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A child receives a vaccine against Ebola from a nurse in Goma on August 7, 2019. AUGUSTIN WAMENYA/AFP via Getty Images

The coping mechanisms the DRC is putting in place as it faces Ebola, measles and Covid-19

Yap Boum 23 Jun 2020

NWU engineers walk away with international award for tackling Covid-19

NWU engineers walk away with international award for tackling Covid-19

North-West University (NWU) 23 Jun 2020

Nomzamo Mngupane has been a nurse for six years. She said there have been staff shortages since 2018 and it has got worse since the Covid-19 pandemic. Photo: Ashraf Hendricks

Nurses picket over staff shortages at False Bay Hospital

Ashraf Hendricks 22 Jun 2020

'A food safety crisis now would bring SA's medical sector to its knees'

'A food safety crisis now would bring SA's medical sector to its knees'

22 Jun 2020

Health Minister Zweli Mkhize

Longer lockdown won't delay peak - Mkhize

22 Jun 2020

Pharma Dynamics CEO kicks off Tutudesk Covid-19 Challenge with R1.2m pledge

Pharma Dynamics CEO kicks off Tutudesk Covid-19 Challenge with R1.2m pledge

22 Jun 2020

How is Covid-19 boosting SA's cough, cold and flu remedies market?

How is Covid-19 boosting SA's cough, cold and flu remedies market?

Insight Survey 22 Jun 2020

Counselling Hub boosts mental healthcare response during Covid-19 crisis

Counselling Hub boosts mental healthcare response during Covid-19 crisis

19 Jun 2020

Poor mental health is as big a threat as poor physical health in the time of corona

Poor mental health is as big a threat as poor physical health in the time of corona

19 Jun 2020

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How deadly is Covid-19?

GroundUp and Spotlight staff 19 Jun 2020

SA youth exhibiting strain amidst surging Covid-19 cases

SA youth exhibiting strain amidst surging Covid-19 cases

ASK AFRICA 19 Jun 2020

South Africa must redirect efforts to managing the high-risk social spaces such as public transport. Getty Images

South Africa can get Covid-19 under control if it blocks the routes that enable transmission

Alex van den Heever, Imraan Valodia, Lucy Allais, Martin Veller, Shabir Madhi & Willem Daniel Franco 18 Jun 2020

In South Africa, both HIV and pre-eclampsia are a burden to maternal health. GettyImages

HIV and high blood pressure in pregnancy: we're tracing the connections

Sayuri Padayachee 18 Jun 2020

A security guard checks the body temperature of a motorcyclist as a preventive measure. Risa Krisadhi/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

So you think investing in fever screening can curb the spread of Covid-19? Think again

Andrea Fuller & Duncan Mitchell 17 Jun 2020

Africa news

A child receives a vaccine against Ebola from a nurse in Goma on August 7, 2019. AUGUSTIN WAMENYA/AFP via Getty Images

The coping mechanisms the DRC is putting in place as it faces Ebola, measles and Covid-19

Yap Boum 23 Jun 2020

Anopheles Stephensi, Sem. Photo By BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Breakthrough: microbe found to block the transmission of malaria

Jeremy Herren 9 Jun 2020

Lagos state officials disinfecting roads in the state. Shutterstock

Coronavirus: what Nigeria can do post lockdown

Doyin Ogunyemi 3 Jun 2020

People observing social distancing as they queue for mass testing for the Covid-19 coronavirus in a Nairobi suburb. (Photo by Tony Karumba/AFP via Getty Images)

What Kenya must look out for before easing Covid-19 restrictions

Mark Nanyingi 2 Jun 2020

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