Africa sees more than 90% of the world’s malaria cases and deaths. Using insecticides and mosquito nets can help to prevent infection, but these methods aren’t 100% effective. It’s still necessary to design new drugs to treat the disease. Kelly Chibale, Richard Gordon and Timothy Wells explain how a collaboration they are a part of is making headway.
Almost a quarter of the people living in sub-Saharan Africa don’t have access to toilets. On World Toilet Day, a previously published article about Nigeria’s sanitation strategy and a podcast
about building the toilets of the future suggest some potential solutions.
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Africa is home to 92% of malaria cases and 93% of malaria deaths.
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Kelly Chibale, University of Cape Town; Richard Gordon, South African Medical Research Council
The aim is to discover, develop and facilitate delivery of anti-malarial medicines to help tackle the burden of malaria in endemic countries and support malaria eradication.
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Politics + Society
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Dirk Siebels, University of Greenwich
Feeding a simple narrative of piracy without a broader look at other maritime security challenges hinders progress in dealing with it.
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Judith Altrogge, University of Basel; Franzisca Zanker, Arnold Bergstraesser Institute
The Gambia's agreement with the European Union to return immigrants to the country is causing the government problems at home.
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Arts + Culture
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MaryAnn Dove, University of Cape Town
No-one ever asks the players how the quota system affects them. When one academic did, she found conflicting and complex responses about the impact of transformation in South African sport.
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World Toilet Day
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Juan Pablo Rud, Royal Holloway; Britta Augsburg, Institute for Fiscal Studies; Francisco Oteiza, UCL; Laura Abramovsky, Institute for Fiscal Studies; Melanie Lührmann, Royal Holloway
Research shows that targeting poor communities will go a long way in solving the country's open defecation issues.
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Ozayr Patel, The Conversation
Technology is only part of the solution to giving people access to sanitation.
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From our international editions
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Michael Clarke, Australian National University
The New York Times has published 400 pages of Chinese government documents on the 're-education' camps for Muslim detainees in Xinjiang. Here's what you need to know.
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Rowena Maguire, Queensland University of Technology; Danielle Bozin, Queensland University of Technology; Gary Mortimer, Queensland University of Technology
Natural disasters amplify the conditions leading to domestic violence. Yet Australia's disaster policies are "gender blind".
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