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Doja Cat, Post Malone, and Rauw Alejandro to headline 2024 Global Citizen Fest in NYC's Central Park

Music

Doja Cat, Post Malone, and Rauw Alejandro to headline 2024 Global Citizen Fest in NYC's Central Park

Issued by OnPoint PR 19 Jun 2024

SU's Professor Tulio de Oliveira selected for Time100 Health 2024

Education & Training

SU's Professor Tulio de Oliveira selected for Time100 Health 2024

Issued by Stellenbosch University 6 May 2024

Public Health

Can the UN impose sanctions on SA? You bet it can… and One Health may be the tipping point

Katja Hamilton 15 Mar 2024

Malaria

Cape Verde is the third African country to eliminate malaria: here’s how

Tiaan de Jager and Taneshka Kruger 5 Feb 2024

A view shows a part of Sidi El Barrak dam at low water levels, in Nafza, west of the capital Tunis, Tunisia, 7 January 2023. Reuters/Jihed Abidellaoui

Climate Change

Climate change is the biggest human health risk, says Africa's disease boss

30 Nov 2023

Source: Reuters.

Public Health

WHO recommends malaria vaccine that will be rolled out next year

4 Oct 2023

Healthcare

From fatal allergies to heart attacks and cholera - the devastating health effects of global warming in Africa

Lenore Manderson 7 Sep 2023

Source: Reuters.A boy covers his face from smoke as a health worker fumigates against mosquitoes in a residential area, as Sri Lanka tries to curb dengue fever across the island in Colombo, Sri Lanka 12 July, 2023.

Public Health

WHO warns of dengue risk as global warming pushes cases near historic highs

Emma Farge 21 Jul 2023

Public Health

Consortium sparks debate over intellectual property of mRNA vaccines manufactured in SA

Katja Hamilton 21 Apr 2023

Source: Supplied: Petro Terblanche, managing director of Afrigen,

Medical Research

#AfricaMonth: Injecting the continent - and the world - with hope

Katja Hamilton 20 May 2022

We're a step closer to figuring out why mosquitoes bite some people and not others

Malaria

We're a step closer to figuring out why mosquitoes bite some people and not others

Madelien Wooding & Yvette Naude 19 May 2021

#MarketingMasterminds: Blue Robot | Facebook Marketing Partner | Kyle Oosthuizen

#MetaMarketingMasterminds

#MarketingMasterminds: Blue Robot | Facebook Marketing Partner | Kyle Oosthuizen

Issued by Meta 26 Feb 2021

Secure meat-hungry food systems to prevent next pandemic

Food Security

Secure meat-hungry food systems to prevent next pandemic

Fatima Arkin 24 Jul 2020

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

Malaria

Breakthrough: microbe found to block the transmission of malaria

Jeremy Herren 9 Jun 2020

Tourism & Travel

WTTC recognises Mauritius as a safe destination

1 Jun 2020

Healthcare workers testing people in Nairobi, Kenya during a mass testing exercise for Covid-19. Photo by SIMON MAINA/AFP via Getty Images

Covid-19

Sub-Saharan Africa needs to plug local knowledge gap to up its anti-Covid-19 game

Alex Ezeh & Sharon Fonn 28 May 2020

New report presses for radical rethink on child health

Health & Social Welfare

New report presses for radical rethink on child health

20 Feb 2020

Mosquito eggs can remain viable for years even in dry conditions and hatch after heavy persistent rains. Shutterstock

Infectious Diseases

Heavy rains put Kenya at risk of mosquito-borne diseases

Eunice Anyango Owino 23 Jan 2020

Millions of young children get malaria. These two got it in 2010.
AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam

Pharmaceuticals

There's a way for modern medicine to cure diseases even when the treatments aren't profitable

James Leahy 28 Oct 2019

Dr Tapiwa Chiwewe, research manager for IBM Research, South Africa

Medtech

#HASA2019: AI is a game changer in attaining universal health coverage

28 Aug 2019

Ministers pledge to fight the rise in vector-borne diseases

Malaria

Ministers pledge to fight the rise in vector-borne diseases

23 Aug 2019

Leishmaniasis is caused by a parasite that is carried by a female sandfly. CDC/ Frank Collins

