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Source: © 123rf As Covax closes on 31 December 2023, reflects on its successes and challenges in the bid to overcome inequity have underscored the clear need for the world to be better prepared the next time a viral threat with pandemic potential emerges

3 lessons from Covax as the organisation draws to a close

20 Dec 2023

UCT professor wins prestigious global award

UCT professor wins prestigious global award

7 Dec 2023

An Ebola survivor who works as a nurse, waits to receive tubes for taking blood samples at the Ebola treatment centre in Katwa, near Butembo, in the DRC, 3 October 2019. Reuters/Zohra Bensemra

DRC declares end to Ebola outbreak

Nellie Peyton 4 Jul 2022

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Extension on Covid-19 regulation public comments

5 May 2022

Abbott seeks new treatment standards for Africa's silent killer disease

Abbott seeks new treatment standards for Africa's silent killer disease

29 Apr 2022

Talking about TB...

Talking about TB...

Bonitas 19 Apr 2022

10 tips for flu and Covid-19 vaccines

10 tips for flu and Covid-19 vaccines

Bonitas 31 Mar 2022

Clean drinking water: Discharging raw sewage into rivers and dams is a national security issue

Clean drinking water: Discharging raw sewage into rivers and dams is a national security issue

Professor Anthony Turton 28 Mar 2022

Plan your new financial year resolutions

Plan your new financial year resolutions

Bizcommunity.com 10 Mar 2022

Women empowerment key in fight against HIV and Aids

Women empowerment key in fight against HIV and Aids

2 Dec 2021

Heineken employees vaccinated in Sedibeng

Heineken employees vaccinated in Sedibeng

Heineken South Africa 26 Oct 2021

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TB: an orphan disease?

Danette Breitenbach 1 Oct 2021

Cape Town centre offers a hot meal and a vaccine to homeless people

Cape Town centre offers a hot meal and a vaccine to homeless people

Marecia Damons 14 Sep 2021

A child gets a dose of the oral polio vaccine. Simon Maina/AFP via Getty Images

It's been a year since Africa was declared polio free. But a threat remains

Wayne Howard & Melinda Suchard 27 Aug 2021

A health worker receives a vaccine against Ebola at a hospital after a case of Ebola was confirmed in Abidjan, Ivory Coast 16 August 2021. Reuters/Luc Gnago

Ivory Coast begins Ebola vaccinations after case confirmed in Abidjan

Loucoumane Coulibaly 17 Aug 2021

Dr Susan Vosloo. Source: Facebook

Medical community slams top heart surgeon's anti-vaxx comments

16 Aug 2021

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Vaccine denialism kills: Mail & Guardian has let down its readers

Nathan Geffen and Mia Malan 10 Aug 2021

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Guinea records West Africa's first Marburg virus death

10 Aug 2021

Barbie debuts dolls in likeness of Covid-19 frontline workers

Barbie debuts dolls in likeness of Covid-19 frontline workers

5 Aug 2021

A childhood vaccine given at birth is effective. BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

This is no time to neglect hepatitis - 70-million Africans are infected

Pauline Bakibinga 27 Jul 2021

Dr Thulani Mhlanga, medical manager for vaccines at Pfizer South Africa

Adult vaccination could stop unnecessary deaths

20 Jul 2021

Healthcare worker, Boitsholo Mfolo, inside the digital x-ray truck at one of Africa Health Research Institute’s mobile screening camps in rural KwaZulu Natal, South Africa. Samora Chapman/ Africa Health Research Institute

Study shows a huge burden of undiagnosed disease in a rural South African district

Emily B Wong 28 Jun 2021

A health worker examines a child for signs of trachoma Joe McNally/Getty Images

How The Gambia beat trachoma, an infection that causes blindness

Musa Mutali 7 Jun 2021

The next pandemic is already happening - targeted disease surveillance can help prevent it

The next pandemic is already happening - targeted disease surveillance can help prevent it

Maureen Miller 3 Jun 2021

Ebola survivors: their health struggles and how best to support them

Ebola survivors: their health struggles and how best to support them

Peter B James, Abdulai Jawo Ba, Amie Steel, Jon Adams & Jon Wardle 28 May 2021

New drugs work against the many strains of hepatitis C found in African countries

