Experts estimate tHAT 37% of its plant species, 90% reptiles and 95% land snails exist nowhere else in the world
Climate change: If warming approaches 2°C, a trickle of extinctions will become a flood
Water crisis in South Africa: Damning report finds 46% contamination, 67% of treatment works near to breaking down
There’s rising need for global co-operation to decarbonise industries
Dissecting the discord between Guyana and Venezuela: Conflagration or pacification?
Intertwined concerns around geopolitics, economic interests and historical claims have escalated the stand-off. However, the silver lining is that ...
COP28: Leaders in attendance must channel their inner Hatim Tai on Global Goal for Adaptation
World leaders need to agree with climate finance for adaptation not as a burden, but a force to uplift
Socials of the pandemic
For generations, and also in the immediate future, the COVID-19 pandemic will be remembered for this: how the world ...
Pharma is getting high on marijuana
As drug companies develop cannabis-based medicines for serious illnesses, generic firms are trying to get into the act
Umaru Shehu: Nigerian public health giant who played a major role in polio eradication
His efforts, with others, culminated in Nigeria achieving polio-free status on June 18, 2020
AMR Awareness Week: Pharma must rise to the challenge as stewards of public health
Being in the pharmaceutical field, the mantle of responsibility falls upon us to forge ahead in the relentless pursuit ...
AMR Awareness Week: Natural livestock farming effective bottom-up approach to reduce antibiotic use in dairy sector
Crisis with AMR obliges dairy sector to look beyond maximising cattle productivity and focus on both milk quantity, quality
AMR Awareness Week: Way forward for pharma companies to ensure antibiotics manufacturing doesn’t drive resistance
The risk of AMR posed by the release of antibiotic manufacturing waste can be prevented
Remodel food systems
The climate change crisis is human-made; it is we humans who must rework our lives; we cannot go ahead with ...
COP28: A parent appeals for the future of her children
Leaders at COP28 must listen and act for a healthy future for all our children
AMR Awareness Week: Innovation in antibiotics research and development is urgently needed
There should be a movement to treat AMR as a national issue, pass policies and fund innovation. Such efforts ...
Malaria: Two groundbreaking vaccines have been developed, but access and rollout are still big stumbling blocks
The demand for malaria vaccine is estimated to be 40-60 million doses by 2026
AMR Awareness Week: Tackling antimicrobial resistance is a critical global function
There are many advantages to using a global functions framework rather than just the narrow public goods framework
AMR Awareness Week: Subscription-based economic model can help unblock pipeline for new antibiotics
At present, drug development is only profitable if combination of prices and sales volumes is sufficiently high
AMR causes more deaths than malaria and HIV/AIDS combined. What Africa is doing to fight this silent epidemic
In many African countries, poverty and inequality propel the likelihood of antimicrobial resistance
AMR Awareness Week: Antimicrobial research and development needs greater push through policies
We need policies to reward R&D, bring products to market and ensure equitable access and prudent use
South African university students use AI to help them understand — not to avoid work
Respondents were overwhelmingly positive about the potential of digital and AI tools to make it easier for them to ...
AMR Awareness Week: Tackling antimicrobial resistance in agrifood systems through a One Health approach
Adopting a whole-of-society and multi-sectoral approach is essential to address AMR effectively
AMR Awareness Week: FAO’s biosecurity protocol can help create healthy farms with less antibiotic use
The three-zone biosecurity initiative by FAO was originally launched in 2013 to contain avian flu outbreaks
AMR Awareness Week: The link with climate change, water & why we need to incentivise measures against antimicrobial resistance
Many countries now have national AMR action plans, but implementation remains vastly different
AMR Awareness Week: US FDA is too close to meat and drug industries when it comes to protecting public health
FDA has helped to create antibiotic-intensive livestock system of US