South African Health Department
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Covid-19 booster shot possibly on cards for South Africans
The country’s health products regulator has received an application from vaccine manufacturer Pfizer for third-dose approval
Countering TB resistance was futile – but no longer
New drugs are working on XDR-TB – but must be strictly controlled to prevent further resistance.
Foreign doctors hold out a lifeline
Without their presence South Africa’s national health insurance cannot be implemented successfully to provide quality healthcare.
Dilemma as SA faces drug resistant TB epidemic
A guard in a surgical mask patrols a wire fence designed to keep dozens of patients with a lethal form of tuberculosis at Cape Town’s Brooklyn Chest hospital isolated from the…