Injection much more effective than daily pills in preventing infection in women
By Elsabé Brits
10 November 2020
University fire engineering research shows that fire-resistant paint does not work
By Elsabé Brits
12 October 2020
80% of babies born with the disease are in sub-Saharan Africa
By Elsabé Brits
2 September 2020
Government is struggling to meet its testing targets. But there is progress.
By Elsabé Brits
20 April 2020
TB test repurposed for Covid-19 will massively increase capacity
By Elsabé Brits
6 April 2020
No cases detected in the country, but National Institute for Communicable Diseases has put systems in place
By Elsabé Brits
27 January 2020
Results from a programme run in urban informal settlements in eThekwini look promising
By Elsabé Brits
30 October 2019
The hospital treats 3,000 new oncology patients a year
By Elsabé Brits
3 October 2019
While it’s too soon to be confident, a vaccine originally tested in Thailand has shown promising early results
By Elsabé Brits
20 September 2019
South Africa’s only tissue bank has been empty the past two months
By Elsabé Brits
26 August 2019
“We are doing battleground medicine,” says minister
By Elsabé Brits
8 August 2019
Cases of diarrhoea and malnutrition have dropped
By Elsabé Brits
11 July 2019
Local man develops resistance to new TB medicine despite good adherence
By Elsabé Brits
10 July 2019
This follows an alarming South African study which shows that doctors and nurses are prescribing antibiotics unnecessarily
By Elsabé Brits
30 April 2019
But public health expert expresses scepticism
By Elsabé Brits
8 April 2019
TB killed 1.6 million people worldwide in 2017
By Elsabé Brits
1 April 2019