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Mobile phones: good for your health?

Posted by: Anthony Huszar, Public health doctor & health economist, Posted on: 23 September 2014 - Categories: Africa, Development Debates, Health, Technology
Community health workers being trained in Efaye clinic, KwaZulu-Natal. Picture: Anthony Huszar

Over the past decade, the mobile phone has changed the way I live my life – from connecting me to friends, to being able to access a world of information while on the move. In August 2014, South Africa’s Minister …

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Working together to save the lives of mums and babies in South Africa

Posted by: Neil Squires, Posted on: 26 October 2012 - Categories: Africa, Girls & Women, Health

I am writing this sitting in Johannesburg airport on my way back from a fascinating week in South Africa, where I have been conducting a review of a UK aid supported programme on maternal and child health. The programme supports …

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The great, the good, the glamorous... and Ghana

Posted by: Dan Thomas, Posted on: 13 June 2012 - Categories: Development Debates, Ghana, Health

The great, the good and the glamorous are gathering in Washington DC this week to talk about some really big issues affecting the world's poorest and most vulnerable children and adults. Anyone who is anyone in global health and development …

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The poor deserve a better deal

Posted by: Martin Leach, Posted on: 20 September 2010 - Categories: Africa, Humanitarian

One early July day, I made my first flight to Africa, was delivered with my blue rucksack to a guest house on Ngong Road in Nairobi, and enjoyed my first encounter with a noisy Mynah bird, singing loudly outside my …

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