welfare
Nelson Mandela Prize winners feted

Bo Li

The planting of a small food garden this summer just outside United Nations headquarters in New York was more than a decorative effort by a gardener with a green thumb. It was one of many 'Time to Serve' activities in the worldwide 'Take Action, Inspire Change' campaign motivated by former South African president, the late Nelson Mandela... read
School nutrition reduces stunting and obesity
Research has found that both lunch only and lunch and breakfast in-school nutrition programmes significantly improve the health outcomes of children living in poor conditions and have promising educational effects... read
Public Health
What lies beneath: the bugs lurking in your swimming pool

Simon Reid and Una Ryan

Summer holidays are upon us, and many of us will finally get to spend some lazy days by the pool. But how can you ensure this pleasant experience doesn't leave you with any nasty surprises? read
You can thaw and refreeze meat: five food safety myths busted

Cathy Moir

This time of year, most fridges are stocked up with food and drinks to share with family and friends. Let's not make ourselves and our guests sick by getting things wrong when preparing and serving food... read
Business
Branding lessons learned from religion (Part 1)

Jimmy Tembo

When we try to find the common denominator between a business and church, we easily appreciate the fact that the first intention is to attract people... read
Four top tips to avoid startup failure

Endri Hasanaj

Business startups are a spin of the wheel, a bigger gamble than betting on a racehorse that's primed for the glue factory... read
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