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Medical & Health Humanities Africa Newsletter
June 2020
 
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Learn about the Organisations and Practitioners who work in and across medical and health humanities on the continent and beyond. Don’t forget to browse through our Interesting Links to find current projects and innovations. Delve into the archives and check out Newsletters from our inception in 2016. Interested in Opportunities and Events in the MHHA network? These are listed under our News tab. We look forward to seeing you on the new website. Remember to check out our Youtube channel, join our Facebook page and follow us on Twitter (@AndMhha). 

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. 

Visit the MHHA Youtube channel. Access here.
Opportunities & Events 
Apply for a  six-month teaching position in Anthropology at WITS in South Africa. Read more here.

Virtual Covid-19 talks (hosted by De Gruyter). Read more here. 

Survey to assess mental health of South African health workers (provided by Wits University). Read more here.

Survey - Race & Health Global Consultation (hosted by Race and Health). Read more here.
Projects
Prof Nolwazi Mkhwanazi speaks on The WISER Podcast (hosted by WISER). Read more here. 

Learn more about Omniology and their anthropology podcasts. Read more here.

Learn more about the Muntu Institute. 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
Please write to us at medicalhumanitiesafrica@gmail.com with new ideas, feature articles, events news (especially if you are hosting), and any research or publications you would like us to share with the network. See our website for examples. We welcome any feedback and comments. Please share this newsletter with contacts and colleagues. We welcome new members. Please sign up to the mailing list or follow us on wordpress.
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.

Locusts on the Horn of Africa (article by NPR). Read more here.

Breathing, sleep, and resilience (article from NPR). Read more here.

COVID-19 updates: Medical Anthropology Weekly (shared in Somatosphere). Read more here.

COVID-19 updates: no meals in Nairobi (article from NPR). Read more here.

COVID-19 updates: commodified healthcare (article from New Frame). Read more here.

COVID-19 updates: three pandemics in South Africa (article from Medical Anthropology at UCL). Read more here.

COVID-19 updates: changing our communication (article from the Corona Times). Read more here.

COVID-19 updates: preparedness and response in West Africa (article from Somatosphere). Read more here.

COVID-19 updates: mental health for researchers and mental health. Read more here.

COVID-19 updates: commodified healthcare (article from New Frame). Read more here.

COVID-19 updates: learning from Ebola. Read more here.

COVID-19 updates: food security in Kenya. Read more here.

COVID-19 updates: malnutrition and disease. Read more here.

COVID-19 updates: learning from other lockdowns. Read more here.

COVID-19 updates: 6 lessons from China. Read more here.

COVID-19 updates: learning from lockdown in Mozambique. Read more here.

COVID-19 updates: a kindness project. Read more here.

COVID-19 updates: ethnographic voices from South Africa. Read more here.

COVID-19 updates: care for pregnant women and moms. Read more here.

COVID-19 updates: Containment Reality in Yaounde. Read more here.

COVID-19 updates: The universal right to breath. Read more here.

COVID-19 updates: academic freedom. Read more here.

COVID-19 updates: social distancing and "flatten the curve" - Africa can do it. Read more here.

COVID-19 updates: If men want to be heroes, they should do the dirty work. Read more here.

COVID-19 updates: living Dakar under lockdown. Read more here.

COVID-19 updates: the return of state intervention. Read more here.

COVID-19 updates: of soap and dignity in South Africa's lockdown. Read more here.

COVID-19 updates: invisible enemy or unruly guest? Read more here.

COVID-19 updates: the Corona Times. Read more here.

COVID-19 updates: join AfroPHC. Read more here.

COVID-19 updates: lessons for COVID-19 from HIV and AIDS. Read more here.

Same-sex relationships in Botswana. Read more here.

Ebola challenges continue in the DRC. Read more here.

Managing cancer in Ghana. Read more here.

Managing heart disease in African countries. Read more here.

COVID-19 updates: Training health workers in Rwanda. Read more here.

Reducing gender bias in Malawi’s nutrition policy. Read more here.

Measuring pediatric iron deficiency in African countries. Read more here.

LGBT rights in African countries. Read more here.

COVID-19 updates: coronavirus in Nigeria. Read more here.

COVID-19 updates: washing our hands to curb 'corona'. Read more here.

COVID-19 updates: on the coronavirus in Africa... Read more here.

COVID-19 updates: Spanish flu vs. coronavirus in South Africa. Read more here.

COVID-19 updates: understanding the coronavirus. Read more here.

Skin lighteners in Africa and beyond. Read more here.

Spoken word poetry challenges gender-based violence in Namibia. Read more here.

Counterfeit drugs around Africa. Read more here.

Vaccine-Preventable Diseases costing $22.4 billion around Africa, says WHO. Read more here.

Reducing blood-related maternal deaths in Kenya. Read more here.

Finding people with TB in Kenya. Read more here.

Global Inequalities - Oxfam 2020 report. Read more here.

Launching a Diploma in Medical Laboratory Sciences in South Sudan. Read more here.

Oncology nursing training in Kenya. Read more here.

Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in Kenya. Read more here. 

Anti-cholera efforts in Uganda. Read more here.

Family planning and more contraceptive choices. Read more here.

Fighting Ebola in Uganda. Read more here.

Uganda’s first ever online platform for practicing licenses for health professionals and facilities. Read more here. 
Knowledge gaps between HIV-infected and HIV-exposed children in Sub-Saharan Africa. Read more here.

Medical xenophobia in South Africa. Read more here.

Eradicating polio requires vigilance. Read more here.

No Ebola in Lesotho. Read more here.

Using genetic material in Africa. Read more here.

On maternal health challenges. Read more here.

On HIV and AIDS. Read more here.

Pat-a-caking and sight loss. Read more here.

On medical health humanities. Read more here.

Podcast on Health and Social Activism for Universal Women Rights. Access here.

Maintaining a healthy gut. Read more here.

Opioids in South Africa. Read more here.

Women generating income in Ghana. Read more here.

Cultural representation and mood disorders. Read more here.

Art and autism in children. Read more here.

Private health insurance in South Africa. Read more here.

If we want to stop the next Ebola outbreak... Read more here.

The sugar tax in South Africa. Read more here.

On breast cancer. Read more here.

Gaps in TB. Read more here.

Health issues for girls and women. Read more here.

Women in medicine and nurses using WhatsApp in Nigeria. Read more here.

Understanding mental health in South Africa. Read more here.

On the narrative of "African" migration and health. Read more here.

Legalising marijuana in eSwatini. Read more here.

Care for "the elderly" and brain function in South Africa. Read more here.

Health systems in DRC. Read more here.

Health, food & poverty in South Africa. Read more here.

Gender, health outbreaks & abuse (DRC, Botswana, Kenya). Read more here.

Podcast: DRC is still looking at measles. Access here.

Visual art and mental illness. Read more here.

Quoting the father of medicine. Read more here.

Hope Frozen - documentary film about brain cancer and cryopreservation. Read more here.

Companion animals and mental illness. Read more here.

The Peanut Butter Falcon - a film exploring the patient-provider relationship. Read more here.

Measles in the DRC. Read more here.

Fires and toxic haze threaten health in Indonesia. Read more here.

Pollution (and health) in the Nairobi River. Read more here.
Contact us
Please email us at medicalhumanitiesafrica@gmail.com. Note that this account is not accessed more than once a fortnight, so we may be a little slow getting back to you.

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.

Copyright: The views contained in these articles do not necessarily reflect those of MHHA or the organisations described therein. Copyright is retained by authors.
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