The chief inspector of mines has issued a guidance note to assist mining companies to manage and control HIV in the workplace, which requires employers to put policies, plans, awareness and monitoring in place...
Nivaani Moodley, Kalene Watson & Shane Johnson 11 hours ago
Instagram and Twitter have blamed technical errors for deleting posts mentioning the possible eviction of Palestinians from East Jerusalem...
Maya Gebeily 2 days ago
Over the last few decades, African governments have removed restrictions on and privatised their mining industries, attracting significant foreign direct investment...
Ben Radley & Sara Geenen 13 Apr 2021
At the end of 2020, there was a strong hope that high levels of vaccination would see humanity finally gain the upper hand over SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19...
Salim Abdool Karim 6 Apr 2021
Is the website hosting that is powering your business' website a priority of yours? Business owners have a lot to think about and hosting is generally the IT department, web developer or web designer's "baby". However, if your website's performance is important to you, and we know it is, then so should your website hosting and its provider.
Issued by Domains.co.za 29 Mar 2021
MTN recently announced that it is rewarding its users that download the Covid-19 Alert South Africa app with 1GB of data...
Since 2013, global efforts have been made to gain control over the Aids epidemic by 2020 through UNAIDS' 90-90-90 targets...
Kathryn L Hopkins & Glenda Gray 30 Nov 2020
Twenty years ago treatment for HIV was a rare luxury in South Africa. Exorbitant costs and President Thabo Mbeki's government's fierce opposition to providing antiretroviral treatment (ART) kept it out of the public sector...
Gilles van Cutsem 19 Nov 2020
It may take an extreme heatwave, a mega wildfire or a severe coastal storm to begin to appreciate the dangers of climate change...
Alanna Rebelo, Karen Joan Esler, Michael Samways, Patricia Holmes, Tony Rebelo 11 Nov 2020
At the start of October, the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the Chinese government lauded South Africa's response to the global Covid-19 pandemic.
Benjamin T H Smart & Alex Broadbent 15 Oct 2020
When the Covid-19 pandemic began to spread rapidly across the globe, scientists expressed concern that people living with HIV would be particularly severely affected...
Nesri Padayatchi & Kogie Naidoo 21 Jul 2020
When President Cyril Ramaphosa announced the decision to implement an initial 21-day national lockdown in response to the threat posed by the Covid-19 pandemic, he referred to "modelling" on which the decision was based...
Seán Mfundza Muller 8 Jun 2020
South Africa's prevention of mother-to-child transmission programme has achieved remarkable successes in recent years. It has improved the health and life expectancy for pregnant women living with HIV...
Ute Feuch & Jeannette Wessels 9 Jan 2020
Experts in the South African residential market predict no improvement until the final quarter of 2020, when supply is expected to align better with demand...
With 2020 just weeks away, how is South Africa faring in achieving the 90-90-90 target in working towards an HIV-free world?
Nicci Botha 6 Dec 2019
Cipla, South Africa's third-largest pharmaceutical manufacturer, hosted an HIV/AIDS workshop in Sandton on Wednesday, ahead of World AIDS Day on 1 December 2019...
Cipla, Issued by Cipla 5 Dec 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 29 Nov 2019
South Africa has one of the highest incidences of HIV in the world. More than 7-million people in the country are living with HIV. This high prevalence rate has led scientists in the country to explore solutions for a wide range of clinical problems that HIV-positive patients face, including end stage kidney failure.
Elmi Muller 26 Nov 2019
The United Nations has set targets to end the AIDS epidemic by 2030. To do this the aim is to ensure that by next year, all countries will have achieved what the UN calls 90-90-90 targets...
Mhairi Maskew 26 Nov 2019
South Sudanese authorities confiscated the accreditation and work permit of Associated Press' correspondent, Sam Mednick, last week.
An international, collaborative study led by University of Cape Town (UCT) researchers has revealed an unexpected finding that could lead to better therapies towards reducing the HIV reservoir, a major barrier to developing a cure for HIV...
Corruption is one of the greatest obstacles to economic development. It deprives nations of income to invest into public services, with adverse implications for education, health, well-being, and prosperity...
Bernhard Reinsberg & Thomas Stubbs 30 Sep 2019
Fleet managers continue to struggle to reduce costs while keeping their trucks operational. Bridgestone has taken their customers' needs into consideration, working hard to develop solutions to help fleet owners overcome these challenges...
