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Some provisions of the WHO’s health regulations and draft Pandemic Agreement impinge on the sanctity of the doctor-patient relationship. Photo: David Harrison
BEDAQUILINE

TB talks: Will #UNGA78 change these three lives?

In the past five years, none of the targets political leaders adopted after the previous round of high-level discussions on the fight against tuberculosis at the United Nations…

  • Nicole Ludolph
  • Bhekisisa Team
11 min read
Mandatory vaccination involves, at a glance, the constitutional rights to bodily integrity, privacy, to protection against unfair discrimination and to freedom of thought, religion, conscience and opinion. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
BOOSTER

It’s your last shot at the Pfizer vaccine before the roll-out changes

Just under a third of South Africa’s Pfizer vaccines are set to expire by July, so the health department is trying to increase uptake of the doses and donate spare shots

  • Mia Malan
  • Laura Grant
9 min read
Used vials of the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine. (Photo by Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images)
BOITUMELO SEMETE MAKOKOTLELA

Wait, donate, demolish: Why millions of South Africa’s vaccines will never be used

Children aged five to 11 get smaller doses of the Pfizer vaccine than adults. That means the government will have to buy new vials to vaccinate this age group but the health…

  • Mia Malan
6 min read
Drought has left nearly two million Kenyans at risk. (Photo by Noor Khamis/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
AFRICA

Africa in brief: 11-18 September

Your Africa updates: What happened on the continent this past week

  • The Continent
4 min read
Used vials of the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine. (Photo by Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images)
ASPEN PHARMACARE

J&J’s failure to deliver adequate Covid-19 doses to South Africa is nothing new

South Africa is still awaiting millions of Covid-19 vaccines from Johnson & Johnson even though the country contributed to its research through the Ensemble and Sisonke studies

  • Candice Sehoma
5 min read
Local residents wearing protective face masks wait at a bus stop in the Imizamo Yethu township area of Hout Bay, in Cape Town, South Africa, on Friday, July 24, 2020. South Africas surging coronavirus infections and the resumption of rolling blackouts are clouding the outlook for the economy. Photographer: Dwayne Senior/Bloomberg via Getty Images
ACCESS

Low vaccination rates due to access issues and misinformation

Vaccine acceptance has risen to 72%, but inequality remains the biggest stumbling block for poor people’s access to the jab

  • Marcia Zali
8 min read
Johnson & Johnson plans to replace our two-million unusable vaccines by July. The vaccines are unsuitable for use and must be destroyed, while the country’s vaccination programme is behind schedule. (Photo by Gregor Fischer/picture alliance via Getty Images)
ACTIVE INGREDIENT

Two-million new J&J jabs to come within two weeks, says Aspen

Johnson & Johnson plans to replace our two-million unusable vaccines by July. The vaccines are unsuitable for use and must be destroyed, while the country’s vaccination programme…

  • Mia Malan
11 min read
Has Africa taken its foot off the pedal in the race to secure enough Covid-19 vaccines for all?
CAPRISA

South Africa can now keep Pfizer jabs in a bar fridge for a month

Vaccine roll-out will be easier now that Pfizer confirms the lifespan of its Covid-19 vaccine in a refrigerator is more than six times longer than first estimated

  • Aisha Abdool Karim
  • Joan Van Dyk
7 min read
(Photo by Deaan Vivier/Beeld/Gallo Images via Getty Images)
COVID 19

How to get your Covid-19 vaccine

Since the start of 2020 the country has paused its roll-out twice, swapped AstraZeneca jabs for Pfizer’s and Johnson & Johnson’s and now phase two has started

  • Joan Van Dyk
  • Aisha Abdool Karim
10 min read
ASTRAZENECA
Video

Your guide to side effects: What you can expect after a Covid-19 jab

Soon, South Africa will start with its mass vaccine roll-out. We take a look at what to expect when you get vaccinated.

  • Gopolang Makou
10 min read
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CORONAVIRUS

State of play after 400 days of South African lockdown

With about 1.5-million infections and 54 000 deaths, Covid-19 is still very much part of our lives as the state works to boost vaccinations

  • Eunice Masson
  • Chris Bateman
6 min read
CORONAVIRUS

Mkhize: South Africa won’t end up in India-like Covid third wave crisis

The department of health briefed parliament on South Africa’s readiness for a possible third Covid-19 wave, as members’ expressed concerns in light of India’s surge in…

  • Eunice Masson
3 min read
ASTRAZENECA

Paddy Harper’s on the Rastazenica vaccine

Thursday. It’s Day 385 of the Covid-19 lockdown. Like most of my fellow South Africans, I’m wondering when, if ever, it will be my turn to get vaccinated. There’s no real answer…

  • Paddy Harper
4 min read
AIRBUS

The many failures of the flight that fetched SA’s vaccines

After not flying for a year, SAA nearly botches humanitarian flight to Brussels — among other infringements — and then delays reporting the issue

  • Erika Gibson
8 min read
COVID 19

The Covid-19 inoculation target may be revised, says Mkhize

The health minister said supply may be constrained but the department was finalising more vaccine deals

  • Marcia Zali
2 min read