November 20th, 2019
Until malaria is eradicated, drugs are critical to its management. New challenges to the effectiveness of treatments – including drug resistance – have emerged and must be overcome by discovering new agents, write Professor Kelly Chibale of...
October 29th, 2019
A review of HIV incidence among young people in east and southern Africa since antiretroviral treatment (ART) roll-out reveals failures to reach the highest-risk young women. The systematic review and meta-analysis also found ART roll-out did not...
October 9th, 2019
Results of a study of more than 700,000 one to 19-year olds being treated for HIV infection suggests a ten-fold increase in the number of adolescents aged 15 to 19 receiving HIV treatment in South Africa. However, Medical Xpress reports, despite...
October 2nd, 2019
Sugar-sweetened beverage producers submitted evidence that was out of context and exaggerated, in their appeal against South Africa’s proposed new sugar levy, Health-e News reports research has found. Coca-Cola, the Beverage Association of South...
October 2nd, 2019
Programmes to scale-up HIV testing and treatment in countries in sub-Saharan Africa may have had less impact on new HIV infections than hoped, partly because they haven’t paid enough attention to groups that contribute disproportionately to HIV...
September 25th, 2019
More than that 80% registrars at the University of the Witwatersrand's School of Clinical Medicine suffer from burnout, a response to prolonged stress, with “extremely high” levels of depersonalisation, affecting professional response to...
A study focusing on language acquisition in Khayelitsha near Cape Town has found that adolescents with low language ability have higher levels of depressive symptoms. The study was published in the journal PLOS One.
The results highlight a...
September 4th, 2019
Clusters of new cases of tuberculosis (TB) provide strong evidence of areas that need to be prioritised for improved antiretroviral therapy (ART) coverage, and improved ART coverage is associated with a reduction in new TB cases, according to...
August 21st, 2019A team of scientists from the University of Johannesburg (UJ), collaborating across theoretical and experimental physics and computer science, have developed and trained a new Machine Learning technique, to predict and diagnose diseases such as lung...
August 14th, 2019
A study from the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN), the KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation & Sequencing Platform (KRISP) and the Africa Health Research Institute (AHRI) provides evidence that scaling up antiretroviral therapy (ART) coverage...
August 7th, 2019Hepatitis E virus (HEV) can be found in pork-containing meat products available for sale in Cape Town, found a study in the SA Medical Journal, with the authors warning that meat of pig origin should be thoroughly cooked before being...
May 15th, 2019
Point-of-care testing for early infant HIV diagnosis is highly effective in reducing turnaround time for HIV test results, enabling earlier antiretroviral treatment initiation in infants in sub-Saharan Africa. An observational study by Flavia...
April 24th, 2019THIS STUDY HAS BEEN WITHDRAWN BY THE AUTHORS AND THE PUBLISHER, Aging, Neuropsychology and Cognition.
CLICK HERE FOR AN OUTLINE OF THE CONTROVERSY.
The original article in MedicalBrief:
Coloured women in SA have an increased risk for low...
March 27th, 2019Tuberculosis treatment programmes in Cape Town, South Africa, do not currently distinguish between adolescent and adult TB patients, and in so doing, may miss opportunities for improving the treatment outcomes of young people with TB. According to a...
March 13th, 2019Part of the research at the University of Cape Town's new new Aerobiology TB Research Facility involves measuring the amount of air individuals exchange, which may range from about 300 litres per day between children and adolescents, to...
March 6th, 2019Treating hospitalised, severely malnourished children with a lactose-free, reduced-carbohydrate milk formula does not improve clinical outcomes, according to a multi-centre, double-blind trial in Kenya and Malawi.
The study by Robert Bandsma of...
