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Social ties influence people’s attitudes to how resources around them are managed. Fiona Nunan looks at the networks that connect people living in communities on the shores of Lake Victoria. Understanding these could help governments design development policies that build on connections people already have, a crucial step if the lake’s dwindling resources are going to be protected.
South Africa is expecting to reduce the number of new HIV infections dramatically in the next five years. For this to happen it needs to do four things writes Tendesayi Kufa-Chakezha. It must get HIV positive people onto antiretroviral treatment, it must make sure they stay on the treatment, and that the disease remains under control. And lastly it must strengthen its strategies around prevention.
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Lake Victoria sustains about 200,000 fishers.
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Fiona Nunan, University of Birmingham
Social ties between Lake Victoria's fisherfolk are critical for gaining access to credit, employment, maintaining reliable and skilled labour and access to markets.
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Health + Medicine
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Tendesayi Kufa-Chakezha, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
South Africa has made tremendous progress towards meeting the 90-90-90 targets but there are some challenges preventing it from reaching the goals set by UNAIDS.
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Business + Economy
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Tahiru Azaaviele Liedong, University of Bath
Public sector corruption is a major challenge to doing business in Africa and players are mostly ill-equipped to deal with it. Business schools can teach the skills to tackle it.
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Politics + Society
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Beverley Milton-Edwards, Queen's University Belfast
Much of Sinai is almost beyond Egyptian state control altogether.
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From our international editions
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Peter Gottschalk, Wesleyan University
A new attack on a Sufi mosque in Egypt drives home the hatred of Islamic State and other some other Muslim groups for the Sufi traditions of inclusiveness and mystical worship.
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Sara Konrath, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis; Femida Handy, University of Pennsylvania
Donors who support charitable causes have a 'taste' for giving, researchers found.
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Hua Lu, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Linda Wiratan, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Precisely calibrated timekeepers are found in organisms from all domains of life. Biologists are studying how they influence plant/pathogen interactions – what they learn could lead to human medicines.
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Ian Whittaker, Nottingham Trent University
Easy experiments that show the Earth is round.
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