5 research outputs found
Light-based technologies for management of COVID-19 pandemic crisis.
The global dissemination of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has accelerated the need for the implementation of effective antimicrobial strategies to target the causative agent SARS-CoV-2. Light-based technologies have a demonstrable broad range of activity over standard chemotherapeutic antimicrobials and conventional disinfectants, negligible emergence of resistance, and the capability to modulate the host immune response. This perspective article identifies the benefits, challenges, and pitfalls of repurposing light-based strategies to combat the emergence of COVID-19 pandemic
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Insecurity and education in South Africa after 1994
This chapter provides an introspective and retrospective analysis based on the strides achieved and challenges experienced en route to advancing development in post- apartheid South Africa. It also examines the impact of violent community protests on educational outcomes. The authors view violent community
protests as a key element of insecurity in South Africa. South Africa is suffering from what Maphosa and Keasley (2014) call negative peace, that is, an absence of violence such as systemic exclusion and skewed development that results in the insecurity that we elaborate below. For the South African case, insecurity results from violent behaviour (armed and unarmed), looting, vandalism of property, and threats to peace in schools. The authors appreciate that education is a key factor in the theory of the developmental state. Many countries that developed and reversed inequalities in their societies managed to do so through prioritizing education and making it a fundamental pillar of their developmental trajectory. The Asian Tigers are typical examples of progress anchored in an education that is responsive to their developmental agenda.
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Bring back our girls and women to careers in physics
Statistics show that around the world the number of women in physics drops sharply when approaching postgraduate level. What are the barriers that hinder their success in physics, and what can be done about that, ask Portia Tshigoli, Rodney Managa and Palesa Sekhejane.
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Health systems as a neglected developmental pillar: the case of Ebola in West Africa
AISA Policy Brief no 118, AugustAt a macro-level there appears to be a shift taking place in health care in Africa and related outputs. Weak and burdened management of social services is unable to cope with the ever increasing human development challenges which unfortunately continue to linger on even today on the continent. As a developmental state-building pillar and human right, access to public health care remains widely limited, with many health systems still largely underdeveloped and suffering from 'brain drain' and the effects of dwindling education systems. Now more than ever it is crucial that African leadership give due consideration to the developmental rewards of an efficient and effective health care system something which has been largely neglected thus far. It comes as no surprise that Africa was unable to come forward as a primary respondent with an adequate response to the West African Ebola crisis of 2014. The World Health Organisation (WHO) defines a health care system as a collection of institutions, organisations and resources whose primary function is to improve health through responsiveness and financial fairness. A central requirement for such a system to operate well is that it should be highly interdependent, requiring intact stewardship in order for all actors concerned to benefit and progress
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Re-aligning the development trajectory in Madagascar through local voices
The political history of post-independence Madagascar is similar to that of other former French colonies on the continent, which have been characterised by a strong presidency, weak state institutions and complete absence of the state around the periphery. The 2009 uprising in Madagascar necessitated rethinking fundamental questions of how states were formed in Africa and of findings new ways of community consultation and development, says Olivia Lwabukuna et al.