Infographics

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    Breast cancer

    October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, an annual campaign by private and public healthcare organisations to increase awareness of the disease on a national scale. In the infographic below, UP researcher Professor Annie Joubert guides us through some fast facts on breast cancer and what you need to know about the disease.

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    What was the impact of the forced removals in Harfield Village?

    At a 2015 meeting with O'Connell, Brown shared photographs he had taken when he was a student at the Michaelis School of Fine Art at the University of Cape Town. The pictures (illustrated in this article), were taken in the 1970s and show members of a community living in Harfield Village, in Cape Town's southern suburbs.

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    Fast facts about respiratory disease

    Prof Janine Wichmann and Dr Bukola Olutola share some quick facts about the effects of air pollution on respiratory health.

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    Do archaic colonial laws criminalise homeless people today?

    Prof Magnus Killander, an international human rights and comparative constitutional law researcher at the University of Pretoria’s world-renowned Centre for Human Rights in the Faculty of Law, believes that South Africa needs to overhaul and re-look many of its municipal by laws which criminalize poverty, begging and homeless people.

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    Giving a voice to persons with disabilities

    Researchers at the University of Pretoria’s Centre for Augmentative and Alternative Communication (CAAC) are working to stop the abuse of the human rights of persons with disabilities. The researchers want to help victims with Complex Communication Needs.

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    UP researchers lead the charge to protect women and children from the effects of HIV

    As much as one third of children born in South Africa are born to HIV positive women, but thanks to South Africa’s successful anti-retroviral (ARV) treatment programme, very few of these infants are born infected with HIV.

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