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South Africa's construction mafia problem is making national headlines and slowing down the economy. Source: DALL-E 3
Construction & Engineering
How to prepare for the construction extortion epidemic

3 Apr 2024

TB - serious but curable
Healthcare
TB - serious but curable

Issued by Bonitas 19 Mar 2024

Key facts about cholera
Healthcare
Key facts about cholera

Issued by Bonitas 12 Mar 2024

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Healthcare
HIV among older South Africans in rural areas: big study shows there’s a problem that’s being neglected

Jen Manne-Goehler and Francesc Xavier Gomez-Olive Casas 5 Mar 2024

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Healthcare
Cape Verde is the third African country to eliminate malaria: here’s how

Tiaan de Jager and Taneshka Kruger 5 Feb 2024

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Healthcare
Codeine Care Initiative: Tackling South Africa's rising substance abuse

31 Jan 2024

Source: Summit Detox.
Healthcare
US-China talks: The fate of fentanyl manufacturing hangs in the balance

Katja Hamilton 30 Jan 2024

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Healthcare
Medical union urges action on unemployment crisis for doctors

5 Jan 2024

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
Healthcare
3 lessons from Covax as the organisation draws to a close

20 Dec 2023

Source: The South African National Aids Council.
Healthcare
Launch of initiative to end Aids in children by 2030

5 Dec 2023

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Healthcare
Decline in SA's HIV prevalence, survey shows

29 Nov 2023

Source: Supplied. Anthony Figaji, head of the paediatric neurosurgery unit at the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital and the African Brain Child Initiative at the University of Cape Town.
Healthcare
South African children face staggering road accident risk

27 Oct 2023

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Healthcare
AUC, Africa CDC, and Gavi forge strategic vaccine partnership

16 Oct 2023

Source: Reuters.
Marketing & Media
Somalia's first all-women newsroom spotlights female taboos

Abdi Sheikh 21 Sep 2023

Aerial view of Derna city, in the aftermath of the floods in Derna, Libya 14 September 2023. Source: Reuters/Ayman Al-Sahili
Construction & Engineering
Explainer: What caused the floods in Libya and why are they so bad?

Tom Perry 15 Sep 2023

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Marketing & Media
Loneliness in the digital age: From virtual girlfriends to the Luh Twizzy's

Karabo Ledwaba 6 Sep 2023

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Healthcare
#HIVToday: Urgent action needed for high incidence among MSM

Hans Croukamp 20 Jul 2023

Source: Advin Healthcare.
Healthcare
Tuberculosis risk skyrockets in global prisoners

30 Jun 2023

Free hearing screening (online) for all
Healthcare
Free hearing screening (online) for all

Issued by Bonitas 26 Jun 2023

Source: Reuters.
Healthcare
Covid-19 vaccine scheme for poorest has $2.6bn left to spend as pandemic recedes

Jennifer Rigby 26 Jun 2023

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Healthcare
"Change the name. End the stigma": Why it's time to rename HIV

10 May 2023

Source: Supplied. Stellenbosch University's new Biomedical Research Institute, home to Ceri, is the most advanced research facility of its kind on the African continent.
Healthcare
Abbott partners with Ceri to address viral threats

2 May 2023

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Healthcare
Cracking down on obesity in South Africa

Katja Hamilton 19 Apr 2023

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Healthcare
African leaders pledge to drive routine immunisation and polio eradication

20 Mar 2023

Request for quotations: Peace Corps SA42 in-service training
Tourism & Travel
Request for quotations: Peace Corps SA42 in-service training

Issued by Peace Corps South Africa 15 Mar 2023

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Healthcare
R40m NIH grant keeps HIV prevention as top priority in 2023

10 Mar 2023

David Sable and Bianca Guimarães. Source: Supplied.
Marketing & Media
NYF Advertising Awards opens entries for 2023 competition

2 Feb 2023

Source: Reuters. A health worker prepares a dose of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) vaccine in Dakar, Senegal February 23, 2021.
Healthcare
Senegal institute wins $50m in boost to Africa's vaccine capacity

Nellie Peyton 25 Jan 2023

Source: Reuters.
Healthcare
US to require travellers from China to show negative Covid-19 test result before flight

29 Dec 2022

Source: Pixabay.
Healthcare
African Development Bank unveils the African Pharmaceutical Technology Foundation

23 Dec 2022

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Healthcare
SA's Aspen gets $30m grant to make vaccines

Nqobile Dludla 12 Dec 2022

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Healthcare
Call to World Health Organization to rename HIV

2 Dec 2022

PMI event sponsorship "tantamount to tobacco advertising" - civil society orgs
Retail
PMI event sponsorship "tantamount to tobacco advertising" - civil society orgs

7 Nov 2022

Crime, Covid and climate change - South African tourism faces many threats, but it's resilient
Tourism & Travel
Crime, Covid and climate change - South African tourism faces many threats, but it's resilient

Kaitano Dube 26 Oct 2022

Source: Supplied. Linda-Gail Bekker, professor of medicine and chief executive officer at the Desmond Tutu Health Foundation.
Healthcare
Decades of research make PrEP against HIV a reality for South Africa

25 Oct 2022

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Healthcare
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation discloses locally led R&D initiatives

24 Oct 2022

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Healthcare
Technology helps tackle South Africa's mental health crisis

12 Oct 2022

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Healthcare
Is Big Tobacco misleading consumers and policymakers on heated tobacco products?

Katja Hamilton 25 Oct 2022

Source: Reuters. Ugandan health workers speak to members of the community before carrying out the first vaccination exercise against the ebola virus in Kirembo village.
Healthcare
Uganda says Ebola caseload rises to 16 as outbreak grows

Elias Biryabarema 27 Sep 2022

Source: Supplied. African scientists receiving training in genomics surveillance at the KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform (KRISP), South Africa.
Healthcare
Covid-19 variants in Africa were introduced from abroad, study finds

16 Sep 2022

Source: Supplied.
Healthcare
The Institut Pasteur de Dakar's new alliance bolsters West Africa's epidemic preparedness

7 Sep 2022

Source: Supplied.
Healthcare
SA's Aspen, India's Serum Institute sign vaccines deal for Africa

Promit Mukherjee 1 Sep 2022

Sandhya Ramdhany, country leader and senior legal director at Oracle Corporation SA
Legal
#WomensMonth: Don't limit yourself, lean in - Oracle's Sandhya Ramdhany

Shan Radcliffe 22 Aug 2022

Dentsu renews their commitment to end malaria by 2030
Marketing & Media
Dentsu renews their commitment to end malaria by 2030

Issued by Dentsu 1 Jul 2022

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Healthcare
African solutions to African problems: Reframing science innovation

Quarraisha Abdool Karim, PhD 9 Jun 2022

Source: REUTERS. A section of skin tissue, harvested from a lesion on the skin of a monkey, that had been infected with monkeypox virus, is seen at 50X magnification on day four of rash development in 1968. CDC/Handout via REUTERS
Healthcare
WHO calls emergency meeting as monkeypox cases cross 100 in Europe

23 May 2022

The killer quintet
Healthcare
The killer quintet

Issued by Bonitas 20 May 2022

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