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A transição democrática na África do Sul foi dolorosa, mas pacífica. Após anos de opressão estatal violenta em uma sociedade marcadamente dividida entre brancos e negros, o processo transicional permitiu o surgime...

Abstract The world is off track six years to the 2030 deadline for attaining the sustainable development goals and universal health coverage. This is particularly evident in Africa’s armed conflict-affected and humanit...

Background: Climate change increasingly shapes development outcomes, necessitating its integration into evaluation processes. In Africa, recurrent droughts, floods and temperature extremes disrupt progress across sector...

Background: A full-thickness macular hole (FTMH) causes central vision loss. Although modern vitrectomy techniques achieve high closure rates, functional recovery remained variable. Aim: This study aimed to describe th...

Abstract Background Africa reduced its under-5 mortality rate (U5MR) by more than 50% during the MDGs era. However, it still has by far the highest average U5MR in the world – 81 deaths compared to a global average of ...

Purpose — This paper examines the relationship between South Africa’s rising public debt and real exchange rate (RER) volatility. Over the past two decades, the country has experienced an alarming increase in externa...

This opinion paper is informed by a scoping review and validated through a multi-stakeholder workshop. In May 2024, the Gender Transformation for Africa, an African-led research partnership that includes programme implem...

IntroductionChild malnutrition remains a public health and development challenge, particularly in Africa. Dairy can play a significant role in improving child nutrition and can plausibly be incorporated into Africa’s s...

Background: South Africa continues to experience persistently high unemployment, which constrains graduates’ successful integration into the labour market. Objectives: This article systematically reviews school-to-wo...

This study examined the African Union and sub-regional courts as avenues to attaining justice on the continent of Africa. The wave of decolonisation in Africa in the mid-20th century led to the political independence of ...

African and Western thought differ in their approaches to the eco-dilemma. The primary difference is rooted in a distinct worldview. A predominant Western dichotomy between the material and the spiritual, and the sacred ...

This study analyses technopreneurship as a sustainable employment pathway for youth in South Africa using cross-sectional survey data from 533 respondents across provinces. Employing Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) regressi...

ABSTRACT Background and Aims Africa has significant challenges in meeting its vaccination needs, including inadequate manufacturing capacity, infrastructure deficiencies, a scarcity of experienced personnel, regulatory h...

Abstract Background Tobacco use continues to kill millions of people globally, making it one of the major causes of preventable deaths. Notwithstanding, there has been a very marginal fall in the prevalence of tobacco sm...

Background: The Zondo Commission exposed how corruption and collusion undermined South Africa’s state and business relations. However, little is known about its impact on small businesses and local economic developmen...

Background: In South Africa, the term ‘service delivery’ has become ubiquitous in public discourse, encompassing a wide array of issues from water outages to damaged roads. However, this generalisation often masks t...

This study investigates how five African diaspora-led podcasts – “Ckiza,” “Not Your African Cliché,” “Afrolit,” “Afro Pop Worldwide,” and “The Hip-Hop African Podcast,” – facilitate transnati...

The success of energy transitions in coal-dependent economies, such as South Africa, is critical not only for reducing greenhouse gas emissions but also for achieving Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG 7) on affordable ...

Background: Early enrolment for antenatal care (ANC) is an important strategy in improving perinatal and maternal outcomes. Treatable conditions in pregnancy, such as anaemia, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and syp...

Abstract Though cervical cancer is largely preventable, Africa faces a high burden with thousands of deaths. Highlighting the urgent need for action toward the WHO’s 90-70-90 elimination strategy, this study presents t...

Background: Maternal nutritional status before and during pregnancy is an important contributor to pregnancy outcomes and early child health. The aim of this study was to describe the preconceptional nutritional status a...

Abstract Background Quarantine and isolation (Q&I) are interrelated but not mutually exclusive public health practices for disease control, which may face public resistance in the context of health emergencies due to ass...

Este artigo busca analisar as razões motivadoras da parceria no jogo das negociações comerciais multilaterais. O objetivo é contribuir para a compreensão mais ampla sobre as bases (doméstica e internacional) do pro...

Niche construction theory has increasingly received attention in paleoanthropology as a new focus for considering the evolutionary consequences of hominin tool-use and cultural adaptation starting in the Pleistocene. Mod...