How extreme weather events are amplifying disease risks across the globe
In December, the Global Fund and the US President’s Emergency Plan for Aids Relief committed to funding the roll-out of lenacapavir in countries they support
Climate change is a risk to public health that demands immediate action
Stigmatising the marginalised is driven by vested interests, both in the case of African foreign nationals subject to xenophobia and South Africans facing economic doom
Health professionals have called on leaders at COP26 to prioritise changing food systems to reduce their effect on the climate, as well as to prevent deaths
President Cyril Ramaphosa welcomed the investment, noting that it ‘is a leapfrog to cutting edge technology’
South Africa must make dramatic shifts in its Covid-19 prevention strategies to include new evidence that Sars-CoV-2 spreads mainly through the air
Professor Salim Abdool Karim talks to Nicolene de Wee about his responsibility as head of the ministerial advisory committee tasked with guiding the government’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
As the pandemic’s second wave spreads through the country, the number of excess deaths increases too
Any of 850 000 viruses could cause the next global crisis. Experts say we should focus on prevention
It is imperative that we train healthcare workers and participate in continent-wide collaboration
The latest on the spread of covid-19, how it is affecting the world, and what efforts are being made to prevent the spread of the virus
But take the threat seriously and prepare for a community outbreak, says professor Cheryl Cohen
Western media has racialised the coronavirus outbreak, leading to increased Sinophobia in several countries. Such dehumanisation of a race has no place in functioning democracies
In many ways, violence is like cholera, passing from person to person and treating it in similar ways is working to reduce it.
Only six out of ten Angolan children have been vaccinated against yellow fever.
Economic exploitation in the developing world has resulted in under-resourced and weak health systems that could not contain the spread of viruses.
Gene sequencing tools allows scientists to untangle the genetic roots of many diseases and they’re looking at genetic variation in Africa.
Liberia suspects numerous infections and five deaths are from the Ebola virus spreading from neighbouring Guinea, with one suspected case in Canada.
A cheap, highly portable blood test has proven to be as accurate as expensive hospital-based analyses in detecting infectious diseases.
The immune system has been found to target viruses inside cells, suggesting new strategies to fight infections — including colds and gastroenteritis
With rabies and related viruses in Africa as the focus of her research, Dr Wanda Markotter has an interest in the viruses found in African bats.