A tribute to Raymond Louw: a great South African editor and determined activist: Raymond Louw, right, with then deputy president Cyril Ramaphosa, middle, and veteran journalist Mathatha Tsedu in 2015. GovernmentZA/Flickr, CC BY-NDVeteran South African journalist Raymond Louw has passed away at the age of 93. He was a former editor of the Rand Daily Mail newspaper and tireless … [Read more...] about A tribute to Raymond Louw: a great South African editor and determined activist | The Conversation
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Words to describe distress differ across the world. What we found in Kenya | The Conversation
Words to describe distress differ across the world. What we found in Kenya: People from non-Western cultures use different words to speak about mental health Amir Ridhwan/ShutterstockClinical medicine defines psychiatric diagnoses according to internationally negotiated categories and symptoms. These classifications have produced a global narrative of what emotions, … [Read more...] about Words to describe distress differ across the world. What we found in Kenya | The Conversation
Ramaphosa’s critical choices to get South Africa back on track | The Conversation
Ramaphosa's critical choices to get South Africa back on track: South Africa has seen a steady rise in the number of protests ShutterstockSouth Africa’s economy is in dire straits. Unemployment has reached a 15-year high of 27.6%. And in the first quarter of this year GDP growth dropped by 3.2%. That’s the biggest quarterly drop in a decade. Considered in conjunction with … [Read more...] about Ramaphosa’s critical choices to get South Africa back on track | The Conversation
The three big studies pushing at the frontiers of HIV prevention | The Conversation
The three big studies pushing at the frontiers of HIV prevention: ShutterstockThere are an estimated 5000 new HIV transmissions every day. Around 70% of the 37 million people living with HIV globally are in sub-Saharan Africa. Of the 1.8 million new HIV transmissions worldwide in 2017, 800 000 occurred in eastern and southern Africa. New, effective … [Read more...] about The three big studies pushing at the frontiers of HIV prevention | The Conversation
Pasha 23: Tropical cyclones are on the rise in southern Africa | The Conversation
Pasha 23: Tropical cyclones are on the rise in southern Africa: shutterstock Southern Africa has seen a rise in tropical cyclones recently. The most recent examples were Cyclones Kenneth and Idai that hit Mozambique and surrounds. In the latest episode of Pasha Dr Jennifer Fitchett, a senior lecturer in physical geography at the University of the Witwatersrand in South … [Read more...] about Pasha 23: Tropical cyclones are on the rise in southern Africa | The Conversation
