FOCUS: POLICY & LAW
Gender Commission joins opposition to mandatory vaccination policies
The South African Commission for Gender Equality (CGE) has warned against “trampling on human rights” with mandatory vaccinations and “harsh sanctions” against employees and students, writes MedicalBrief. And as yet another university (Free State) announced a compulsory vaccination policy, the SA Union of Students warned of protests when the academic year resumes and an array of legal challenges have been launched.
The trade union Solidarity this week announced a four court application against mandatory vaccinations, while the newly-formed Universities Alliance...
FOCUS: FROM THE FRONTLINES
China’s bid for Zero Covid: Economic pain, rights abuses and data manipulation
As the Beijing Winter Olympics approaches, with the announcement that tickets will not be sold due to the “grave and complicated situation of the COVID-19 pandemic”, China’s policy of Zero COVID has come under scrutiny, writes MedicalBrief. Harsh lockdowns of entire cities are causing economic problems, human rights abuses, and the claimed manipulation of medical data.
In Forbes, George Calhoun of the Stevens Institute of Technology in the United States writes that surging Omicron variant has penetrated China’s firewall...
FOCUS: HARM REDUCTION
Switch to heated tobacco from cigarettes may reduce toxic exposure – Cochrane Review
There is moderate‐certainty evidence that people who switched from cigarettes to heated tobacco had lower levels of exposure to harmful chemicals and very low- to moderate- certainty evidence of higher exposure to toxins than those who stopped using tobacco altogether, found a study published in Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews.
Heated tobacco products are often marketed as a healthier alternative to cigarettes but questions remain about their effects on cigarette smoking and health, write Harry Tattan-Birch and Jamie Brown...
FOCUS: CORONAVIRUS
Reverse zoonoses in COVID-infected lions and pumas at Gauteng zoo
Reverse zoonotic COVID-19 transmission from asymptomatic animal handlers at a Gauteng zoo not only posed a risk to endangered big cats kept in captivity but entailed the risk of new variants emerging in other animal reservoirs and these variants being transmitted back to humans, found a University of Pretoria study.
Since the pandemic began, minks infected with the coronavirus in Denmark have been culled and Hong Kong said this week that 2,000 small animals, including hamsters, would be culled...
DESMOND TUTU HEALTH FOUNDATION - VACANCY
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