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Q&A Sessions: ‘I should have fought harder for SA vaccine’ — Salim Abdool Karim

Coronavirus Nicolene de Wee - 12 Jan 2021

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.

Affirming medicine as a public good

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Medical science has developed hugely powerful technologies that can be used for social purposes. But to achieve this, it needs to be clearly on the side of the people

Spend less on arms and more on science

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We dedicate a lot more time and money to military defence than we do on health responses to deadly pathogens

The coronavirus is a disease of Chinese autocracy

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An outbreak of a new coronavirus that began in the Chinese city of Wuhan has already infected over 4000 people – mostly in China, but also...

The past, the present and the future at UP

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The university is launching four transdisciplinary initiatives to harness knowledge in the 4IR era

Prioritising an overarching approach to medicines regulatory systems strengthening

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The aim is to improve access to quality, safe and efficacious medical products

How biobanks can help improve the integrity of scientific research

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Most biobanks, whether small or large, have high quality assurance and control measures in place

Missing medicines and missing money: Why a bigger crisis looms in North West

Article Russell Rensburg & Bhekisisa Team - 19 Apr 2018

Provincial medicine shortages may be just the beginning.

State capture strikes again? Why 95% of medicines are missing at North West clinics

Article Nelisiwe Msomi & Bhekisisa Team - 13 Apr 2018

Striking workers say a go-slow at the province's central depot will continue until their demands are met.

We need our foreign doctors

Article Palesa Lebitse - 6 Apr 2018

Yet these skilled professionals are discriminated against by their colleagues

Malawi’s drone battlefield is on the humanitarian front

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The government, in partnership with the United Nations Children's Fund, has opened the first humanitarian drone corridor in Africa.

South Africa is placed on alert for ‘superbug’ as drug-resistant yeast infections rise globally

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Health experts warn of a potentially fatal fungal infection that is said to be spreading in hospitals.

Reckless farm meds feed superbugs

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The overuse and abuse of antibiotics strengthens lethal, drug-resistant bacteria.

Forever young no longer just a dream

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American researchers think it will help to get rid of senescent cells, that were previously thought of as inert instead of trouble-causers.

War declared on the ‘superbugs’

Article Staff Reporter - 17 Jul 2014

Several initiatives are under way to stop the abuse of antibiotics.

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Q&A Sessions: ‘I should have fought harder for SA vaccine’ — Salim Abdool Karim

Affirming medicine as a public good

Spend less on arms and more on science

The coronavirus is a disease of Chinese autocracy

The past, the present and the future at UP

Prioritising an overarching approach to medicines regulatory systems strengthening

How biobanks can help improve the integrity of scientific research

Missing medicines and missing money: Why a bigger crisis looms in North West

State capture strikes again? Why 95% of medicines are missing at North West clinics

We need our foreign doctors

Malawi’s drone battlefield is on the humanitarian front

South Africa is placed on alert for ‘superbug’ as drug-resistant yeast infections rise globally

Reckless farm meds feed superbugs

Forever young no longer just a dream

War declared on the ‘superbugs’

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