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18 Mar 2020 | Interview with Dr Peter Jacobs

The Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) is today (Tuesday) launching a book entitled: ‘Equitable Rural Socioeconomic Change: Land, climate dy...

18 Mar 2020 | Interview with Professor Cannataci - United Nations Special Rapporteur on Privacy

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18 Mar 2020 | Interview with Professor Reddy on SAfM (HSRC Public Survey || Understanding the impact of Covid-19)

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11 Mar 2020 | Are the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Equitable?

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3 Mar 2020 | Human Sciences Research council hosts strategies on South Africa's AU chairship

South Africa assumed the annually rotating chair of the African Union earlier this month, its second term since serving as the organization's inaugura...

28 Feb 2020 | The controversial cut: clear communication essential for HIV risk reduction

Although the contribution of each component of the HIV response is not known, one mathematical model published in February 2020 in the Lancet found th...

24 Feb 2020 | Latest Social Attitudes Survey data now available!

Visit the Digital Curation pages to download the data: http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.14749/1575000020 The South African Social Attitudes Survey (S...

18 Feb 2020 | New insights on food and nutrition security presented at research forum

A team of HSRC researchers recently presented emerging findings from an ongoing project titled, “A comprehensive status report on population, fo...

6 Dec 2019 | Financing BRICS climate change action: Cities as nuclei for implementation

Cities are well positioned to respond to climate change, as decisions can be undertaken reasonably rapidly, and have direct and non-tangible implicati...

1 Dec 2019 | World AIDS Day 2019: New pill brings hope, while stigma remains a barrier to treatment

The introduction of a new HIV drug, as part of the new antiretroviral treatment guidelines, has been greeted with widespread positivity. The three-in-...