Noncommunicable diseases

Leishmaniasis needs more attention: it causes skin lesions, and can kill

Ramona Hurdayal & Raphael Taiwo Aruleba 15 Jul 2019

Integral considerations for the water sector towards sustainable rural development

Food, Water & Energy Security

Integral considerations for the water sector towards sustainable rural development

Dhesigen Naidoo 15 Jul 2019

A woman receiving an oral cholera vaccine in Beira, Mozambique. Celeste Mac-Arthur

Public Health

Cyclone Idai is over - but its health effects will be felt for a long time

Kerrigan McCarthy & Lucille Blumberg 15 Apr 2019

Kissing bug: spreader of Chagas disease. schlyx/Shutterstock

Public Health

Venezuela: region's infectious crisis is a disaster of hemispheric proportions

Martin Llewellyn 26 Mar 2019

Set of genes predicts severity of dengue

Medical Research

Set of genes predicts severity of dengue

4 Feb 2019

People living in run-down, inner city apartments, like these in Cairo, are at risk of heat-stress health problems. Shutterstock

Noncommunicable diseases

How global warming is adding to the health risks of poor people

Lenore Manderson 28 Jan 2019

10 biggest threats to global health

Public Health

10 biggest threats to global health

15 Jan 2019

A close-up of a female Anopheles arabiensis feeding. Author supplied

Malaria

South Africa investigates sterilising mosquitoes in anti-malaria drive

Givemore Munhenga 9 Nov 2018

Infectious Diseases

Climate change, water and the spread of diseases: connecting the dots differently

Lenore Manderson 17 Sep 2018

Dr Caradee Wright, senior specialist scientist at the South African Medical Research Council

Public Health

Climate change and its affect on healthcare systems

5 Apr 2018

$129bn in extreme weather losses last year

Climate Change

$129bn in extreme weather losses last year

2 Nov 2017

A man sorting a sea of plastic bottles at one of the Wecycler hubs in Lagos, Nigeria. Most plastic litter from cities ends up in oceans. Photo: Panos/Joan Bardeletti

Circular Economy & Waste Management

Plastics pose biggest threat to oceans

Zipporah Musau 27 Jun 2017

Photo: Malaria Consortium

Infectious Diseases

Targetting vector-borne diseases

6 Jun 2017

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Malaria

New UN-backed citizen-led alliance formed against mosquito-borne diseases

10 May 2017

SAB Foundation Social Innovation Awards, Disability Empowerment Awards winners announced

Marketing & Media

SAB Foundation Social Innovation Awards, Disability Empowerment Awards winners announced

1 Nov 2016

Mobile screening program for hypertension and diabetes in select local counties in Kenya

ESG

Improved access to medicines for Sub-Saharan Africa pledged

2 Sep 2016

Increasing accessibility to medicine in Africa

CSI

Increasing accessibility to medicine in Africa

26 Aug 2016

Amber Alert sign: Another example of the use of DOOH to locate missing/abducted children. Image © from Honolulu, Hawaii - ,

OOH

#MandelaMonth: Why we love billboards that save the world

Terry Murphy 26 Jul 2016

Bacteria could spell the end for mosquito-borne diseases

Malaria

Bacteria could spell the end for mosquito-borne diseases

7 Jun 2016

With technology, there's no need to fear the walking dead

Technology

With technology, there's no need to fear the walking dead

Lee Naik 2 Jun 2016

Zika virus linked to stillbirth, other symptoms in Brazil

Medical Research

Zika virus linked to stillbirth, other symptoms in Brazil

Michael Greenwood 1 Mar 2016

Center for Disease Control and Prevention issues warning on travel to South America

Public Health

Center for Disease Control and Prevention issues warning on travel to South America

Amanda Bourlier 17 Feb 2016

Researcher's fascination with mosquito genetics may help address Zika crisis

Medical Research

Researcher's fascination with mosquito genetics may help address Zika crisis

Karen N. Peart 5 Feb 2016

Precautions for travellers going to Ebola areas

Infectious Diseases

Precautions for travellers going to Ebola areas

19 Aug 2014

Visiting Brazil - stay healthy

Public Health

Visiting Brazil - stay healthy

27 May 2014

Research in the news: A viral trick, revealed

Infectious Diseases

Research in the news: A viral trick, revealed

Bill Hathaway 9 Sep 2013