Great strides have been made in the global effort to eradicate polio. Reported cases of wild poliovirus have decreased by over 99% from an estimated 350,000 cases in 1988 to 33 in 2018...
Villyen Motaze & Melinda Suchard 22 hours ago
Communities have long played a critical role in the fight against HIV. Their activism and advocacy have greatly influenced the response to HIV/AIDS over the past four decades...
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A new antiretroviral drug regimen has been given the go-ahead by the World Health Organisation. This follows the preliminary results from studies that include an ongoing trial in South Africa...
Michelle Moorhouse & Willem Daniel Francois Venter 29 Nov 2019
An ongoing clinical trial is underway to further evaluate a new tuberculosis (TB) vaccine candidate MTBVAC in an adult endemic population...
21 Nov 2019
Global pharmaceutical sales are predicted to reach $1567.80 billion by 2023...
Eben Esterhuizen 18 Nov 2019
The ongoing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) recently surpassed 3,000 infections...
Emma Glennon & Freya Jephcott 22 Oct 2019
A total knee replacement operation has been carried out using the state-of-the-art Mako robotic arm assisted surgery system for the first time in Africa...
10 Oct 2019
Curacel is a Nigerian startup that aims to fast track claims processing and detects fraudulent claims for health insurance companies in Africa...
Evan-Lee Courie 4 Oct 2019
The last five years have witnessed the two biggest outbreaks of Ebola, first in West Africa and currently in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)...
Shirin Ashraf & Emma Thomson 30 Sep 2019
An HIV vaccine candidate - initially tested in Thailand, where it had modest effects - has shown potential in a study in South Africa...
Elsabé Brits 23 Sep 2019
Public health organisations around the world have been fighting for global eradication of polio since 1988. Through massive vaccination efforts, the incidence of polio has gone down 99% since then, with the virus eradicated from most of the countries on Earth...
Patricia L Foster 18 Sep 2019
Kenya has introduced a malaria vaccine to children from six months of age in selected areas of the country in a phased pilot introduction. It is the first and only vaccine to significantly reduce malaria in children...
16 Sep 2019
African startups Shopit, Exportunity and Wakulima from South Africa, Benin and Tanzania respectively, emerged the winners of the Nestlé Research and Development sub-Saharan innovation challenge...
4 Sep 2019
A change in the way we see, and deliver, healthcare has been a burgeoning investment in startups in the sector...
3 Sep 2019
It is often difficult to communicate exact locations to emergency response teams in South Africa's informal settlements and rural areas and on farms and beachs without any addresses or points of reference nearby...
21 Aug 2019
Mandi Fine is CEO of F/NE Group Global, which turns 20 years old this August. Here, Fine explains how specific data science and storytelling skills are transforming marketing and communications, as well as future trends to embrace in any industry...
Leigh Andrews 20 Aug 2019
Imagine this scenario. A couple of newly minted Master of Public Health graduates from an African university, say in Rwanda, land in Washington DC for a two-week visit...
Madhukar Pai 19 Aug 2019
The most-prescribed antimalarial drug is less effective in severely malnourished children, a University of Cape Town study shows...
16 Aug 2019
The most recent Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) rages on. There's been a continued increase in the number of new cases for a year since the outbreak was first declared...
Mosoka Fallah 12 Aug 2019
In August 2015 Dr Sakoba Keita, who led the Ebola response in Guinea during the largest Ebola outbreak the world has ever seen, declared...
Yap Boum 8 Aug 2019
A new antiretroviral drug regimen has been given the go-ahead by the World Health Organisation. This follows the preliminary results from studies that include an ongoing trial in South Africa...
Michelle Moorhouse & Willem Daniel Francois Venter 6 Aug 2019
Four years ago, the World Health Organisation (WHO) rolled out its global strategy to eliminate hepatitis by 2030. Known as a "silent killer" disease, hepatitis is a viral disease that causes inflammation of the liver...
Pauline Bakibinga 31 Jul 2019
Over the past 10 years, a community of practice has begun to develop in Africa around research that uses models to understand and evaluate population-level health problems and their potential solutions...
Juliet Pulliam & Jonathan Dushoff 29 Jul 2019
Globally, since 2010, vaccination coverage with three doses of diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis (DTP3) and one dose of the measles vaccine has stalled at around 86%...
16 Jul 2019
Global collaboration and sharing data on public health emergencies is important to fight the spread of infectious diseases...
Moses John Bockarie 8 Jul 2019
Over the last 100 years, healthcare systems across the African continent have started to evolve and transform slowly, in line with parallel changes experienced in the economic growth and social development of each country...
Anuschka Coovadia 5 Jul 2019
Babies are normally vaccinated against measles at 12 months old. But doctors are now suggesting having the shot as early as six months might be worthwhile for youngsters traveling overseas.
Nicholas Wood, Alexis Pillsbury and Jean Li-Kim-Moy 28 Jun 2019
An R18m donation from an alumnus will go towards research into African-centric medicines for infectious diseases at the University of Cape Town (UCT) Drug Discovery and Development Centre, H3D...
28 Jun 2019
If you want to reduce your risk of getting Alzheimer's disease, there is no end of advice on the internet telling you how to do it...
Elisabet Englund & Keivan Javanshiri 26 Jun 2019
There is no doubt that Africa is grappling with numerous challenges such as climate change, low agricultural productivity, poor health standards, rapid growing population and poverty...
21 Jun 2019