Researchers from the South African Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative at the University of Cape Town, the Aurum Institute, the Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in...Infectious Diseases
A blood biomarker of tuberculosis discriminated between people at high risk for tuberculosis and those who remained healthy, but an effective preventive therapy for...South Africa
South Africa’s mines are finding that pre-arranged hospital beds earmarked for mine workers afflicted with COVID-19 have already been allocated, as the country’s...South Africa
People with TB and HIV have a two to three-fold increased risk of dying of COVID-19, although this is still far less risky than for the elderly and people with diabetes,...
April 8th, 2020
Eminent HIV researcher Gita Ramjee died from COVID-19-related complications at a Durban hospital last week, the most high-profile victim of the disease in South Africa...
Parents up in arms after their sons’ circumcisions were botched at the surgery of a medical doctor contracted to perform the procedures. City Press reports that they...Weekly Roundup
The US Embassy in South Africa has announced plans to assist the country end long queues at clinics by making it possible for patients to “collect their lifesaving...
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...
A South African trial found that a strategy allowing primary care nurses to quickly provide empirical tuberculosis (TB) treatment for newly diagnosed people with...