New drugs work against the many strains of hepatitis C found in African countries

John McLauchlan 27 May 2021

Low trust in authorities affects vaccine uptake: evidence from 22 African countries

Low trust in authorities affects vaccine uptake: evidence from 22 African countries

Jean-Francois Maystadt, Kalle Hirvonen & Nik Stoop 21 May 2021

People with HIV are still dying from a treatable, but neglected, disease: all it needs is a plan

People with HIV are still dying from a treatable, but neglected, disease: all it needs is a plan

Gilles van Cutsem 17 May 2021

Over 100 countries back Trips waiver on Covid-19 vaccines

Over 100 countries back Trips waiver on Covid-19 vaccines

7 May 2021

Pfizer vaccine hits SA shores

Pfizer vaccine hits SA shores

3 May 2021

Mykola Samoilenko/Shutterstock

Scabies: the neglected tropical disease no one wants to talk about

Michael Head 22 Apr 2021

South African healthcare workers are at high risk of contracting hepatitis B

South African healthcare workers are at high risk of contracting hepatitis B

13 Apr 2021

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An Ebola survivor who works as a nurse, waits to receive tubes for taking blood samples at the Ebola treatment centre in Katwa, near Butembo, in the DRC, 3 October 2019. Reuters/Zohra Bensemra

DRC declares end to Ebola outbreak

Nellie Peyton 4 Jul 2022

Image source: scyther5 –

Extension on Covid-19 regulation public comments

5 May 2022

Abbott seeks new treatment standards for Africa's silent killer disease

Abbott seeks new treatment standards for Africa's silent killer disease

29 Apr 2022

Talking about TB...

Talking about TB...

Bonitas 19 Apr 2022

10 tips for flu and Covid-19 vaccines

10 tips for flu and Covid-19 vaccines

Bonitas 31 Mar 2022

Clean drinking water: Discharging raw sewage into rivers and dams is a national security issue

Clean drinking water: Discharging raw sewage into rivers and dams is a national security issue

Professor Anthony Turton 28 Mar 2022

Plan your new financial year resolutions

Plan your new financial year resolutions

Bizcommunity.com 10 Mar 2022

Women empowerment key in fight against HIV and Aids

Women empowerment key in fight against HIV and Aids

2 Dec 2021

Heineken employees vaccinated in Sedibeng

Heineken employees vaccinated in Sedibeng

Heineken South Africa 26 Oct 2021

Source: ©tashatuvango

TB: an orphan disease?

Danette Breitenbach 1 Oct 2021

Cape Town centre offers a hot meal and a vaccine to homeless people

Cape Town centre offers a hot meal and a vaccine to homeless people

Marecia Damons 14 Sep 2021

A child gets a dose of the oral polio vaccine. Simon Maina/AFP via Getty Images

It's been a year since Africa was declared polio free. But a threat remains

Wayne Howard & Melinda Suchard 27 Aug 2021

A health worker receives a vaccine against Ebola at a hospital after a case of Ebola was confirmed in Abidjan, Ivory Coast 16 August 2021. Reuters/Luc Gnago

Ivory Coast begins Ebola vaccinations after case confirmed in Abidjan

Loucoumane Coulibaly 17 Aug 2021

Dr Susan Vosloo. Source: Facebook

Medical community slams top heart surgeon's anti-vaxx comments

16 Aug 2021

Source: Reuters/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo

Vaccine denialism kills: Mail & Guardian has let down its readers

Nathan Geffen and Mia Malan 10 Aug 2021

Source: ©Jean-Paul

Guinea records West Africa's first Marburg virus death

10 Aug 2021

Barbie debuts dolls in likeness of Covid-19 frontline workers

Barbie debuts dolls in likeness of Covid-19 frontline workers

5 Aug 2021

A childhood vaccine given at birth is effective. BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

