“Trusted peers also broadcast their messages on social media platforms like WhatsApp. The messaging is co-created with vulnerable populations to be relevant to the local context,” explains Hill.

While policymakers celebrate Africa’s booming Artificial Intelligence (AI) adoption in mobile apps and fintech, small businesses tend to remain locked out of high-value innovation. This is not for a ...

Founded in 1946 on the belief of U.S. Senator J. William Fulbright that international educational exchange could help people ...

VRC01 is now an older-generation antibody. The researchers also tested whether viruses that escaped it could resist newer ...

The R6 million investment will advance research, innovation and postgraduate development in telecoms, AI and smart ...

Oldest dental school in SA and Africa, the Wits School of Oral Health Sciences, celebrates centenary.

The PhD programme is research degree that can be followed over 2 years full-time or 4 years part-time. A chosen research topic can be supervised by a suitable academic within the Faculty of Humanities ...

Campos' research revealed something important about human nature. Communities are rarely held together by fear alone. More ...

Bain says that the little white lies that fudge total honesty can be acts of care, self-protection or conflict avoidance. "Most often, people lie to avoid the shame associated with anticipated ...

Climate change is expanding the range of disease-carrying mosquitoes and could expose more people in African cities to malaria, dengue, yellow fever, chikungunya and Zika, Wits public health expert ...

Tiny lipid-based nanoparticles could help medicines reach their targets in the brain more effectively for diseases such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's. Researchers at the Wits Advanced Drug Delivery ...

In rural Bushbuckridge, Mpumalanga, people run businesses and find ways to earn a living where formal jobs are scarce. For many, the challenge is developing the skills to keep those enterprises going ...