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Congolese medical workers dressed in personal protective equipment (PPE) carry children tested and cleared of Ebola from Saint Nicholas orphanage, at the Centre Medical Evangelique (CME) within the secured Ebola response zone, as aid agencies intensify efforts to contain the Ebola outbreak involving the Bundibugyo strain, in Hoho commune of Bunia town, Ituri province, Democratic Republic of Congo. Image credit: Reuters/Gradel Muyisa Mumbere/File Photo

Infectious Diseases

Fastest-spreading Ebola outbreak to record over 4,000 cases

Clement Bonnerot and Jessica Donati 6 Aug 2026

Travellers walk at the Charlotte Douglas International Airport in Charlotte, North Carolina, US. Image credit: Reuters/Kaylee Greenlee/File Photo

Infectious Diseases

Canada bans DRC arrivals; South Africa adds Ebola questionnaire

21 Jul 2026

Image credit: Cora Pursley

Pharmaceuticals

"Not only waistlines, but lifespans” — Dr Tommie Smook on GLP-1s

6 Oct 2025

Source: Supplied. Logandran Naidoo, national medical director for AHF South Africa.

Healthcare

The Aids Healthcare Foundation rolls out in Mpumalanga

20 Nov 2024

Unlocking Africa’s agricultural power to ensure food security for all

Agriculture

Unlocking Africa’s agricultural power to ensure food security for all

3 Sep 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

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

Tuberculosis

$94m injected into TB fight

25 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

Tuberculosis

Tackle TB, prevent future pandemics, report finds

22 Mar 2023

Luca Sola to exhibit at MSF 'People On The Move' photo exhibition

Art

Luca Sola to exhibit at MSF 'People On The Move' photo exhibition

Evan-Lee Courie 14 Mar 2023

Source: Twitter @PaulMashatile

HIV/AIDS

New deputy president to launch national strategic plan for HIV, TB and STIs

7 Mar 2023

Source: Reuters. Uganda health minister Jane Ruth Aceng addresses the media after receiving a shipment of 1,200 doses for Ebola vaccine candidates set to be used in a clinical trial at the National Medical Stores in Entebbe, Uganda, 8 December, 2022.

Public Health

Uganda declares itself Ebola-free after swiftly turning tide on outbreak

11 Jan 2023

Noncommunicable diseases

Hypertension, diabetes, stroke: they kill more people than infectious diseases and should get a Global Fund

Kaushik Ramaiya 30 Dec 2022

Healthcare

Modern contraceptives on the rise across sub-Saharan Africa

16 Nov 2022

Healthcare

The challenges and possibilities inherent in turning Africa into a research and development hub

Dr Tadesse T Mekonen 17 Oct 2022

Source: Supplied. African scientists receiving training in genomics surveillance at the KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform (KRISP), South Africa.

Covid-19

Covid-19 variants in Africa were introduced from abroad, study finds

16 Sep 2022

Source: Supplied.

Healthcare

The Institut Pasteur de Dakar's new alliance bolsters West Africa's epidemic preparedness

7 Sep 2022

Source: Supplied.

Public Health

Influenza cases on the rise in South Africa

9 Jun 2022

Emergency Medicine

African solutions to African problems: Reframing science innovation

Quarraisha Abdool Karim, PhD 9 Jun 2022

Supplied. Stephanie Aboujaoude, senior area director of Marketing & Communications Middle East & Africa for Radisson Hotel Group, says the business of marketing has drastically changed

Marketing

A new frontier for marketing

Stephanie Aboujaoude 29 Apr 2022

Prof Refilwe Phaswana-Mafuya

Higher Education

UJ to host its first ever SAMRC Extramural Research Unit

7 Apr 2022

Source: iStock.

Healthcare

Deputy President Mabuza appoints new chairperson to the Sanac Trust Board

6 Apr 2022

Healthcare

WHO Pandemic Treaty: The makings of a New World Order?

Katja Hamilton 8 Mar 2022

Source: Supplied. ©Gates Archive/Sylvain Cherkaoui.

