July 11th, 2018A study at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, Johannesburg documents the common clinical and echocardiographic characteristics of patients with infective endocarditis related to a striking increase in intravenous nyaope (a mixture of heroin, cocaine...
July 4th, 2018The likelihood that a woman in sub-Saharan Africa has HIV today is linked to whether her country was once colonised by Britain or a continental European country, a study has found. Siwan Anderson, a professor at the Vancouver School of Economics,...
The withdrawal of lay counsellors from primary health clinics in KwaZulu-Natal led to a sharp fall in the number of people taking an HIV test in 2015, a study by researchers at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, the Harvard TH Chan School of...Research Africa
More than half of medical students at Stellenbosch University feel the practices of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide (PAS) should be legalised in South Africa, and if a patient had a terminal disease with intractable suffering, 41.9% of...
May 23rd, 2018The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a safety alert warning patients and providers about a potential risk for neural tube birth defects in babies born to women with HIV who received dolutegravir during early pregnancy.
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Two recent studies conducted by the University of Cape Town have found significant contamination of hair clippers with blood and blood-borne viruses, especially hepatitis B. The study has warned clients of the risks of inadequately sterilised barber...
April 25th, 2018The University of Cape Town (UCT) and international researchers are hopeful that infants born to HIV-positive parents could in future not be dependent on the traditional TB vaccine that puts them at risk of contracting the deadly disease – should...
April 18th, 2018Rats are able to detect whether a child has tuberculosis (TB) and are much more successful at doing this than a commonly used basic microscopy test. These are the results of research led by Georgies Mgode of the Sokoine University of Agriculture in...
Clinics are ignoring guidelines on prescribing antibiotics more than half of the time‚ a study has found. And almost one in five people who were given the medication at eight Cape Town clinics did not need it. Others were given incorrect doses or...Research Africa
Stellenbosch University (SU) researchers are part of an international consortium that developed a simple blood test that can predict the development of tuberculosis (TB) up to two years before its onset in people at high risk of developing...
April 4th, 2018The impact of a combined TB and HIV intervention in tackling tuberculosis when delivered to the entire population of 14 urban, high prevalence communities in South Africa and Zambia, is to be measured in a new £10.5m multi-partner project.
The...
March 28th, 2018A new family of 'very promising' silver-based anti-cancer drugs has been discovered by researchers in South Africa.
The most promising silver thiocyanate phosphine complex among these, called UJ3 for short, has been successfully tested in rats...
March 28th, 2018Researchers at the South African Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative (SATVI) at the University of Cape Town (UCT), the Infectious Disease Research Institute (IDRI) and Aeras have released the first results from a clinical trial reporting safety and...
March 14th, 2018Young women in rural SA were more than twice as likely as young men to be infected with chlamydia and nearly twice as likely with genital herpes, found a proof of concept study led by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and the...
March 7th, 2018University of Witwatersrand scientists and international researchers have pioneered an innovative process to detect TB bacteria by adding a molecule to the bacteria’s own protective layer that illuminates under fluorescent light. In the study...
March 7th, 2018
The first evidence from a University of Nairobi study of how chemical compounds found in body odour can be used to develop effective mosquito bait traps to control dengue and chikungunya.
Kenya has seen a rapid increase in chikungunya and...
