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Why your flu shot matters this winter

Why your flu shot matters this winter

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Board of Health Funders exposes transparency concerns in healthcare regulation

Katja Hamilton 8 Aug 2023

Zarcare: The future of healthcare in South Africa

Zarcare: The future of healthcare in South Africa

Zarcare 26 May 2023

Source: Reuters.

WHO says risk 'moderate' after laboratory in Sudan seized by fighters

2 May 2023

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Diagnosis of TB lagging post-pandemic

24 Mar 2023

Equatorial Guinea confirms eight more Marburg cases - WHO

Sofia Christensen and Nellie Peyton 24 Mar 2023

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RSV on the rise, hospitals urged to prepare for paediatric admissions

23 Mar 2023

Source: Reuters.

Ebola vaccinations to roll out in east Congo this week

24 Aug 2022

Source: Reuters. A health worker in protective clothing carries waste for disposal outside the isolation ward where victims of the deadly Marburg virus are treated in the northern Angolan town of Uige, File.

Ghana confirms its first outbreak of highly infectious Marburg virus

Alessandra Prentice and Nellie Peyton 18 Jul 2022

Source: Reuters.

South Africa confirms third monkeypox case in tourist from Switzerland

Alexander Winning, Bhargav Acharya and Olivia Kumwenda-Mtambo 12 Jul 2022

An Ebola survivor who works as a nurse, waits to receive tubes for taking blood samples at the Ebola treatment centre in Katwa, near Butembo, in the DRC, 3 October 2019. Reuters/Zohra Bensemra

DRC declares end to Ebola outbreak

Nellie Peyton 4 Jul 2022

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Extension on Covid-19 regulation public comments

5 May 2022

Abbott seeks new treatment standards for Africa's silent killer disease

Abbott seeks new treatment standards for Africa's silent killer disease

29 Apr 2022

Clean drinking water: Discharging raw sewage into rivers and dams is a national security issue

Clean drinking water: Discharging raw sewage into rivers and dams is a national security issue

Professor Anthony Turton 28 Mar 2022

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Women empowerment key in fight against HIV and Aids

Women empowerment key in fight against HIV and Aids

2 Dec 2021

Heineken employees vaccinated in Sedibeng

Heineken employees vaccinated in Sedibeng

Heineken South Africa 26 Oct 2021

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TB: an orphan disease?

Danette Breitenbach 1 Oct 2021

Cape Town centre offers a hot meal and a vaccine to homeless people

Cape Town centre offers a hot meal and a vaccine to homeless people

Marecia Damons 14 Sep 2021

A child gets a dose of the oral polio vaccine. Simon Maina/AFP via Getty Images

It's been a year since Africa was declared polio free. But a threat remains

Wayne Howard & Melinda Suchard 27 Aug 2021

A health worker receives a vaccine against Ebola at a hospital after a case of Ebola was confirmed in Abidjan, Ivory Coast 16 August 2021. Reuters/Luc Gnago

Ivory Coast begins Ebola vaccinations after case confirmed in Abidjan

Loucoumane Coulibaly 17 Aug 2021

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Medical community slams top heart surgeon's anti-vaxx comments

16 Aug 2021

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Vaccine denialism kills: Mail & Guardian has let down its readers

Nathan Geffen and Mia Malan 10 Aug 2021

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Guinea records West Africa's first Marburg virus death

10 Aug 2021

Barbie debuts dolls in likeness of Covid-19 frontline workers

Barbie debuts dolls in likeness of Covid-19 frontline workers

5 Aug 2021

A childhood vaccine given at birth is effective. BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

This is no time to neglect hepatitis - 70-million Africans are infected

Pauline Bakibinga 27 Jul 2021

Dr Thulani Mhlanga, medical manager for vaccines at Pfizer South Africa

Adult vaccination could stop unnecessary deaths

20 Jul 2021

Healthcare worker, Boitsholo Mfolo, inside the digital x-ray truck at one of Africa Health Research Institute’s mobile screening camps in rural KwaZulu Natal, South Africa. Samora Chapman/ Africa Health Research Institute

Study shows a huge burden of undiagnosed disease in a rural South African district

Emily B Wong 28 Jun 2021

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How The Gambia beat trachoma, an infection that causes blindness

Musa Mutali 7 Jun 2021

The next pandemic is already happening - targeted disease surveillance can help prevent it

The next pandemic is already happening - targeted disease surveillance can help prevent it

Maureen Miller 3 Jun 2021

Ebola survivors: their health struggles and how best to support them

Ebola survivors: their health struggles and how best to support them

Peter B James, Abdulai Jawo Ba, Amie Steel, Jon Adams & Jon Wardle 28 May 2021

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