As the World Health Organization (WHO) convenes a ‘call to action' this week on the need to scale up access to preventive treatment for tuberculosis (TB), Doctors...
March 17th, 2021Long before COVID-19 hit, the Eastern Cape Health system was already in crisis, with warnings over many years from the likes of the Public Service Accountability...
Médecins Sans Frontières, which is running a COVID-19 ward in Nelson Mandela Bay in the Eastern Cape, has appealed to the government to strengthen its national...SA Provincial Health
The SA Medical Association and Médecins Sans Frontières have called on doctors to volunteer against an Eastern Cape COVID-19 surge, while the COVID-19 Ministerial...Weekly Roundup
Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders, MSF) has hailed South Africa's call to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to allow countries the choice not to enforce...International
The medical NGO Médecins Sans Frontières is institutionally racist and reinforces colonialism and white supremacy in its humanitarian work. The Gaurdian reports that...Weekly Roundup
A pharmaceutical multinational slashed the price of a key anti-tuberculosis drug boosting the battle against the world's deadliest infectious disease, as a new...Weekly Roundup
Bono, Bill Gates, and heads of state convened in eastern France for the Sixth Replenishment of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, which slightly...HIV/AIDS
Point-of-care viral load testing resulted in higher rates of switching and shorter periods on failing treatment than laboratory-based viral load testing in rural Malawi...Africa
The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has been declared a global emergency, with the World Health Organisation (WHO) calling for international...
