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Featured
Read more about our featured project: Connected Lives. From the authors: "The case studies are striking in their nuanced and ‘thick’ description of life lived in South Africa, reflecting engagements and encounters at multiple and disparate points. They offer a unique picture of diversity, warmth, kindness and care that disrupt any notion of a singular way of life. We intended the account of contemporary South Africa, as presented here, to be told through the words of many authors who come from different personal backgrounds and disciplines, and occupy different positions within academia and in South African society." Read more here.
Read more about our featured practitioner Jess Auerbach - an economic and a medical anthropologist with a strong interest in applied pedagogy and sensory ethnography. Read more here.
Check out some COVID-19 updates: Soweto under lockdown by MHHA's very own Zinhle Maeko. Read more here.
Read more about the first clinical data on COVID-19 published in South Africa. Check out the COVID-19 Special Issue of the Wits Journal of Clinical Medicine. Read more here.
Poet’s Corner - read a poem from the ‘On Being Project’ website. Read more here.
Call for Content
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Publications from other organisations
On following Covid-19 rules (articles from NPR). Read more here.
Gender inequality and Covid-19 in South Africa (article from Corona Times). Read more here.
Christianity and health in Ghana (article from Corona Times). Read more here.
Understanding the African Union Covid-19 Response Fund (article from Corona Times). Read more here.
Accessing lab equipment across Africa (article from Somatosphere). Read more here.
Health insurance in Kenya (article from Somatosphere). Read more here.
Exploring universal health coverage in Ghana (article from Somatosphere). Read more here.
Understanding universal health coverage in Zambia (article from Somatosphere). Read more here.
Nuns are providing Covid-19 updates in Zambia (article from NPR). Read more here.
Understanding intergenerational trauma in South Africa (article in Somatosphere). Read more here.
Supporting George Floyd in Africa (article from NPR). Read more here.
Covid-19 is hurting trans people around the world (article from The Corona Times). Read more here.
Is social media good or bad in Botswana? (article from Afrobarometer). Read more here.
Covid-19 lockdown in South Africa (articles from The Conversation). Read more here.
Updates on Covid-19 in Africa (article from NPR). Read more here.
Teenagers and digital media in Nigeria (article from The Conversation). Read more here.
Home birth risks during lockdown across Africa (article from NPR). Read more here.
Piped water in Angola (article from Afrobarometer). Read more here.
Education in Kenya's refugee camps (article by The Conversation). Read more here.
Limitations of fever screening for COVID-19 (article by The Conversation). Read more here.
Black Lives Matter across Africa (article by NPR). Read more here.
Fires and toxic haze threaten health in Indonesia. Read more here.
Pollution (and health) in the Nairobi River. Read more here.
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About the network: This network began as a partnership between the Universities of the Witwatersrand, Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Pretoria and the Western Cape. The network is an open network - a resource for practitioners, academics and anyone else interested in work that brings health and the humanities together.
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