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Medtech

Stellenbosch University to explore AI-powered TB testing

25 Jun 2025

Image: Diane Serik on Unsplash

Medical Research

African Bioinformatics Institute looks to revolutionise continent’s research, infrastructure

13 Jun 2025

A pioneer in nuclear medicine: Prof. Mike Sathekge receives honorary doctorate from the NWU

Higher Education

A pioneer in nuclear medicine: Prof. Mike Sathekge receives honorary doctorate from the NWU

Issued by North-West University (NWU) 5 Jun 2025

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Covid-19

CDC sidelined in surprise HHS update on Covid-19 vaccines

28 May 2025

Distinguished UCT professor joins elite group at US science academy

Education

Distinguished UCT professor joins elite group at US science academy

8 May 2025

Healthcare

Could inhaled vaccines be the breakthrough to end the Covid era?

6 May 2025

Source: Supplied. Charles Nortje, managing director of Old Mutual Insure.

Insurance & Actuarial

Insurance costs to rise as South Africa plans VAT increase

Charles Nortje 19 Mar 2025

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Healthcare

Africa relies too heavily on foreign aid for health – 4 ways to fix this

Francisca Mutapi 25 Feb 2025

In the 2000s activists across the world campaigned for antiretroviral treatment to be made available to people with HIV. One of the consequences of this was PEPFAR, the United States government’s foreign aid HIV programme. Since 2003 it has saved millions of lives. But now its future is unclear. Photo from the Treatment Action Campaign’s march for HIV treatment in Cape Town on 14 February 2003. (photographer unknown)

CSI & Philanthropy

Trump’s sudden suspension of foreign aid puts millions of lives in Africa at risk

Liezl Human 23 Jan 2025

Source: Reuters.

Economy

#Brics2024: Kazan Declaration pushes for new financial systems and peace initiatives

24 Oct 2024

Image supplied. All the Tabbi Awards 2024 winners

Media

Global excellence in B2B journalism: All the 2024 Tabbie Awards winners

2 Sep 2024

Source: National Institute for Communicable Diseases.

Public Health

Mpox outbreak in Africa was neglected – it could now turn into the next global pandemic

21 Aug 2024

Infectious Diseases

WHO: Governments urged to prioritise hepatitis testing, treatment

30 Jul 2024

HIV/AIDS

HIV drug trial shows injection twice-yearly 100% effective against infection

Linda-Gail Bekker 5 Jul 2024

Healthcare

1 Mpox fatality, 4 in recovery

13 Jun 2024

Covid-19

Fauci faces scrutiny: Denies cover-up on Covid-19 origin

5 Jun 2024

SU's Professor Tulio de Oliveira selected for Time100 Health 2024

Education & Training

SU's Professor Tulio de Oliveira selected for Time100 Health 2024

Issued by Stellenbosch University 6 May 2024

Source: Life Healthcare.

Healthcare

New TB skin test could offer cheaper and easier way to detect the disease

Yvette Naudé 5 Apr 2024

Source: Supplied.

CSI

Nelson Mandela Children’s Hospital first to receive pioneering neonatal medtech

19 Mar 2024

Source: Reuters.

Public Health

SA v. Israel: Accusations spotlight "danger for the historically protected position of healthcare workers" worldwide

Katja Hamilton 12 Jan 2024

Source: Supplied. Nqobile Ndlovu, chief executive officer of ASLM and Tom Berkovits, senior director of Illumina Africa Middle East and Asia-Pacific during the MoU signing between The African Society for Laboratory Medicine and Illumina at the 6th Biennial ASLM2023 conference in Cape Town.

Medtech

ASLM and Illumina: Genomics empowers Africa's pandemic readiness

29 Dec 2023

Vital role of nutrition in the TB recovery journey

Nutrition

Vital role of nutrition in the TB recovery journey

Issued by Association for Dietetics in South Africa 14 Nov 2023

Covid-19

#BRICS2023: Pandemic fund in focus for Brics Bank

Katja Hamilton 30 Aug 2023

Source: Moderna.

Covid-19

Moderna reports 92% interim profit drop

Katja Hamilton 17 Aug 2023

Covid-19

Phaahla urges Brics nations to maintain vigilance against Covid-19

8 Aug 2023

Source: Advin Healthcare.

