December 12th, 2018In Russia and its former Eastern bloc satellites, Aids deaths have climbed 38% in 10 years – almost as much as they have fallen elsewhere – and more than half of...
December 12th, 2018An increasing number of HIV patients in the Western Cape and other parts of South Africa are experiencing resistance to second-line antiretroviral therapy (ART). The...
December 5th, 2018There was a time when HIV was untreatable, heavily stigmatised, and the benefits of testing weren’t as clear as they are now. But, writes Linda-Gail Bekker, professor...
December 5th, 2018HIV-uninfected children born to mothers with HIV are prone to more severe infections, almost double the risk of dying before their first birthday, and are more likely to...
December 5th, 2018Crop yields are declining. Tropical diseases like dengue fever are showing up in unfamiliar places, including in the US. Tens of millions of people are exposed to...
November 28th, 2018Despite a few bright spots, the recently released World Malaria Report paints a gloomy picture of stagnating progress and increasing concentration of the burden of one...
Zimbabwe has been hit by another cholera outbreak, hardly three months after more than 50 people died of the disease. Business Day reports that more than 20 people have...Weekly Roundup
The development of new medical products that are considered the highest priority for people in developing countries is highly concentrated – among five pharmaceutical...Weekly Roundup
A North Carolina school with a large anti-vaccine community is at the heart of the state's largest chickenpox outbreak in decades, BBC News reports officials say. It was...Weekly Roundup
During October and November 2018, certain private sector laboratories have reported an increase in Salmonella cases in KwaZulu-Natal. Salmonella was also the most likely...
