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The ANC is correct that unemployment has decreased for seven consecutive quarters, but there is more to the story.

Dear Minister Godongwana and National Treasury, don’t make budget cuts at the expense of South Africa’s future.

The final results of a landmark study published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases confirm that the benefits of combining the RTS,S/AS01E (RTS,S) malaria vaccine with antimalarial drugs in settings of highly seasonal malaria transmission continue over five years. The vaccine-drug combination reduced clinical malaria episodes, including cases of severe malaria, and deaths from malaria in young children by nearly two-thirds compared with either RTS,S vaccination or seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) alone.

Doing ‘the right thing’ for one’s health, be it eating well, exercising or going for an annual HIV test or blood pressure check, is easier said than done.