Leading vaccinologist Professor Willem Hanekom has added his voice to those defending the government’s acquisition and rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which has been...Coronavirus Watch
Antibodies from individuals in South Africa who had recovered from a SARS-CoV-2 infection from the first wave of the epidemic are less effective at neutralising the new...Coronavirus Watch
Penny Moore was one of the first scientists to show that a coronavirus variant identified in South Africa could dodge the immune system. So, says a Nature report, the...
February 17th, 2021The muddled acquisition AstraZeneca vaccine from India, found on delivery to have an April expiry date and not the normal six-month one, continues, writes MedicalBrief....
January 13th, 2021As South Africa battled COVID-19 and deaths rose, many turned to traditional herbs for treatment, writes Medscape. The problem is how to bring scientific rigour into the...
A study in South Africa and Uganda that compared community-based with clinic-based antiretroviral treatment (ART) services found community-based services led to...
June 10th, 2020A critical 500-person Cape Town trial, part of an international examination into whether the BCG vaccine protects against COVID-19, is under pressure from demands from...
April 1st, 2020
Tuberculosis (TB) and HIV pose a significant burden on South Africa’s health system. And now there's the coronavirus.
There’s a close relationship between the TB...
September 4th, 2019
Clusters of new cases of tuberculosis (TB) provide strong evidence of areas that need to be prioritised for improved antiretroviral therapy (ART) coverage, and...
March 13th, 2019An international review outlines how healthcare workers in low-income countries, like those in sub-Saharan Africa, could use existing smartphones to diagnose, track and...
