The minister of basic education, Angie Motshekga, announced on Saturday that schools in South Africa would remain open in order to...Read more » Buyani Primary School Principal Shot Dead in Suspected Hit Read more » Science & Technology ...
The proposal by the South African Health Ministry to implement HIV testing and counselling (HTC) at schools in 2011 generated debates about the appropriateness of such testing. However, the debate has been between the Ministries of Education and Health, with little considerations of the students. ...
Eddleston notes in this context that, when the organization of European Schools of Tropical Medicine (TropMed Europe) met in Addis Ababa in 1997, “we were persuaded by our African colleagues that the term ‘tropical medicine’ still had patronizing colonial overtones and should be replaced by ...
House screening remains conspicuously absent in national malaria programs despite its recognition by the World Health Organization as a supplementary malaria vector-control intervention. This may be attributed, in part, to the knowledge gap in screen durability or longevity in local climatic conditions an...
and were able to complete a questionnaire in English. The study office was located in Vancouver’s West End, Vancouver’s traditional gay neighborhood. At each study visit, participants completed a computer-assisted, self-administered questionnaire on demographics, attitudes, sexual behavior, HIV preve...
There has been an increasing interest in urban agriculture (UA) practice and research in recent years. Scholars have already reported numerous beneficial and potential adverse impacts of UA on health-related outcomes. This scoping review aims to explore
On the other hand, the provision of cool spaces (air conditioning at schools and churches for example) and swimming pools, as well as cycling facilities, were given the lowest ratings. These adaptation mechanisms may have received the lowest ratings because they are uncommon occurrences in ...
Most youths in this study had received information on sexual and reproductive health from schools. A significant proportion, however, preferred to receive such information from health care workers. The health care systems should, therefore, do more in terms of empowering these youths with information...
analysis of these countries’ legal frameworks as means of ascertaining (1) the current legal boundaries to decisions on the expropriation’s goal; (2) whether these boundaries comply with the VGGTs; and (3) what these two countries can learn from one another in terms enacting legislation and...
This is why the respondents in this study were of the view that the government had abandoned them to the extent that the government concentrated on installing lightning conductors in public places, such as schools and clinics, and not on the homes of people. Differently stated, the community ...