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Correspondence |
Ebola virus: DRC field laboratories’ rapid response
- Daniel Mukadi-Bamuleka
- , Steve Ahuka-Mundeke
- & Kevin K. Ariën
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Outlook |
The global fight against hepatitis B is benefitting some parts of the world more than others
Uneven access to health-care resources is complicating the drive to eliminate this viral infection.
- Emily Sohn
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Outlook |
How to stop mother-to-child transmission of hepatitis B
The global effort to eliminate the disease depends heavily on blocking the most common mode of viral infection.
- Liam Drew
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Outlook |
Africa’s struggle with hepatitis B
The viral disease is widespread on the continent, but many countries lack the resources to heighten awareness and treat patients.
- Linda Nordling
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Editorial |
Afghanistan’s girls’ schools can — and must — stay open. There is no alternative
The Taliban have broken a promise and betrayed a generation.
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Article
| Open AccessMachine learning and phone data can improve targeting of humanitarian aid
Machine-learning algorithms can take advantage of survey and mobile phone data to help to identify people most in need of aid, complementing traditional methods for targeting humanitarian assistance.
- Emily Aiken
- , Suzanne Bellue
- & Joshua E. Blumenstock
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Matters Arising |
Aquaculture will continue to depend more on land than sea
- Wenbo Zhang
- , Ben Belton
- & Max Troell
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Editorial |
Female scientists in Africa are changing the face of their continent
Why international researchers should be lining up to collaborate with women working in science across Africa.
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News |
Open-access publishing fees deter researchers in the global south
Authors in low-income countries rarely published free-to-read papers, even when they qualified for publication-fee waivers.
- Diana Kwon
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Career Feature |
Rooting African science and technology education in cultures and languages
The continent’s role in the global economy depends on development from within.
- Kendall Powell
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Career Feature |
Advance Kenyan science by seizing opportunities to collaborate
How networks can help to win research grants and equip labs in Africa.
- Kendall Powell
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Career Feature |
Capacity building to boost science in Ethiopia
Experience gained overseas can be used to develop home-grown solutions to local challenges.
- Kendall Powell
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Editorial |
Africa is bringing vaccine manufacturing home
A major milestone was reached last week when scientists in South Africa reproduced Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine. COVID-19 patents must now be shared.
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Career Feature |
The wise counsel that can drive public-health research in Kenya
Finding the right working culture pays dividends when trying to juggle academia and parenthood in Africa.
- Kendall Powell
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News Feature |
The urine revolution: how recycling pee could help to save the world
Separating urine from the rest of sewage could mitigate some difficult environmental problems, but there are big obstacles to radically re-engineering one of the most basic aspects of life.
- Chelsea Wald
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Career Feature |
Female scientists can advance by saying: ‘Yes, I’ll do it’
A whole-hearted commitment to the demands of a job can help women to thrive in male-dominated spheres in Africa.
- Kendall Powell
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Career Feature |
Realizing a passion for public health in Cameroon
A clear vision and good delegation skills can help women to advance in their careers.
- Kendall Powell
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Correspondence |
COVID-19: LMICs need antivirals as well as vaccines
- Simar Singh Bajaj
- & Fatima Cody Stanford
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Career Feature |
The superhero skills needed to juggle science and motherhood
It might demand 12-hour days, but the chance to help shape African science makes it all worth it.
- Kendall Powell
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Career Q&A |
A nutritionist in Kenya shares advice for prospective students
Rose Okoyo Opiyo says women need help balancing family demands if Africa is to narrow its PhD gender gap.
- Christopher Bendana
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Career Q&A |
Why I work unpaid to keep the Yemen Geological Museum open
Despite an ongoing civil war and economic crisis, museum manager Fahd Albarraq and his colleagues want Yemenis to continue visiting the museum’s collection.
- Shihab Jamal
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Comment |
Two years of COVID-19 in Africa: lessons for the world
Africa urgently needs to guarantee its own health security.
- Christian T. Happi
- & John N. Nkengasong
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News Feature |
What humanity should eat to stay healthy and save the planet
What we eat needs to be nutritious and sustainable. Researchers are trying to figure out what that looks like around the world.
- Gayathri Vaidyanathan
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Editorial |
Researchers at risk in Afghanistan need better tools to find help
Many organizations are ready to help threatened scholars and professionals — but those in peril often struggle to locate them.
