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There’s been a breakthrough in the fight against HIV. A drug undergoing clinical trials, lenacapavir, has been found to give women total protection against becoming infected with HIV. It also only has to be injected twice a year. Linda-Gail Bekker, one of the foremost scientists in HIV research, says these results give great hope that we now have a proven, highly effective way to protect people from HIV.
Billions of people around the globe will be glued to their TV screens from 26 July when the Olympic Games kick off in Paris, France. Many will also be following their favourite athletes’ journeys via platforms like TikTok, Instagram, X and Facebook. And they’re in luck, because the Games’ governing body, the International Olympic Committee, has introduced guidelines that allow athletes more freedom to share their experiences on social media. Layckan van Gensen unpacks the committee’s new rules.
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Nadine Dreyer
Health & Medicine Editor
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Linda-Gail Bekker, University of Cape Town
A breakthrough drug is a significant step forward in the fight against HIV. But without changes in behaviour, infection rates won’t come down.
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Layckan Van Gensen, Stellenbosch University
The International Olympic Committee has recognised that athletes use their social media accounts to build their personal brands.
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Politics
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Gedion Onyango, London School of Economics and Political Science
Corruption in Kenya drains resources that could have been used for services like healthcare or education.
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XN Iraki, University of Nairobi
Kenya’s slow economic growth, large educated youth population and limited job opportunities are some of the factors that gave rise to the protests.
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Vinothan Naidoo, University of Cape Town
Cyril Ramaphosa’s cabinet choices appear to have been driven more (if not exclusively) by bona fides and pragmatism. This augurs well for the multi-party arrangement.
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Peter Lockwood, University of Manchester
President Ruto’s re-awakening of class identities has shifted the character of Kenya’s politics in ways even he could not have predicted.
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Tessa Diphoorn, Utrecht University; Naomi van Stapele, Hague University of Applied Sciences
Reforms have failed to transform an authoritarian police force into a democratic one.
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Arts, Culture + Society
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Chuka Onwumechili, Howard University
Women were banned from playing football in many countries, but that’s just one of many barriers they have overcome.
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Environment + Energy
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Jason Gilchrist, Edinburgh Napier University
In South Africa, huge stockpiles of rhino horn are kept, even though there’s a global ban on trading it.
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Robert Krause, University of the Witwatersrand
Communities who have lived off the land and the sea for hundreds of years will need to organise if they want to stop giant companies like Shell from destroying their livelihood by mining.
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Business + Economy
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Danny Bradlow, University of Pretoria
Kenya is not an isolated case. Twenty-one countries are receiving IMF support.
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Education
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Hannah Hoechner, University of East Anglia; Yagana Bukar, University of Maiduguri
Boko Haram leaders valued western education knowledge for the tactical advantages it offered.
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Marian Selorm Sapah, University of Ghana
Geoscience literacy and awareness among the Ghanaian public is poor.
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Science + Technology
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Sandiso Mnguni, University of the Witwatersrand
New insect treasures are almost certainly just waiting to be found by future palaeonentomologists.
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