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The aim of South Africa’s five-year plan to improve the country’s response to TB, HIV and sexually transmitted infections includes providing better access to healthcare, particularly for vulnerable groups like sex workers. As the eighth national Aids Conference kicks off in Durban, South Africa, Susann Huschke shares an open letter from Zenande Dlamini, a sex work activist, who has concerns about shortfalls in the plan.
Across Africa people with albinism face discrimination as well as violence. Based on a study in Tanzania, Jean Burke concludes that the media has a vital role to play in dispelling myths and helping to protect people living with albinism.
Eskom, South Africa’s power utility and largest state owned enterprise, is drowning in a pool of scandals. Owen Skae argues that they’re the result of a failure by the ministry of public enterprises, the board and the CEO to uphold clearly laid out corporate governance rules.
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Activists supporting the decriminalisation of sex work at the 21st International AIDS Conference in Durban, South Africa.
International AIDS Society/Abhi Indrarajan
Susann Huschke, University of the Witwatersrand
South Africa has launched a plan to tackle HIV, TB and sexually transmitted infections -- but much depends on its implementation over the next five years.
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Health + Medicine
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Jean Burke, Australian Catholic University
Tanzania has one of the highest rates of albinism in the world. The media in the country has an important role to play in protecting them from harm.
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Business + Economy
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Owen Skae, Rhodes University
The scandals surrounding South Africa's power utility, Eskom, was caused by the neglect of corporate governance rules by the board, the executive authority and the public enterprises minister.
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Environment + Energy
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Kelly Austin, Lehigh University
Human alteration of the natural environment will make malaria increasingly difficult to control in the years to come.
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Michael Durrant, Bangor University
The Booker Prize-winning novelist's Reith lectures explore the complex relationship between historical fact and fiction.
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Panos Athanasopoulos, Lancaster University
Learning languages rewires the brain and changes how we perceive time.
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