Kelly-Jane Turner

Multimedia Journalist, IOL News

The unmet need for contraceptives in Africa and why it needs to be addressed

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Picture: Geoffroy Van der Hasselt/AFP - While there are many contraception products available across the world, access to any or all of them might prove difficult ...

Researchers look into rare ‘tomato flu’ circulating in India

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Picture: Ted S Warren/AP – A patient receives a shot in the first-stage study of a potential vaccine for Covid-19, in March 20, 2020. Researchers have dubbed a viral ...

Prevalence of female genital mutilation a sign of gender inequality

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Picture: Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Files – Ex-female genital mutilation (FGM) cutter Monika Cheptilak, shows a homemade tool from a nail used for FGM. Close to 140 million ...

Global crises spur spike in new HIV cases

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Graphic: Timothy Alexander/African News Agency (ANA) By Kelly-Jane TurnerA compounding number of crises in recent years have slowed the global fight against HIV ...

Is it best to boost even when Covid-19 immunity wanes?

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Health crisis looming with malnutrition rife in Africa

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There’s no new ‘Centaurus' variant says WHO official

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Social media has unofficially nicknamed the Omicron BA. 2. 75 subvariant as ‘Centaurus'.

How Vaccine Inequality can Prolong the Covid-19 Pandemic in Africa

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Picture: Timothy Bernard/African News Agency(ANA)By Kelly-Jane TurnerTHE world is two and a half years into the Covid-19 pandemic that continues to underline global ...

How rolling blackouts in Africa may spark mental health issues

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By Kelly-Jane TurnerI began writing this during loadshedding, with my laptop battery at 35 percent and using my phone (with depleting data) as a hotspot. South Africans ...

When it rains, it pours: The impact climate change has on flooding in Africa

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Fresh in our memory is the April and May flooding across parts of KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape. We witnessed entire buildings, homes and schools ravaged by ...

The simultaneous scrapping of masks and the onset of monkeypox cases: why this is not an issue

Kelly-Jane Turner|Published

One of the eagerly awaited announcements by the government took place last week – the scrapping of face masks and suspension of several lockdown restrictions. What ...