After 31 years of continuous and safe operation, the electrical and mechanical systems have neared its end of life, and are in need of replacement to ensure compliance to international safety standards...
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 31 Jul 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
Authorities in the Central African Republic should investigate police who allegedly assaulted two French reporters...
The life of agricultural soil in South Africa is in a state of total imbalance after years of uninformed application of agricultural chemicals combined with practices that are, often unwittingly, detrimental to soil health.
The Conversation Africa examined how various groups - including the government, Anglophone activists, media organisations and citizens - used social media to report on growing unrest in Cameroon...
Julius T. Nganji and Lynn Cockburn 17 Jun 2019
While South Africa has made great strides in scaling up HIV testing and increasing HIV suppression in patients receiving antiretroviral treatment (ART), the country is still struggling to reach ART coverage targets and is falling short of HIV prevention goals.
Demand for building management systems (BMS) is on the rise as the need for automation of security and other systems in buildings and large construction sites around the world grows...
LignoTech is an equal partnership joint venture between Sappi and Borregaard AS of Norway. The lignin extraction plant generates revenue from a previously unused component of the effluent stream from Sappi's Saiccor mill...
Issued by Sappi 9 Apr 2019
Fat grafting has become a popular and versatile procedure in plastic surgery. Historically it is not entirely new, we find anecdotal reports and descriptions of fat transplantation as far back as the early 1900s...
Frank Graewe 4 Mar 2019
Cipla, South Africa's third largest pharmaceutical manufacturer, has been awarded a share of the South African Government's National ARV tender for TEE and TLD...
Issued by Cipla 22 Feb 2019
Better communication is the key to integrating physical and IT security in enterprises today...
Much of the research on HIV has focused on preventing infection but little is understood about how the body keeps the virus in check post-infection. A new study by Yale investigators reveals the role of a protein that serves to block HIV gene expression once it has entered human cells...
Ziba Kashef 23 Jan 2019
2018 marks the 30th anniversary of World Aids Day. This year's theme, 'Know your status', reiterates the fact that HIV is a manageable disease...
Dr Eunice Ubomba-Jaswa 3 Dec 2018
African audiences have low levels of trust in the media, experience a high degree of exposure to misinformation, and contribute - often knowingly - to its spread...
Herman Wasserman & Dani Madri-Morales 26 Nov 2018
Muthoki Mumo and I embarked on a 10-day visit to Tanzania, primarily as a networking and fact-finding mission to gauge media freedom in Magufuli's Tanzania. We had nothing to hide, and even had a letter of invitation from the government-recognised press regulator. But then I heard a knock on my hotel room door...
Angela Quintal 14 Nov 2018
South Africa is one of four southern African countries aiming to eliminate malaria transmission...
Givemore Munhenga 9 Nov 2018
A United Nations initiative backed by global experts has set its sights on an ambitious programme to bring an end to the Aids epidemic by 2030...
Glenda Gray 23 Oct 2018
The low-cost, low-power nature of the IoT can cause security considerations to be deferred till much later in the product implementation stage, or sometimes, indefinitely...
Sherry Zameer 11 Sep 2018
A new study by the Yale School of Public Health and partner institutions is the first to examine the potential cancer prevention benefits of prolonged periods of HIV viral suppression, resulting from antiretroviral therapy, for persons living with HIV...
Elisabeth Reitman 25 Jun 2018
We are scaling up adherence clubs in SA to help patients attending public health facilities who have to take medication every day stay on their treatment and remain healthy...
The LGBTQI+ Banele Khoza exhibition was unveiled as part of the opening of the Curatorial Lab at Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA).
The overwhelming public response to the call for nominations continues to show that South Africans are deeply concerned about the state of their cultural heritage...
A strikingly toxic campaign ad was unleashed online in Kenya just weeks before national elections -- a potentially explosive move in a country where politics and ethnicity are closely aligned...
Network of African free expression groups calls for end to impunity for crimes against journalists...
Following the official opening of the University of Johannesburg's African Centre for Epistemology and Philosophy of Science, I caught up with Professor Alex Broadbent, the executive dean of the Faculty of Humanities, to find out a bit more about the development of the centre and its research...
Shan Radcliffe 31 May 2017