The Global Health Catalyst (GHC) group has “clarified” its honouring of Zimbabwe’s first lady Auxillia Mnangagwa hours after several US diplomats wrote to ask it...
October 2nd, 2019
Now is not the time to get stuck in complacency and triumphalism over the gains made in the global HIV/Aids response, former president of the International AIDS Society...
October 2nd, 2019
A looming drugs crisis in Africa is being made worse by ineffective drug policy, fuelled by corruption and organised crime, says the ENACT transnational organised crime...
The Pan-African Parliament (PAP) has adopted a resolution on the establishment of an African Parliamentarian Caucus on Immunisation to drive the body’s commitment to...
April 10th, 2019A drug-resistant fungus called Candida auris, which preys on people with weakened immune systems, is quietly spreading across the globe, reports The New York Times. The...
Civil society groups are calling on President Cyril Ramaphosa to attend a historic global tuberculosis (TB) meeting in September, as a show of political will in ending...Weekly Roundup
Deputy President David Mabuza on Tuesday said that advancing awareness about preventing the spread of tuberculosis (TB) and Aids-related deaths will involve youths...
March 28th, 2018When one considers the TB numbers, it boggles the mind that it is not dominating the headlines, not a top priority for political parties or trade unions, and not one of...
December 6th, 2017Great progress, but... An array of academics and activists take a snapshot of the state of the global response to HIV and TB.
“I am tired – to the point of...
November 29th, 2017
The dismal failure of the World Health Organisation-endorsed GeneXpert test to bring TB under control, illustrates a simple fact, according to a Scientific American...
