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Priority #1: Let’s feed everyone
Unemployed young people are being trained in urban farming in the Philippi Horticultural Area. Hallelujah!
Covid-19 recovery is a chance to improve the African food system
The African food system was broken before Covid-19. Recovery efforts should be geared towards creating a better future.
Let’s flatten the TB curve next
The global response to Covid-19 has been inspiring. Meanwhile TB (for which there has been a treatment for 100 years!) is still the leading cause of death in South Africa
Vaccines matter now more than ever
All eyes are on Covid-19, which puts the victories that are won every day over vaccine-preventable diseases in low-income settings under threat
Exit lockdown, enter crossroads
At times, the end of lockdown looks like a shimmering light on the horizon. At other times, it seems like we are looking down the barrel
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Malaria still kills 1,100 people a day
The fight against malaria, which still kills 1,100 people every day, can’t afford to lose resources to the fight against Covid-19
Doctors call for end to hard lockdown
SA doctors call for lockdown to be eased, warning that ‘our economy and our healthcare system will be destroyed if we wait much longer’
Daring to explore a (post-Covid) dream world
Before Covid-19 highlighted the resilience and the fragility of our system these four experts dared to dream of a different way … and live it
MEC Mbombo lights up Parliament in more ways than one
Dr Nomafrench Mbombo, MEC for Health in the Western Cape, lit up a small gathering at the South African Parliament on Tuesday night with a short,
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