South Africa is one of the few malaria-endemic countries in Africa that did not see a major upsurge in malaria cases caused by COVID-related disruptions.
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National Institute for Communicable Diseases
The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) is the national public health insitute for South Africa. It provides reference microbiology,virology,epidemiology, surveillance and public health research to support the government’s response to communicable disease threats.
The NICD is organised into functional Centres, bringing together expertise in both reference microbiology and epidemiology to enable an intergrated public health response to communicable disease threats.
The NICD primarily supports the programmes of the National and Provincial Departments of Health. As well as national support, the NICD also provides public health services such as collaborating laboratory or regional reference laboratory functions for global programmes of the World Health Organisation (WHO)
The NICD has established co-operatives agreements with partner national public health institutions such as the Center for Disease Control (CDC) and NIH/NIAID of the USA, the European Centre for Disease Control (ECDC) and the Health Protection Agency (HPA) of the United Kingdom, as well as other internationally recognised public health insitutions.
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A pesar de la pandemia, las disparidades y las estructuras de poder desiguales en la salud mundial siguen intactas. Será difícil afrontar nuevos desafíos globales, como el calentamiento global, si no cambia el sistema.
Apa yang kita sebut nyamuk sebenarnya adalah 3500 jenis serangga yang berbeda, dan mereka semua berperilaku berbeda.
It’s a huge cause for concern that, two years into the pandemic, the disparities and unequal power structures in global health are still intact.
Instead of focusing on new variant-specific vaccines, the emphasis should be on deploying existing vaccines as fast as possible to as many people.
This is not an alternative to traditional disease surveillance, but a complementary tool.
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What we call mosquitoes are actually 3500 different types of insects, and they all behave differently.
At this stage, we cannot say anything about the severity of cases with Omicron - either in primary or reinfections.
Like the coronavirus causing the current pandemic, both the malaria parasite and mosquito vector are developing ways to avoid control.
Une nouvelle lignée de SARS-CoV-2, B.1.1.529, a été identifiée. Baptisée Omicron par l’OMS, qui l’a catégorisé « préoccupant », ce variant a un profil génétique très différent des précédents.
There’s a new COVID lineage called B.1.1.529. It has a genetic profile very different from other circulating variants
The South African Malaria Control Programme is one of the few on the continent that is entirely funded by government. The stable source of funding has allowed for steady malaria control interventions.
Countries like the United States, Denmark, Germany, Spain and Switzerland have already vaccinated many millions of adolescents and their experience will guide countries that follow suit.
The successful development of an effective vaccine against the deadliest form of malaria that is most common in sub-Saharan Africa is indeed a major achievement.
De nombreux pays africains ont acquis beaucoup d'xpériences en matière de gestion de épidémies de fièvres hémorragiques virales qu'ils peuvent appliquer à celle du virus à Marburg.
Making vaccines in South Africa by building on the foundation that’s been laid is possible. But only if substantial and sustained investment in human resources and infrastructure becomes a reality.
Many African countries are experienced in managing outbreaks of viral haemorrhagic fevers and many of the lessons learnt from the Ebola can be applied to the Marburg outbreak.
Communities with high vaccine coverage rates are likely to see lower case numbers, hospitalisations and deaths related to COVID-19 compared to those with poor vaccine coverage.
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Senior Pathologist, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Co-head of the Centre for Respiratory Disease and Meningitis, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Senior Medical Scientist, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Senior medical epidemiologist, Centre for Tuberculosis, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Epidemiologist, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Principal Medical Scientist and Head of Laboratory for Antimalarial Resistance Monitoring and Malaria Operational Research, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Principal Medical Scientist at National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Medical Epidemiologist, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Head: Centre for Enteric Diseases, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Epidemiologist, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Medical epidemiologist: Centre for Enteric Diseases,, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Data Manager, Center for Respiratory Diseases and Meningitis, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Principal Pathologist, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Medical scientist, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Senior scientist, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