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Editorial |
COP26 didn’t solve everything — but researchers must stay engaged
The climate summit’s organizers stopped researchers accessing the negotiations in Glasgow, UK. A zero-carbon world needs science and social science to bridge divides.
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Editorial |
The African Academy of Sciences is in crisis — responsibility must be shared
The pan-African science academy is in turmoil. Funders and fellows must jointly own the crisis, and work to stop it happening again.
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News Feature |
African scientists race to test COVID drugs — but face major hurdles
In a bid to stave off looming disaster, scientists are trying to repurpose drugs used for malaria and other diseases, but infrastructure and recruitment challenges stymie progress.
- Abdullahi Tsanni
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Editorial |
The COVID pandemic must lead to tuberculosis vaccines
The coronavirus crisis has halted decades of progress on TB. But the speed of COVID vaccines shows there can still be hope for advances against neglected diseases.
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Article
| Open AccessGlobal potential for harvesting drinking water from air using solar energy
Mapping of the global potential of atmospheric water harvesting using solar energy shows that it could provide safely managed drinking water for a billion people worldwide based on climate suitability.
- Jackson Lord
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Editorial |
Young people will be key to climate justice at COP26
The world’s youth movements are following the science of climate change. It’s high time that world leaders did, too.
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News Feature |
Why fossil fuel subsidies are so hard to kill
Behind the struggle to stop governments propping up the coal, oil and gas industries.
- Jocelyn Timperley
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Correspondence |
Credit local authors fairly on international research papers
- Angela I. N. Obasi
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- & Refiloe Masekela
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News |
Scientists hail historic malaria vaccine approval — but point to challenges ahead
The WHO-approved RTS,S vaccine has modest efficacy and requires a complex regimen of doses, so ample funding and clear communication will be crucial to success.
- Amy Maxmen
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News Round-Up |
Moon ice, research imbalance and a new science minister
The latest science news, in brief.
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News |
Global impacts of Nature’s journalism and opinion
Case studies from five continents reveal how stories can bring about change.
- Julian Nowogrodzki
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World View |
The incoming Afghan government must allow immunizations
The world must work with Kabul’s new rulers to get polio and other diseases under control.
- Zulfiqar A. Bhutta
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Career Column |
How Latin American researchers suffer in science
It’s time to tackle the cumulative barriers and biases faced by scientists who aren’t from wealthy countries.
- Ana M. Valenzuela-Toro
- & Mariana Viglino
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News |
Resistance to front-line malaria drugs confirmed in Africa
The artemisinin-based treatments are taking longer to clear infections. But they are still working — for now.
- Max Kozlov
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News |
Vaccine innovation and COVID’s collateral damage — the week in infographics
Nature highlights three key infographics from the week in science and research.
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News |
Researchers from global south under-represented in development research
Most studies on economic development are led by researchers based in the global north, even when they focus on a country or region in the global south.
- Layal Liverpool
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News |
The fight to manufacture COVID vaccines in lower-income countries
Drug companies and wealthy countries are facing increased pressure to partner with firms in the global south but are reluctant to relinquish control.
- Amy Maxmen
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Editorial |
The global research community must not abandon Afghanistan
Here’s how Afghanistan’s scholars can be supported.
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Editorial |
Control methane to slow global warming — fast
Carbon dioxide reductions are key, but the IPCC’s latest report highlights the benefits of making cuts to other greenhouse gases, too.
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Outlook |
Screening saves lives, so why don’t governments fund it?
Programmes to test newborn babies for sickle-cell disease can improve chances of survival, but they lack financial help.
- Linda Nordling
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Outlook |
Collect more data from Africa to improve gene therapy
Despite the continent being the epicentre of sickle-cell disease, too few Africans are included in genome-wide association studies.
- Ambroise Wonkam
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News |
Delta threatens rural regions that dodged earlier COVID waves
Data on the variant’s spread in India make researchers fearful for areas in developing nations that lack health care and vaccines.
- Smriti Mallapaty
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World View |
Cash payments in Africa could boost vaccine uptake
When doses finally arrive, use cash incentives to overcome hesitancy.
- Rabah Arezki
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News |
COVID boosters for wealthy nations spark outrage
Nations short of vaccine should get first doses to curb the pandemic, researchers say.
- Amy Maxmen