This panel shares the lessons learnt about the challenges and opportunities of running an IS PhD program in Africa by focusing on cases from Southern Africa, East Africa, and West Africa. The University of Cape Town, South Africa is running a successful PhD program on its own capacity, which can attract PhD candidates from many parts of the continent and beyond. Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia...

We monitored antimicrobial susceptibility data for Salmonella strains isolated from humans, cattle, pigs, and chickens in The Netherlands from 1984 to 2001 in order to provide insight into the dynamics of resistance over time. The strains were tested for their susceptibilities to seven antimicrobial agents by the agar diffusion method. Resistance was most common in Salmonella enterica subsp. en...

as eyal et al put forth in their piece, non-physician clinicians in sub-saharan africa and the evolving role of physicians, task-shifting across sub-saharan africa through non-physician clinicians (npcs) has led to an improvement in access to health services in the context of physician-shortages. here, we offer a commentary to the piece by eyal et al, concurring that physician’s roles should ev...

background: gastrointestinal and liver diseases (gilds) are major causes of death and disability in middle east and north africa (mena). however, they have different patterns in countries with various geographical, cultural, and socio-economic status. we aimed to compare the burden of gilds in iran with its neighboring countries using the results of the global burden of disease (gbd) study in 2...

background: a parasitological survey of schistosoma haematobium and s. intercalatum infection among primary schoolchildren in capital area of democratic republic of são tomé and príncipe (drstp) was undertaken. methods: subjects with positive infection were confirmed by the detection of s. haematobium ova in the urine or s. intercalatum ova in the stool by using centrifugation concentration or ...

Many analysts decry the lack of sufficient investment in Africa, implying that investment in Africa is “too low.” We find no evidence that private and public capital are productive in Africa, either in the cross-country data or in micro data from Tanzania. In this restricted sense, investment in Africa is too high rather than too low. Shantayanan Devarajan* William R. Easterly* Howard Pack** *W...

South Africa has a population of 51.8 million people of which 7.5% over the age of five has a disability according to the latest census data (Statistics South Africa 2014). This statistic on the national prevalence of disability should be interpreted with caution since psychosocial and neurological disabilities are not accounted for (Statistics South Africa 2014). The most recent data on disabi...

The majority of people with HIV live in sub-Saharan Africa, with South Africa having the highest number of cases recorded world-wide [1,2]. Haematological manifestations of HIV including Non Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) are common and diverse, and can occur at all stages of infection [3]. Preliminary studies conducted in South Africa suggest that HIV associated lymphomas are increasing in number with...

a Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Natural Resources and Environment (NRE), Earth Observation Group, P.O. Box 395, Pretoria 0001, South Africa b Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution for Science, 260 Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305, USA c RIT: Center for Imaging Science, Digital Imaging and Remote Sensing Group, 54 Lomb Memorial Drive, Building 76‐3124, Roch...

P. Lloyd ([email protected]), Percy FitzPatrick Inst., DST/NRF Centre of Excellence, Univ. of Cape Town, P/Bag X3, Rondebosch, 7701, South Africa, and Biodiversity Assessment and Management Pty Ltd, PO Box 1376, Cleveland 4163, Australia. – F. Abadi, South African National Biodiversity Inst., P/Bag X7, Claremont 7735, South Africa, and School of Statistics and Actuarial Science, Univ. of Wit...