The primary analysis of Johnson & Johnson's Phase 2b HIV vaccine clinical trial known as the Imbokodo study has been stopped, after showing that the investigational...South Africa
As many as four out of five South Africans may have contracted COVID-19, indicating that the country may be one of the worldʼs hardest-hit nations by the disease,...
August 18th, 2021Another study into minimum pricing of alcohol in South Africa, published in BMJ Open, has found that a minimum unit price (MUP) of R10 per standard drink could save more...
As well as almost 75,000 death directly attributed to the pandemic, most of the 222,000 excess deaths recorded over the past year are probably related to COVID-19,...
July 7th, 2021The World Health Organization and its COVAX partners are working with a South African consortium to establish the continent’s first COVID-19 mRNA vaccine technology...
July 7th, 2021Another research missile has been fired into the debate over the effectiveness of alcohol bans in reducing trauma admissions to hospitals in South Africa, thus...
May 19th, 2021Bans on alcohol could be a sensible policy to help South Africa through new health crises, suggests a study published this week in the Australasian journal Drug and...
South African experts have called for a reality check, says a Sunday Times report: COVID-19 is an airborne disease, so it's not going away. Vaccines will reduce...HIV/AIDS
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...Weekly Roundup
One of the key recommendations from the National TB Prevalence Survey is to increase “access to TB screening and testing services through outreach programmes using...
