What South Africa has learnt about COVID and what the next steps could be
After around two years of hyper vigilance and restrictions, pandemic fatigue is beginning to set in. Globally, there are waves...
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Ultra-processed foods: global analysis shows they aren’t well sign-posted
Straightforward guidance about ultra-processed foods is rare in national dietary guidelines. Only seven countries refer to “ultra-processed foods” explicitly. They...
Time for the UK to say goodbye to drive-throughs: for the sake of our environment, our health – and our culture
Drive-throughs – services that let people order and collect food and drink without needing to leave their cars – are...
I’m an addiction researcher and therapist. Here’s why promoting sober ‘dry months’ bothers me.
Campaigns that challenge people to abstain from alcohol for one month — often in support of a good cause —...
Lessons from the DRC’s 10th Ebola epidemic: the people may know best
The tenth Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) was declared in North Kivu on 1 August...
Sex ed needs to talk about pleasure and fun. Safe sex depends on it and condom use rises
A focus on pleasure in sexual health education can increase condom use and enhance positive attitudes toward safe sex, according...
Model of new TB vaccine shows its potential impact and value in South Africa and India
Two years of battling COVID-19 has been bad news for tuberculosis (TB) programmes. Respiratory clinicians and researchers have had their...
COVID vaccines: African countries need to fix their distribution chains
Sub-Saharan Africa still has too few vaccines for too few people. Delivering more inoculations to the region deserves top priority....
The COVIDSafe app was designed to help contact tracers. We crunched the numbers to see what really happened
Early in the pandemic, the COVIDSafe app was designed as a tool to improve contact tracing. And a multimedia campaign...
South Africa undertakes its most important census since the end of apartheid
Statistics South Africa has embarked on its once-a-decade process to count all people in the country - including non-citizens. Census...
