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Foreword
Introductory Messages
DEVELOPMENT AND CHANGE
PEOPLE AND CONTEXTS
HEALTH AND WELL-BEING
PLANET AND SUSTAINABILITY
Awards
Lead Researchers
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SETTING THE CONTEXT
62 The interconnectedness of health, well-being and the SDGs 63 Integrating malaria research and management strategies
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COMMUNICABLE DISEASES
64 Ensuring the health of South African children – HIV research 66 Maternal and child health – closing the gap between policy and
programmes
67 Very early infant diagnosis (VEID) of HIV
68 Identifying affordable, non-invasive measures of health 69 An invisible epidemic
70 TB – one of the biggest killers
71 Anti-microbial resistance complicates TB pandemic
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NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASES
73 The health and injuries of athletes 74 Fighting cancer with nuclear therapy
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INTO THE FUTURE
76 New possibilities in genomic medicine and cellular therapies 77 Precision medicine in South Africa – the way of the future? 78 Whole genome sequencing advances cancer research 79 Bioinformatics empowering modern biological science
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ONE HEALTH
81 Herding for Health
Kalafong Hospital, Kangaroo mothering
