The World Health Organization (WHO) recently released new rapid guidance recommending that children of all ages with drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) have access to...News Release
To prevent system collapse in Livingstone Hospital as COVID-19 case numbers continue to rise in the Eastern Cape’s Nelson Mandela Bay municipality, Doctors Without...Weekly Roundup
Netcare has resumed elective surgery at all its hospitals, while Western Cape public hospitals are on the verge of doing so, subject to pre-surgery COVID-19...Weekly Roundup
Across South Africa and around the world, the pandemic has disrupted the supply of antiretroviral drugs, endangering the lives of many of the more than 24m people...News Release
As cases of COVID-19 continue to escalate, those assisting communities continue to forge ahead. As they work tirelessly to continue to support, feed and protect...
March 27th, 2019The SA health service offers free, legal abortions. So why, asks Voice of America, are more than half of abortions in the country illegal, backstreet ones, causing...
The US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention was forced to withdraw its Ebola experts from an out-break zone in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) several...Weekly Roundup
In 2017, 1.6m people around the world died of tuberculosis (TB) which persists as the globe’s top infectious disease killer, despite being preventable and curable....Weekly Roundup
The head of the World Health Organisation (WHO) has cautioned against declaring victory too early in Democratic Republic of Congo’s Ebola epidemic, despite encouraging...Africa
Although the rapid World Health Organisation response to the outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is a far cry from the tragically slow...
