July 22nd, 2020The struggle for AIDS treatment in South Africa laid the foundation for relatively widespread citizen trust in science and expertise. We should build on the lessons...
The murky political history of the cigarette offers a vantage point to locate current debates on the cigarette sale ban in South Africa under lockdown, writes Dr Elijah...Coronavirus
The key challenge faced by all countries is slowing the rate of transmission of the virus to mitigate the overwhelming of health services. In the absence of vaccines or...Medico-Legal
Parliament has remained silent on any form of temporary legal indemnity for healthcare professionals in South Africa as a result of deaths due to the coronavirus...Weekly Roundup
Higher Education, Science & Technology Minister Blade Nzimande has granted final-year medical students permission to travel to university campuses and training...South Africa
After reluctance to release its modelling data in case it sparks panic, South Africa's Health Department has bowed to pressure and opened up on its modelling of the...Weekly Roundup
Hundreds of South African health workers were given a century-old tuberculosis vaccine on Monday of last week in a trial to see whether the venerable formula can...Weekly Roundup
Government interventions, including the travel ban and lockdown, have potentially averted at least 20,000 deaths. News24 reports that this is according to Professor...
May 6th, 2020
South Africa’s extended coronavirus lockdown is merely slowing down the infection rate to allow for the urgent continued expansion of its currently inadequate...
The modelling of how many people would contract COVID-19 and die was “flawed and illogical and made wild assumptions”. The Financial Mail reports that this is...
