July 12, 2022
Africa: What Does It Mean to Be a 'Person'? Different Cultures Have Different Answers
Opponents and proponents of abortion rights often frame their positions in terms of two fundamental values: "life" or "choice." Read more »
Africa: Africa Is a Treasure Trove of Medicinal Plants - Here Are Seven That Are Popular
Plants have directly contributed to the development of important drugs. The antimalarial treatment artemisinin, pain medication morphine, and cancer chemotherapy taxol are just… Read more »
July 11, 2022
Africa: Covid Vaccines and Pregnancy - A Review of the Evidence Shows They Are Safe
COVID vaccines have been contentious ever since they were developed in response to the coronavirus pandemic, though the evidence is that they are safe and effective. One of the… Read more »
July 08, 2022
Africa: Taking a Mental Health Day Can Be Good for You - Here's How to Make the Most of One
When you're feeling sick, you know it's probably best to take the day off from work in order to recover and feel better. But while we may know how important it is to take care of… Read more »
June 29, 2022
Africa: 'Cognitive Immobility' - When You're Mentally Trapped in a Place From Your Past
If you have moved from one country to another, you may have left something behind - be it a relationship, a home, a feeling of safety or a sense of belonging. Because of this, you… Read more »
July 07, 2022
Africa: There's No Cure for Sickle Cell Disease, but Spotting It Early Can Improve Treatment
Most of the global cases of sickle cell disease are diagnosed in African countries. The Economist Intelligence Unit - the research and analysis division of the Economist media… Read more »
June 30, 2022
Africa: Viruses Can Change Your Scent to Make You More Attractive to Mosquitoes, New Research Finds
Mosquitoes are the world's deadliest animal. Over 1 million deaths per year are attributed to mosquito-borne diseases, including malaria, yellow fever, dengue fever, Zika and… Read more »
Central Africa: Covid Hurt West and Central Africa's Small-Scale Fishers. They Need More Support
From Senegal through Ghana to Cameroon, small-scale fishing is both a livelihood and a way of life for people in coastal parts of West and Central Africa, with more than two… Read more »
June 29, 2022
Africa: Five Actions to Prepare African Countries Better for the Next Pandemic
Globally, cases of COVID-19 and related deaths are lower in June 2022 than they were at the beginning of the year. But the infection numbers are rising. Africa is no exception. Read more »
June 28, 2022
Africa: Cooking With 'Dirty' Fuels Affects Women's Mental Health #AfricaClimateCrisis
About 2.6 billion people - nearly half of the global population, most of them in Africa, Asia and central and south America - rely on biomass fuels, like wood and charcoal, or… Read more »
Africa: What It Would Take to Set Up an African Drug Discovery Ecosystem
Africa has great potential for drug discovery. The continent has natural resources, indigenous knowledge and human capacity. And it has the need: it bears more than 20% of the… Read more »
June 26, 2022
South Africa: Male Voices Dominated South African Covid Reporting - That Has to Change
The onset of the COVID pandemic and the many months of uncertainty, anxiety and push for scientific breakthroughs sent journalists all over the world on the hunt for expert voices.… Read more »
June 22, 2022
Africa: At What Point Is a Disease Deemed to Be a Global Threat? Here's the Answer
Whenever there is an outbreak of a disease in the world - such as monkeypox - it is up to the World Health Organization (WHO) to consider what sort of weight to give it, including… Read more »
Africa: Triple Punch of Shocks Threatens to Upend Debt Sustainability and Recovery
Food and fuel price increases and the aftermath of the COVID pandemic are really just the start of the story when it comes to fiscal shocks which have exacerbated government debt… Read more »
June 20, 2022
Africa: What's in a Name? Why Giving Monkeypox a New One Is a Good Idea
In its latest update on monkey pox in mid-June, the World Health Organization (WHO) said that cases had been reported from 42 member states across five of its regions - the… Read more »
South Africa: Supporting Women With Mental Ill-Health in Pregnancy and After Birth - Lessons From South Africa
Women in low- and middle-income countries experience high levels of common mental disorders - anxiety and depression - during pregnancy and the first year after birth. The… Read more »
June 16, 2022
West Africa: How Climate Change, Overfishing and Covid Drove Irregular Migration From West Africa
Throughout 2020, 23,023 irregular immigrants arrived on the coast of the Canary Islands, 757% more than the previous year. In 2021 the figure fell slightly to 22,316 people but it… Read more »
Nigeria: Nigeria Must Improve Health Services for Mothers and Babies - Here's What Can Change
Nigeria is one of the largest contributors to maternal and newborn (neonatal) deaths in the world. It's estimated that in 2017 the country accounted for more than 20% of the global… Read more »
June 14, 2022
Africa: Air Pollution in Fast-Growing Cities Presents a Risk of Premature Death
Ten more African cities have signed on to the C40 Clean Air Cities Declaration to improve air quality. C40 is an international group of mayors collaborating to make cities more… Read more »
June 13, 2022
Nigeria: Molecular Research Could Help Nigeria Solve a Host of Health Problems
Our world and everything in it is made up of innumerable tiny molecules. These molecules are the smallest units of chemical compounds or living things. Viruses, bacteria,… Read more »
June 08, 2022
Africa: Here's What Science Says About Eating Salad Before Carbs
Biochemist and author of the Glucose Revolution Jessie Inchauspé says tweaking your diet can change your life. Read more »
Africa: Covid-19 - Six Ways Long-Term Smell Loss Can Affect You
Early in the pandemic, multiple studies showed that about half of people with COVID lost their sense of smell (called anosmia) at some point during the course of infection. Roughly… Read more »
June 06, 2022
Southern Africa: HIV Control Approaches May Not Work for TB - Lessons From South Africa and Zambia
Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the most deadly infectious diseases. Around 9.9 million people around the world fell ill with the disease in 2020 and an estimated 1.5 million people… Read more »
June 02, 2022
Africa: Should We Protect Nature for Its Own Sake? for Its Economic Value? Because It Makes Us Happy? Yes #AfricaClimateCrisis
As spring phases into summer in North America, with trees flowering and birds migrating, nature seems abundant. In fact, however, the Earth is losing animals, birds, reptiles and… Read more »
June 05, 2022
South Africa: Covid Left South African Pupils Far Behind in Maths and Language Skills
Learning to read, write, count and calculate forms the basis for all other learning in school and beyond. Pupils start to learn these basic skills in the first three years of… Read more »