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Empowering communities to beat malaria

Malaria is a deadly, infectious disease with a complex life cycle. So complex in fact that after many years of research, scientists have still not been able to come up with a definitive solution to eradicate the disease completely.

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Empowering communities to beat malaria

Malaria is a deadly, infectious disease with a complex life cycle. So complex in fact that after many years of research, scientists have still not been able to come up with a definitive solution to eradicate the disease completely.

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Fighting breast cancer in the laboratory

Prof Annie Joubert, a professor in the Department of Physiology at the University of Pretoria (UP), has been involved with research focused on the treatment of breast and cervical cancer for a number of years and has gained national and international recognition in this field.

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Education towards the elimination of Malaria

On Monday, 12 October 2015 the University of Pretoria Centre for Sustainable Malaria Control (UP CSMC) Student Forum, in collaboration with the Faculty of Education at UP, presented a seminar titled ‘Education towards malaria elimination’.

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A major crisis looms in sport

Sport has been an aspect of human society since the earliest times and sports injuries have probably also been part of human existence from the outset. Ancient sports contests often led to serious injury or even death and athletes were viewed as expendable resources that could be sacrificed in the quest for glory.

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Turn it down! Your music is damaging your hearing

Through his research, Prof Vinck has already been instrumental in the passing of legislation regulating sound exposure at music festivals in Belgium. He feels very strongly that awareness.