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Genesis in the news

NEWS & INSIGHTS

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    SA drunks rev up calls to tighten booze laws

    Alcohol’s deadly hand in road crashes and violent attacks – thrust to the fore after booze was unbanned two weeks ago – has led to renewed calls for stringent liquor regulations to save lives. But a piece of legislation which policy experts said could turn the tide has been stalled for four years.

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    Glass half full or half empty: How Do Stories Affect Economic Value?

    The global economic lockdown has made sticking to a well-diversified portfolio difficult: while we watch our efficiently allocated portfolios take a hit, our risk-seeking peers take concentrated positions in video-conferencing stocks and watch their wealth soar.

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    Cloud-computing solutions can help to reduce banking costs in Africa

    More than 700 million Africans lack access to a bank or mobile money account and only 41% of Africans are financially included. This is due to the high cost of providing financial services in Africa which forces many financial services providers to remain focused on serving wealthier customers.

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    Our Health team at the first virtual 23rd International AIDS conference

    Our Health team participated in the virtual 23rd International AIDS Conference last week when we presented three posters of our work on HIV prevention and chaired a satellite symposium.

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    Stockpiling: is it really that irrational?

    The COVID-19 pandemic has changed everyday life as we know it. Perhaps the first behaviour to change was our shopping.

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    Genesis continues to manage UNAIDS technical support programme

    Genesis will continue to manage the East and Southern African region of the UNAIDS technical support mechanism (TSM) from 2020 to 2022, following a successful first two years in partnership with Oxford Policy Management.

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    Looking for best practice to protect young girls from HIV

    Genesis has been contracted by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to research best practice in mentoring programmes that can protect adolescent girls and young women from being infected by HIV.

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    Covid-19 pandemic: We must plan using models, act on actual data

    Models need to be adjusted by actual measurements, like the actual number of people who are dying from the disease. This means that models tend to be more inaccurate in the beginning, but get better at making predictions over time.

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    All the George Floyds: Genesis condemns racism and injustice

    Genesis Analytics condemns racism and all forms of injustice. We are further committed to creating a safe environment for honest conversations about race and how we can effectively upend the systemic racism that many of our team members experience every day.

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    Genesis launches two new ways to view the COVID-19 epidemic

    Genesis Analytics has launched two important and useful new tools for looking at and understanding the Covid-19 epidemic. This comes amid daily predictions and models that tell us how severely the Covid-19 epidemic will become in South Africa, as well as the rest of the continent.

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    Genesis part of initiative to guide SA business in return2work

    The Return2Work Initiative offers businesses clear and simple step-by-step guidance on re-opening and staying open, incorporating the key legal requirements and tools to minimise infection and maximise compliance. The initiative is led by Genesis Analytics, BSA, the PPGI and Harambee.

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    Are we asking the right questions about unlocking the SA economy?

    Genesis CEO Stephan Malherbe joined economists and business leaders at the CDE webinar on unlocking the South African economy. Malherbe argued that the more ready business is, the sooner the economy will be unlocked and that is why initiatives like return2work.co.za are so important.

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