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Source: Supplied. Tom Kariuki, SFA Foundation executive director at the Deltas Africa ll launch event in Nairobi, Kenya.
Science for Africa Foundation launches $70m research programme

11 May 2023

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Putting health at the heart of climate action

Katja Hamilton 14 Apr 2023

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South Africa's Biovac in new oral cholera vaccine deal

Wendell Roelf 25 Nov 2022

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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Wellcome pledge $300m to combat Covid-19

21 Jan 2022

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Study: HIV and TB co-infection skews Covid-19 T cell response

24 Jun 2021

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Global herd immunity remains out of reach because of inequitable vaccine distribution

Maria De Jesus 23 Jun 2021

Remote training in bioinformatics to upskill scientists across Africa
Remote training in bioinformatics to upskill scientists across Africa

7 May 2021

Antiretroviral treatment found to reduce risk of developing active TB - study
Antiretroviral treatment found to reduce risk of developing active TB - study

11 Mar 2021

A Phase I Covid-19 vaccine trial is about to start in Khayelitsha, Cape Town. Photo: Armin Kübelbeck (CC-BY-SA via Wikimedia Commons)
A new vaccine is being tested in Cape Town: Here's why it's different

Michael Cherry 19 Feb 2021

A laboratory technician patient samples at the Amudat Hospital, Uganda. Laboratories are central to the delivery of high quality data in clinical trials. Paul Kamau
Innovation - and research - are key to killing off neglected tropical diseases in Africa

Monique Wasunna 29 Jan 2021

Changing consumer behaviour driving logistics challenges
Changing consumer behaviour driving logistics challenges

29 Dec 2020

Misinformation on social media fuels vaccine hesitancy: a global study shows the link
Misinformation on social media fuels vaccine hesitancy: a global study shows the link

28 Dec 2020

First phase completion
First phase complete on Entebbe research clinic

10 Dec 2020

A substantial proportion of people may refuse or delay taking a Covid-19 vaccine. Shutterstock
Misinformation on social media fuels vaccine hesitancy: a global study shows the link

Steven Lloyd Wilson & Charles Shey Wiysonge 4 Dec 2020

Spatial applications show where the Covid-19 vulnerable populations and active cases are, where to find care, and where there are resource gaps. Bushko Oleksandr/Shutterstock
The 'science of where', or GIS, fortified Kenya's response to Covid-19. Here's how

Peter Macharia 6 Nov 2020

People wait for care at a Kenyan clinic. Photo by Wendy Stone/Corbis via Getty Images
Why Kenya's pro-poor health financing reforms miss their mark

Edwine Barasa & Evelyn Kabia 23 Oct 2020

What can be done to better support women pursuing their PhDs in Africa
What can be done to better support women pursuing their PhDs in Africa

Anne M. Khisa 28 Sep 2020

Investment health-related research is not adequate. GettyImages
African health research needs support: here's one programme that's working

Jude Igumbor 1 Sep 2020

Why Africa needs more antibiotic trials involving children
Why Africa needs more antibiotic trials involving children

Pui-Ying Iroh Tam 4 Aug 2020

Researchers are central to any country’s science preparedness, especially in the face of pandemics. Menna Hossam/picture alliance via Getty Images
Africa's research capacity is growing. That's good news for pandemic response efforts

Sam Kinyanjui & Sharon Fonn 24 Jul 2020

Exposure to sunshine for a few minutes is enough to provide sufficient vitamin D. GettyImages
Think vitamin D deficiency is not common in Africa? Think again

Reagan Mogire 29 Jun 2020

Study on Covid-19 antibodies in children
Study on Covid-19 antibodies in children

24 Jun 2020

Vaccines are some of the most equitable and cost-effective health interventions available. ranplett/GettyImages
Why a campaign to champion all vaccines matters now more than ever

Katherine E Gallagher, Anthony Scott, Ifedayo Adetifa, John Ojal, Shirine Voller & Wangeci Kagucia 5 May 2020

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Africa's genetic material is still being misused

Keymanthri Moodley 9 Jan 2020

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Unravelling the genetic code that controls cell function and disease

11 Dec 2019

TB is still a leading cause of death around the world. Sanjay Baid/EPA-EFE
We are gaining against TB but knowledge gaps remain

Emily Wong, Al Leslie & Mohlopheni Jackson Marakalala 11 Nov 2019

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Lessons from Rwanda on how trust can help repair a broken health system

Agnes Binagwaho 2 Oct 2019

Countries can be better prepared and respond faster to disease outbreaks if public health data is shared more freely. Shutterstock
Sharing data can help prevent public health emergencies in Africa

Moses John Bockarie 8 Jul 2019

There’s a lack of research that deals specifically with conditions in African countries. Shutterstock
Africa needs to up its research game to fight non-communicable diseases

Andre Pascal Kengne, Elvis Banboye Kidzeru & Muki Shey 19 Jun 2019

Professor Valerie Mizrahi. Photo: Robyn Walker/UCT
UCT scientist uses award to fund TB research

10 Jun 2019

Scientists analysing data at the South-South Malaria Research Partnership project laboratory in Kenya. Flora Mutere-Okuku
Novel approach brings African scientists closer to a malaria vaccine

Faith Osier 7 Nov 2018

Why more women don't win science Nobels
Why more women don't win science Nobels

Mary K. Feeney 17 Oct 2018

mGenAfrica launch aims to increase the awareness on STEM, genomic careers
mGenAfrica launch aims to increase the awareness on STEM, genomic careers

17 Aug 2018

Mia Malan, multiple Sikuvile Journalism Awards, receiving her Features Writing category award in 2016.
Features category of Sikuvile Journalism Awards draws large number of entries

16 Oct 2017

Genome editing reveals key gene for human embryo growth
Genome editing reveals key gene for human embryo growth

22 Sep 2017

First authors announced for Open Book Festival 2017
First authors announced for Open Book Festival 2017

6 Jun 2017

Good or bad, medical research funders promise to publish clinical trial results
Good or bad, medical research funders promise to publish clinical trial results

31 May 2017

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Why it's time African researchers stopped working in silos

Thomas Kariuki 26 May 2016

Multi-million grant for research training for African scientists
Multi-million grant for research training for African scientists

28 Apr 2016

New study marks important implications for design of HIV vaccine
New study marks important implications for design of HIV vaccine

14 Oct 2015

UCT has two winners at National Research Foundation Awards 2015
UCT has two winners at National Research Foundation Awards 2015

Natalie Simon 31 Aug 2015

New antimalarial compound could treat malaria in single dose
New antimalarial compound could treat malaria in single dose

19 Jun 2015

Let's welcome wellness
Let's welcome wellness

Tony Payne 26 Jan 2015

Malaria expert panel focuses on access to quality antimalarials
Malaria expert panel focuses on access to quality antimalarials

26 Jun 2014

Reducing TB in HIV patients through two-pronged approach
Reducing TB in HIV patients through two-pronged approach

9 Jun 2014

A scourge of rural Africa, the tsetse fly is genetically deciphered

Michael Greenwood 24 Apr 2014

International Congress on Infectious Diseases to present in Cape Town
International Congress on Infectious Diseases to present in Cape Town

11 Feb 2014

Why Africans with HIV are more susceptible to TB
Why Africans with HIV are more susceptible to TB

Helen Dodson 23 Jul 2013

Yale researchers unravel genetics of dyslexia and language impairment
Yale researchers unravel genetics of dyslexia and language impairment

Karen N. Peart 13 Jun 2013

Shape-shifting cells help skin cancer spread
Shape-shifting cells help skin cancer spread

13 Jun 2013

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