Photo: People waiting on vaccinations at Thelle Mogoerane Hospital. (Photo: Denvor de Wee/Spotlight) This World Aids Day we need to find opportunities for public health improvements in this decade This World Aids Day, South Africans are carrying the greatest HIV/Aids burden in the world, our country’s original pandemic. Yet, to combat COVID-19, our country has …
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Opinion| Health Data Privacy Protection Is Pivotal To Health Equity In Africa
Opinion PiecesCloud computing, along with increasingly ubiquitous digital tools for collection, aggregation, and analysis of health data, offer substantial potential to help the African continent leapfrog many more mature systems in transforming healthcare and improving health outcomes. However, more rigour and attention must be focused on protecting the privacy and security of health data. Health data …