African Entomological Research Committee

A review of a South African research ethics committee.

KwaZulu-Natal is the epicentre of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. The antenatal prevalence of HIV was 32.5% in 1999. Other prevalent diseases are tuberculosis, malaria, malnutrition and several malignancies such as that of the cervix and the oesophagus. Health care in South Africa is provided by both the private and public sector. People using the private sector generally have access to privately funded...

An Entomological Episode of the East African Campaign

During the year 1915, I was stationed at a large post in East Africa in the crater-like depression of an isolated volcanic mountain. This mountain had been held for some months by the Germans, and when we occupied it, we found ourselves obliged for reasons of defence to place part of our troops upon the site of the old German camp. We had not been there for many days before we found that the si...

Television Research Committee

Any factual information we can get about the effects of television on our lives is immeasurably more worthwhile than just supposition. This progress report, while clearly calling for more research, presents us with some myth-destroying discoveries. Rather than learning violence (or its alternative sin, passivity), children seem to take from television what they would take from any other form of...

Silent Voices: Current and Future Roles of African Research Ethics Committee Administrators.

Entomological Specimens