The use of therapeutic vaccines was the major topic at the Immune Reconstitution and Control of HIV meeting in Italy last week.
The Ministry of Defence on Thursday said concerns about the quality of medical support for SA National Defence Force (SANDF) troops in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) were misplaced.
Tiny, winged beetles are breeding in a 13-year-old Indian boy’s body, a doctor confirmed on Thursday, while explaining this bizarre but not a totally unknown phenomenon.
The Zimbabwe government is to withdraw the operating licences of transport companies that shut down during a week of mass action early this month to protest against President Robert Mugabe’s government, state-run ZBC radio station said on Thursday.
The informal potluck lunch had just gotten under way at a gentrified farm house outside Oxford when that age-old British preoccupation with class suddenly surfaced.
The Medicines Control Council has approved the first human clinical trials for a phase one HIV vaccine trial in South Africa, with the use of cutting edge technology, the government news agency BuaNews reported on Thursday.
The big South African banks have strengthened their hold on the market, but are likely to be transformed by the country’s proposed financial empowerment charter, says Moody’s Investors Service in a new Banking System Outlook on South Africa.
The Kenyan government is to declassify and release secret documents to help unravel the role played by retired president Daniel arap Moi’s regime in a financial scandal that defrauded the treasury of billions of dollars.
Nigerian journalist Ibiba DonPedro of The Guardian clinched the CNN Africa Journalist of the Year award on Wednesday night.
The African National Congress has triumphed by four votes in a fierce election battle with the Democratic Alliance in Cloetesville in Stellenbosch, the Cape Times reported on Thursday.