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Public Health

Telling people to use antibiotics responsibly isn’t enough. What will work instead

Marina Joubert 22 Dec 2025

Source: Wikimedia/Lschefa, CC BY-SA 4.0. Lesotho’s capital.

HIV/AIDS

Lesotho’s health system has been decimated by US funding cuts

Sechaba Mokhethi 2 Jun 2025

Healthcare

Why is it so difficult to make a new antibiotic?

Alistair Farley and Helen Smith 22 Apr 2025

An educator uses a model of the HIV virus to illustrate a lesson on Aids to youths at a primary health centre in Kobi suburb, Abuja, Nigeria 30 November 2022. Reuters/Afolabi Sotunde/File Photo

HIV/AIDS

New HIV prevention drug could reach poorest countries by 2025, says health official

Jennifer Rigby 18 Dec 2024

Source: Francesca Conradie.

Tuberculosis

Study revolutionises global TB treatment

28 Aug 2024

HIV/AIDS

HIV drug trial shows injection twice-yearly 100% effective against infection

Linda-Gail Bekker 5 Jul 2024

Source: Supplied. Amsterdam Institute for Global Health & Development.

Tuberculosis

$94m injected into TB fight

25 Mar 2024

Tuberculosis

South Africa confronts alarming TB death rate despite declining infections

13 Dec 2023

Multi-strain products supporting South Africa’s probiotics market culture

Medical Research

Multi-strain products supporting South Africa’s probiotics market culture

Issued by Insight Survey 22 Nov 2023

Vital role of nutrition in the TB recovery journey

Nutrition

Vital role of nutrition in the TB recovery journey

Issued by Association for Dietetics in South Africa 14 Nov 2023

Source: Professor Kogie Naidoo has been elected as a Fellow of the prestigious Royal Society in South Africa (RSSAf).

HIV/AIDS

Renowned TB scientist elected Fellow, Royal Society South Africa

18 Sep 2023

Tuberculosis

Tackle TB, prevent future pandemics, report finds

22 Mar 2023

TB is once again the deadliest disease in Africa - what went wrong?

Tuberculosis

TB is once again the deadliest disease in Africa - what went wrong?

Tom Nyirenda 20 Dec 2022

J&J teams up with African scientists to find new drugs to address antimicrobial resistance

Healthcare

J&J teams up with African scientists to find new drugs to address antimicrobial resistance

28 Apr 2022

Malaria

The warning lights are on for malaria medicines in Africa

Fredros Okumu and Deus Ishengoma 14 Dec 2021

Source: ©Vitaliy Vodolazskyy

Tuberculosis

First-of-a-kind TB dashboard launched

21 Sep 2021

Source: ©The Global Fund. A march through Agogo town in Ghana to educate citizens on malaria

HIV/AIDS

Covid-19's adverse impact on HIV, TB and malaria programmes

8 Sep 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

Noncommunicable diseases

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

Emily B Wong 28 Jun 2021

Six-month treatment effective for multi-drug-resistant TB, study finds

Tuberculosis

Six-month treatment effective for multi-drug-resistant TB, study finds

8 Jun 2021

Dr Mohammed Rassool, deputy director, and Dr Pauline Howell, senior medical officer, Clinical HIV Research Unit

Tuberculosis

#WorldTBDay2021: Dramatic strides in research, but with challenges

Mohammed Rassool & Pauline Howell 24 Mar 2021

Medicines are only approved for use by the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority when there is sufficient evidence that their benefits outweigh their risks.

