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Healthcare

South African households are changing as birth rates come down

6 Mar 2024

#COP28: 7 food and agriculture innovations needed to protect the climate and feed a rapidly growing world

Agriculture

#COP28: 7 food and agriculture innovations needed to protect the climate and feed a rapidly growing world

Paul Winters 4 Dec 2023

Source: Advin Healthcare.

Healthcare

TB vaccine: WHO expert explains why it's taken 100 years for a scientific breakthrough, and why it's such a big deal

Charles Shey Wiysonge 8 Nov 2023

Healthcare

World Patient Day focuses on safe and respectful childbirth

17 Sep 2021

Energy & Mining

Research exposes negative economic impact of offshore drilling

26 Apr 2021

ECD: Building blocks for lifelong learning

Education

ECD: Building blocks for lifelong learning

12 Nov 2020

Child mortality rates in the country are high. John Fredricks/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Healthcare

How smartphones could help improve child health in Malawi

Griphin Baxter Chirambo et al 6 Oct 2020

Children’s health and nutrition is severely affected by the pandemic. Marco Longari/AFP via Getty Images

Healthcare

South Africa needs a plan to protect children's health beyond Covid-19

Ute Feucht 28 Aug 2020

Minister of Home Affairs Aaron Motsoaledi can make a simple policy change that can allow South Africa to implement a health programme that will be a model for the world. Photo: Tariro Washinyira

Healthcare

Here's a quick health win for government

GroundUp editors 25 Aug 2020

A volunteer receives an injection from a medical worker during the country’s first human clinical trial for a potential vaccine against Covid-19 in Soweto, South Africa. Felix Dlangamandla/Beeld/Gallo Images via Getty Images

Healthcare

Covid-19 vaccine: the challenges of running a trial in the middle of a pandemic

Jeffrey Mphahlele 7 Jul 2020

Call for action to address malnutrition in all its forms

Healthcare

Call for action to address malnutrition in all its forms

Issued by Association for Dietetics in South Africa 17 Jun 2020

Africa Food Security 11 via

Agriculture

The impact of Covid-19 on food security in Africa

Professor Njuguna S. Ndung'u 11 Jun 2020

Debacle over child malnutrition rates belittles suffering

Healthcare

Debacle over child malnutrition rates belittles suffering

28 May 2020

Healthcare

New estimates show 14.8 million children globally are HIV-exposed but uninfected

Amy Slogrove & Kathleen M Powis 13 Jan 2020

Image source: Getty/Gallo

Healthcare

6 ways to speed up the UN's health SDGs in Africa

Mathieu Lamiaux 7 Jan 2020

New report: Climate change threatens progress across SDGs

ESG & Sustainability

New report: Climate change threatens progress across SDGs

11 Jul 2019

Image source: Getty/Gallo

Energy & Mining

Gold mining reduces infant mortality rate

3 May 2019

World Bank unveils plan to strengthen human capital in Africa

ESG & Sustainability

World Bank unveils plan to strengthen human capital in Africa

12 Apr 2019

Doctors at a hospital in Kisumu, Kenya. Shutterstock

Healthcare

Scorecards can help measure health outcomes. An East Africa case study

Wilfred Senyoni 8 Apr 2019

In 50 years, Kenya has experienced an overall decline in under 5 mortality. Shutterstock

Healthcare

What mapping Kenya's child deaths for 50 years revealed - and why it matters

Peter Macharia & Emelda Okiro 19 Feb 2019

Child ready to receive measles vaccine, Bissau, Guinea-Bissau. Christine Stabell Benn, Author provided

Healthcare

Vaccines have health effects beyond protecting against target diseases

Christine Stabell Benn 15 Jan 2019

IoT is a prerequisite for enabling sustainable development

ICT

IoT is a prerequisite for enabling sustainable development

Reshaad Sha 19 Sep 2018

Dr Zulfiqar A. Bhutta, founding director of the University’s Centre of Excellence in Women and Child Health

