July 1st, 2020As coronavirus chaos has enveloped Pakistan, with hospitals overflowing, doctors dying and infections escalating at an unmanageable rate, The Guardian reports that a...
When best practice standards for surgical antibiotic prophylaxis were applied, postoperative continuation of antibiotic prophylaxis was found to have no benefit in...HIV/AIDS
Pre-treatment drug resistance data for infants newly diagnosed with HIV from nationally representative surveys conducted between 2011 and 2016 in nine sub-Saharan...Weekly Roundup
Speaking at the launch of a field hospital in Uitenhage in the Eastern Cape, South Africa’s Health Minister Zweli Mkhize said that on the 5th of March 2020, exactly...HIV/AIDS
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted a new indication to a paediatric version of dolutegravir (Tivicay PD, ViiV Healthcare) tablets for oral suspension,...
June 17th, 2020Most of the registered clinical trials of potential treatments for COVID-19 underway as of late March were designed in ways that will greatly limit their value in...
Tanzania's President John Magufuli has declared the country "coronavirus-free" thanks to prayers by citizens, reports BBC News. "The corona disease has been eliminated...
June 10th, 2020The World Health Organisation (WHO) is once again walking back one of its controversial statements, this time surrounding asymptomatic transmission of the coronavirus,...
China delayed releasing important coronavirus information during the early days of the outbreak, according to leaked World Health Organisation (WHO) documents and...Weekly Roundup
Nick Hudson, a co-ordinator at Pandemic Data and Analytics (PANDA) has sent an open letter to President Cyril Ramaphosa questioning the wisdom on the lockdown to stem...