This is no time to neglect hepatitis - 70-million Africans are infected

Pauline Bakibinga 27 Jul 2021

Dr Thulani Mhlanga, medical manager for vaccines at Pfizer South Africa

Adult vaccination could stop unnecessary deaths

20 Jul 2021

Healthcare worker, Boitsholo Mfolo, inside the digital x-ray truck at one of Africa Health Research Institute’s mobile screening camps in rural KwaZulu Natal, South Africa. Samora Chapman/ Africa Health Research Institute

Study shows a huge burden of undiagnosed disease in a rural South African district

Emily B Wong 28 Jun 2021

A health worker examines a child for signs of trachoma Joe McNally/Getty Images

How The Gambia beat trachoma, an infection that causes blindness

Musa Mutali 7 Jun 2021

The next pandemic is already happening - targeted disease surveillance can help prevent it

The next pandemic is already happening - targeted disease surveillance can help prevent it

Maureen Miller 3 Jun 2021

Ebola survivors: their health struggles and how best to support them

Ebola survivors: their health struggles and how best to support them

Peter B James, Abdulai Jawo Ba, Amie Steel, Jon Adams & Jon Wardle 28 May 2021

New drugs work against the many strains of hepatitis C found in African countries

New drugs work against the many strains of hepatitis C found in African countries

John McLauchlan 27 May 2021

Low trust in authorities affects vaccine uptake: evidence from 22 African countries

Low trust in authorities affects vaccine uptake: evidence from 22 African countries

Jean-Francois Maystadt, Kalle Hirvonen & Nik Stoop 21 May 2021

People with HIV are still dying from a treatable, but neglected, disease: all it needs is a plan

People with HIV are still dying from a treatable, but neglected, disease: all it needs is a plan

Gilles van Cutsem 17 May 2021

Over 100 countries back Trips waiver on Covid-19 vaccines

Over 100 countries back Trips waiver on Covid-19 vaccines

7 May 2021

Pfizer vaccine hits SA shores

Pfizer vaccine hits SA shores

3 May 2021

Mykola Samoilenko/Shutterstock

Scabies: the neglected tropical disease no one wants to talk about

Michael Head 22 Apr 2021

South African healthcare workers are at high risk of contracting hepatitis B

South African healthcare workers are at high risk of contracting hepatitis B

13 Apr 2021

Ebola virus virion. CDC/Cynthia Goldsmith

Ebola might be a chronic infection - but here's why we shouldn't panic

Connor Bamford 1 Apr 2021

Workers at India’s biggest syringe manufacturer ramp up production in September 2020 in race to meet Covid-19 vaccine-driven demand. Photo by SAJJAD HUSSAIN/AFP via Getty Images

Why India is banking on health diplomacy to grow African footprint

Dan Banik & Renu Modik 26 Mar 2021

Beware: Conditions are ideal for an outbreak of Rift Valley Fever

Beware: Conditions are ideal for an outbreak of Rift Valley Fever

North-West University (NWU) 5 Mar 2021

Viruses can hijack cellular process in order to block immune response

22 Feb 2021

Medical staff check each others protective suits. Photo by SUMY SADURNI/AFP via Getty Images

Ebola strikes West Africa again: key questions and lessons from the past

Mosoka Fallah 19 Feb 2021

REUTERS/Denis Balibouse/File Photo

WHO alerts six African countries after Ebola outbreaks

Saliou Samb 18 Feb 2021

#BestofBiz 2020: Healthcare

#BestofBiz 2020: Healthcare

14 Dec 2020

Studies confirm Daikin's patented streamer technology inactivates more than 99.9% of the coronavirus

Studies confirm Daikin's patented streamer technology inactivates more than 99.9% of the coronavirus

Daikin 14 Dec 2020

The polio eradication programme in Africa directly combated a severe debilitating disease. Yasuyoshi Chiba / AFP via Getty Images

How ending polio in Africa has had positive spinoffs for public health

Charles Shey Wiysonge 4 Nov 2020

Illustration of Neisseria gonorrhoeae bacteria. GettyImages

Drug-resistant gonorrhoea is a growing threat: a South African case study

Remco Peters & Liteboho Daniel Maduna 28 Oct 2020

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