Healthcare

Conflict and its toll on child health

7 Sep 2018

Education

It's not a matter of why we should empower women at work - it's how

Jackie Carroll, Issued by Juta and Company 14 Aug 2018

Photo: Bhekisisa Centre for Health Journalism

Healthcare

Rands and sense: Why the National Health Insurance may lead to better health budgets

Natasha Salant 16 May 2018

By David Shankbone, CC BY 3.0,

ESG & Sustainability

Davos grapples with inequality

Michele Gilman 29 Jan 2018

IHI Africa Forum on Quality and Safety in Healthcare to feature international health experts

Healthcare

IHI Africa Forum on Quality and Safety in Healthcare to feature international health experts

Issued by COHSASA 17 Jan 2018

Is SA's healthcare getting better?

Healthcare

Is SA's healthcare getting better?

Issued by Insight Survey 28 Aug 2017

#WomensMonth: Illiteracy rates among women are falling: why isn't this good news?

Education

#WomensMonth: Illiteracy rates among women are falling: why isn't this good news?

Jackie Carroll 10 Aug 2017

New study: Fiscal interventions could ease SA's public health burden

Healthcare

New study: Fiscal interventions could ease SA's public health burden

25 Jan 2017

How Africa can perform better in the new round of UN development goals

ESG & Sustainability

How Africa can perform better in the new round of UN development goals

Ademola Adenle 18 Jan 2017

Slum health is not urban health: why we must distinguish between the two

ESG & Sustainability

Slum health is not urban health: why we must distinguish between the two

Alex Ezeh, Blessing Mberu and Tilahun Haregu 20 Dec 2016

Are primary clinics better than nothing to prevent mother and infant mortality?

Healthcare

Are primary clinics better than nothing to prevent mother and infant mortality?

15 Dec 2016

Marketing & Media

An integrated approach to Africa's development goals

1 Nov 2016

Image source: Wikimedia Commons

ESG & Sustainability

300 million children breathe heavily toxic air: UNICEF

1 Nov 2016

Entrepreneurship

Zambia highlights key essentials to Africa's development

26 Oct 2016

We're living longer, but are sicker

Healthcare

We're living longer, but are sicker

7 Oct 2016

Etisalat partners to launch special SMS midwife service

Marketing & Media

Etisalat partners to launch special SMS midwife service

14 Sep 2016

Source: Bhekisisa Centre of Health Journalism/ Amos Gumulira

Healthcare

Malawi's rickshaw ambulances cycle the sick to care

Ina Skosana 12 Sep 2016

New study shows undernutrition taking a toll on Ghana's economy

Marketing & Media

New study shows undernutrition taking a toll on Ghana's economy

8 Aug 2016

Marketing & Media

Social entrepreneurship key to maternal and child health in Africa

25 Jul 2016

Nairobi start-up garage

Marketing & Media

Kenya, Uganda teams chosen for start-up AI investment

20 Apr 2016

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Agriculture

Poor nutrition stalks SADC

Hlupekile Nkunika 31 Dec 2015

AU summit highlights impact of child marriage

ESG & Sustainability

AU summit highlights impact of child marriage

Khululiwe Mabaso 2 Dec 2015

Food insecurity is a reality for millions of South Africans living in informal settlements

Agriculture

Food insecurity is a reality for millions of South Africans living in informal settlements

Nisha Naicker 13 Oct 2015

Food insecurity is a reality for millions of South Africans living in informal settlements

ESG & Sustainability

Food insecurity is a reality for millions of South Africans living in informal settlements

Nisha Naicker 12 Oct 2015

Maternal and Newborn Health Innovations Project launches in Kenya

Healthcare

Maternal and Newborn Health Innovations Project launches in Kenya

25 Sep 2015

Journalists shine at Promasidor Quill Awards

Marketing & Media

Journalists shine at Promasidor Quill Awards

Olushola Bello 1 Jun 2015

Higher quality of healthcare on the horizon

Healthcare

Higher quality of healthcare on the horizon

20 May 2015

UN celebrates Yvonne Chaka Chaka 10th year working on development issues

ESG & Sustainability

UN celebrates Yvonne Chaka Chaka 10th year working on development issues

9 Apr 2015