Covid-19

Ivermectin and Covid-19: Why it's promising but why we need to be cautious

Rufaro Samanga 15 Jan 2021

Dr Bha Ndungane-Tlakula, country medical director, Pfizer South Africa

Public Health

Antimicrobial resistance - a threat to modern health

20 Nov 2020

Illustration of Neisseria gonorrhoeae bacteria. GettyImages

Infectious Diseases

Drug-resistant gonorrhoea is a growing threat: a South African case study

Remco Peters & Liteboho Daniel Maduna 28 Oct 2020

Malaria

Malaria parasites in Nigeria are genetically diverse: a danger but also a useful tool

Segun Isaac Oyedeji 20 Oct 2020

Michael Moloney/Shutterstock

Medical Research

Antibiotic resistance: cheap diagnostic test could be a saviour

Lara Marks & Ankur Mutreja 11 Aug 2020

Why Africa needs more antibiotic trials involving children

Medical Research

Why Africa needs more antibiotic trials involving children

Pui-Ying Iroh Tam 4 Aug 2020

The urban poor have been hit hard by coronavirus. We must ask who cities are designed to serve

Sustainable Development

The urban poor have been hit hard by coronavirus. We must ask who cities are designed to serve

Colin McFarlane 8 Jun 2020

A bottle of Covid Organics, a herbal tea that authorities in Madagascar gave to students. Photo by Rijasolo/AFP via Getty Images

Covid-19

Why more must be done to fight bogus Covid-19 cure claims

Chimaraoke Izugbara & Mary O Obiyan 19 May 2020

It’s important for scientists to have the most thorough understanding of HIV. Shutterstock

HIV/AIDS

What the discovery of a new HIV strain means for the pandemic

Linda-Gail Bekker 7 Feb 2020

Camp beds set up for travelers returning to Germany from China, who will be isolated for two weeks to make sure they don’t have coronavirus.
YANN SCHREIBER/AFP via Getty Images

Infectious Diseases

Quarantines have tried to keep out disease for thousands of years

Leslie S. Leighton 5 Feb 2020

Bacteriophages infecting a bacterial cell.
Design_Cells/ Shutterstock

Pharmaceuticals

Antibiotic resistance: scientists are reengineering viruses to cure bacterial infections

Manal Mohammed & Andrew Millard 21 Jan 2020

Pharmaceuticals

We are using computer models to fight drug resistance

Ozlem Tastan Bishop 13 Dec 2019

Admire Dube, associate professor of pharmacy, University of the Western Cape

Tuberculosis

Using nanomedicine to fight TB

Nicklaus Kruger 6 Dec 2019

A.G. Sanders with penicillin extraction equipment. Image reproduced with permission of the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, Author provided

Pharmaceuticals

Big Pharma has failed: the antibiotic pipeline needs to be taken under public ownership

Claas Kirchhelle, Adam Roberts & Andrew Singer 20 Nov 2019

Africa is home to 92% of malaria cases and 93% of malaria deaths. Shutterstock

Malaria

Collaboration pushes frontiers of anti-malaria drug regimes

Kelly Chibale & Richard Gordon 19 Nov 2019

TB is still a leading cause of death around the world. Sanjay Baid/EPA-EFE

Tuberculosis

We are gaining against TB but knowledge gaps remain

Emily Wong, Al Leslie & Mohlopheni Jackson Marakalala 11 Nov 2019

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

Grant to fund child-friendly TB treatments

Tuberculosis

Grant to fund child-friendly TB treatments

22 Oct 2019

Screen grabs from the ad campaign.

Advertising

#OrchidsandOnions: MSF campaign is just the medicine

Brendan Seery 24 Sep 2019

Air travel spreads infections globally, but health advice from inflight magazines can limit that

Travel

Air travel spreads infections globally, but health advice from inflight magazines can limit that

Ramon Zenel Shaban and Cristina Sotomayor-Castillo 19 Jul 2019

Antimicrobials are frequently used on farms in developing countries to promote animal growth. ©

Food Security

The scourge of antibiotics in animal feed

Aisling Irwin 11 Jul 2019

Image source: Getty/Gallo

Public Health

Hospital-acquired infections in SA hospitals are on the rise, especially in children

11 Jun 2019

Mycobacterium tuberculosis under the microscope.

Tuberculosis

SU researchers study resistance to 'protect' new TB drug

3 Jun 2019