October 21st, 2020The HPTN084 study being conducted in six African countries holds out the promise of a bi-monthly injection for women as an empower new way to prevent HIV infection,...
Darryl Bernstein, partner and head of the Healthcare Industry Group, and Rui Lopes, associate and member of the Healthcare Industry Group at Baker McKenzie in...Weekly Roundup
Minister of co-operative governance Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma has extended the state of disaster to 15 November. It gives the government unchecked power to make arbitrary...
October 14th, 2020The Western Cape can be assumed to have near 60% immunity, which approaches herd immunity levels. That should also be true for the rest of South Africa, writes Emeritus...
October 14th, 2020Dr Anthony Fauci is one of the world’s leading infectious diseases experts, the face of science in America during COVID-19, and advisor to President Donald Trump. He...
September 30th, 2020In August, almost half of the most commonly used medications to treat mental illness in South Africa were out of stock, and many have been in short supply since March....
A seroprevalence survey in Cape Town found that 40% of 2,700 public healthcare users tested positive for COVID-19, with antibody prevalence higher in more densely...
September 2nd, 2020In response to several COVID-19 'super-spreader' events in Germany in May-June this year, the government quickly locked down, first the hot-spots and then nation-wide,...
South Africa, though the University of Cape Town, has joined global counterparts in the search for a coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine through three international trials,...
August 26th, 2020Now engulfed in a second COVID-19 wave, the pandemic in Germany is ahead of Africa and the country has been praised for a low death rate and high science. There will be...