Covid-19

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Wellcome pledge $300m to combat Covid-19

21 Jan 2022

PMG challenges businesses to help combat GBV

OOH

PMG challenges businesses to help combat GBV

Issued by Provantage 17 Dec 2021

Public Health

Eastern Cape dog-rabies outbreak is "disastrous"

9 Dec 2021

Women empowerment key in fight against HIV and Aids

Inclusion, Empowerment & Social Justice

Women empowerment key in fight against HIV and Aids

2 Dec 2021

Source: ©tashatuvango

Tuberculosis

TB: an orphan disease?

Danette Breitenbach 1 Oct 2021

Source: ©mirco1

Covid-19

Genomic surveillance key in Africa's Covid-19 fight

14 Sep 2021

How virus detectives trace the origins of an outbreak - and why it's so tricky

Medical Research

How virus detectives trace the origins of an outbreak - and why it's so tricky

Marilyn J Roossinck 15 Jun 2021

Covid-19

Vaccinations will open up the country and our economy

4 Jun 2021

Image source: Getty/Gallo

Health & Safety

Tackling HIV in the mining industry - new guidance from DME

Nivaani Moodley, Kalene Watson & Shane Johnson 13 May 2021

Kenya and South Africa have a high exposure to disinformation. shutterstock

Covid-19

Social media users in Kenya and South Africa trust science, but still share Covid-19 hoaxes

Herman Wasserman & Dani Madrid-Morales 7 Apr 2021

A new way of processing cowpeas brings affordable nutrition to children

Sustainable Farming

A new way of processing cowpeas brings affordable nutrition to children

Nokuthula Vilakati 15 Mar 2021

“We saw patients dying for avoidable reasons. They were dying because masks that came loose were not being replaced,” says MSF Covid-19 intervention nursing activities manager, Caroline Masunda. Chris Allan

Covid-19

Small things can save lives: coping with Covid-19 in resource-scarce hospitals

Gilles van Cutsem 2 Mar 2021

Covid-19

How the coronavirus mutates and what this means for the future of Covid-19

Ed Rybicki, Anna-Lise Williamson, Don Cowan & Stephanie G Burton 17 Feb 2021

Muizenberg beach is eerily quiet on a hot summer’s day, 29 December 2020. If we want to save lives and life to go back to normal we need to embrace vaccines.

Covid-19

Here's how to fight anti-vaccine propaganda

GroundUp Editors 13 Jan 2021

Water solutions to aid the most vulnerable in Kenya

Infrastructure & Utilities

Water solutions to aid the most vulnerable in Kenya

Simon Thomas 31 Dec 2020

Misinformation on social media fuels vaccine hesitancy: a global study shows the link

Social Media

Misinformation on social media fuels vaccine hesitancy: a global study shows the link

28 Dec 2020

Here's where efforts to end HIV in eastern and southern Africa must focus

HIV/AIDS

Here's where efforts to end HIV in eastern and southern Africa must focus

Kaymarlin Govender, Janet Seeley, Mitzy Gafos, Roselyn Kanyemba 24 Dec 2020

A substantial proportion of people may refuse or delay taking a Covid-19 vaccine. Shutterstock

Public Health

Misinformation on social media fuels vaccine hesitancy: a global study shows the link

Steven Lloyd Wilson & Charles Shey Wiysonge 4 Dec 2020

People relying on HIV prevention, care and treatment services have become even more vulnerable because of COVID-19. Foto24/Gallo Images/Getty Images

HIV/AIDS

Why it's important to keep diagnosing and treating HIV during the Covid-19 pandemic

Kathryn L Hopkins & Glenda Gray 30 Nov 2020

Zuneid Yousuf, CEO, African Green Resources

Covid-19

There may be a Covid-19 vaccine, but what about Africa?

Zuneid Yousuf 30 Nov 2020

#PulpNonFiction: It's all narrative

#PulpNonFiction

#PulpNonFiction: It's all narrative

Bronwyn Williams 23 Nov 2020

Covid-19: Examining theories for Africa's low death rates

Covid-19

Covid-19: Examining theories for Africa's low death rates

Kevin Mars & Moses Alobo 8 Oct 2020