NEWS
20 April 2020
Government is struggling to meet its testing targets. But there is progress.
By Elsabé Brits
6 April 2020
TB test repurposed for Covid-19 will massively increase capacity
27 January 2020
No cases detected in the country, but National Institute for Communicable Diseases has put systems in place
30 October 2019
Results from a programme run in urban informal settlements in eThekwini look promising
3 October 2019
The hospital treats 3,000 new oncology patients a year
SCIENCE
20 September 2019
While it’s too soon to be confident, a vaccine originally tested in Thailand has shown promising early results
26 August 2019
South Africa’s only tissue bank has been empty the past two months
8 August 2019
“We are doing battleground medicine,” says minister
11 July 2019
Cases of diarrhoea and malnutrition have dropped
10 July 2019
Local man develops resistance to new TB medicine despite good adherence
30 April 2019
This follows an alarming South African study which shows that doctors and nurses are prescribing antibiotics unnecessarily
8 April 2019
But public health expert expresses scepticism
1 April 2019
TB killed 1.6 million people worldwide in 2017
5 March 2019
MeerKAT is tuning into thousands of “radio channels” at a time
15 February 2019
R1 billion Biomedical Research Institute will be ready by 2022
7 February 2019
Pfizer expects to have testosterone injections in the country by the end of month