Healthcare

Tuberculosis risk skyrockets in global prisoners

30 Jun 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.

Infectious Diseases

Abbott partners with Ceri to address viral threats

2 May 2023

Source: Supplied. Mary Rodgers, a virus hunter and scientist at Abbott who works with the Abbott Pandemic Defense Coalition.

HIV/AIDS

#HIVToday: Abbott's top scientist speaks to staying one step ahead of a constantly mutating virus

Katja Hamilton 28 Apr 2023

Tuberculosis

Tackle TB, prevent future pandemics, report finds

22 Mar 2023

Covid-19

South Africa sees no need for new Covid restrictions for now - health minister

10 Jan 2023

Source: AfricaCDC.

Healthcare

US to apply Ebola screenings for recent Uganda visitors at 5 airports

David Shepardson 7 Oct 2022

Public Health

Ghana declares end of Marburg virus disease outbreak

Sofia Christensen 19 Sep 2022

Source: Supplied. African scientists receiving training in genomics surveillance at the KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform (KRISP), South Africa.

Covid-19

Covid-19 variants in Africa were introduced from abroad, study finds

16 Sep 2022

Source: Reuters. A health worker in protective clothing carries waste for disposal outside the isolation ward where victims of the deadly Marburg virus are treated in the northern Angolan town of Uige, File.

Infectious Diseases

Ghana confirms its first outbreak of highly infectious Marburg virus

Alessandra Prentice and Nellie Peyton 18 Jul 2022

Source: Supplied. Regional Office for Africa, World Health Organization.

Infectious Diseases

Malawi declares polio outbreak

1 Mar 2022

Source: ©tashatuvango

Tuberculosis

TB: an orphan disease?

Danette Breitenbach 1 Oct 2021

Climate change is harming children's mental health - and this is just the start

Climate Change

Climate change is harming children's mental health - and this is just the start

Francis Vergunst and Helen Louise Berry 30 Sep 2021

The case for compulsory vaccination in the construction industry

Construction & Engineering

The case for compulsory vaccination in the construction industry

Morag Evans 29 Sep 2021

A healthcare worker administers the Johnson and Johnson coronavirus disease (Covid-19) vaccination to a woman in Houghton, Johannesburg, South Africa, 20 August, 2021. Reuters/ Sumaya Hisham/File Photo

Covid-19

South Africa detects new coronavirus variant, still studying its mutations

31 Aug 2021

6 Covid-19 vaccine myths dispelled by experts

Covid-19

6 Covid-19 vaccine myths dispelled by experts

25 Aug 2021

Date set for DKMS Africa's Sunflower Day

NGO, NPO & Social Enterprise

Date set for DKMS Africa's Sunflower Day

10 Aug 2021

Source: ©Romolo Tavani

Covid-19

We created a tool to help predict Covid-19 increases in African countries

Steven J Schiff, Andrew Geronimo, Claudio Fronterre & Paddy Ssentongo 23 Jul 2021

Source: ©:Puwadol Jaturawutthichai

Tuberculosis

TB prevention has relied on the same vaccine for 100 years. It's time for innovation

Bavesh Kana 22 Jul 2021

The research was conducted at the Zambia University Teaching Hospital morgue. Salim Dawood/AFP via Getty Images

Covid-19

Latest data from Lusaka morgue analysis shows spike in Covid-19 deaths

Christopher J Gill 12 Jul 2021

Ending HIV in children is way off target: where to focus action now

HIV/AIDS

Ending HIV in children is way off target: where to focus action now

Kaymarlin Govender & Linda-Gail Bekker 14 Jun 2021

HIV 40 years on: four action points to end Aids as a health threat

HIV/AIDS

HIV 40 years on: four action points to end Aids as a health threat

Gilles van Cutsem 10 Jun 2021

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

Infectious Diseases

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

Maureen Miller 3 Jun 2021

Coronavirus variants have new names: we can finally stop stigmatising countries

Covid-19

Coronavirus variants have new names: we can finally stop stigmatising countries

Ed Feil 3 Jun 2021