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.
The South African Sign Language is offered as a school subject from pre-school until the final year of high school since 2015.
GettyImages
What can be done to turn the tide on the alarmingly high staff turnover among higher education institutions in South Africa.
A pop-up site in Johannesburg aimed at encouraging mini-bus taxi operators and commuters to vaccinate on site.
Luba Lesolle/Gallo Images via Getty Images
Between May 2020 and early September 2021, over a quarter of a million more people have died from natural causes than was predicted for that time period.
The solution to the country’s energy problems doesn’t belong to Eskom and the government alone.
shutterstock
Sexually transmitted infections and bacterial vaginosis can provide ideal conditions for HIV infection in women. A new test aims to detect these conditions even when women don’t show symptoms.
A protest against racial injustice and police violence in Spain.
Josep LAGO / AFP) (Photo by JOSEP LAGO/AFP
A transnational movement for racial justice requires a sensitivity to the specific, local conditions in which race and racism touch the everyday lives of people.
Big Food companies producing ulta-processed foods are using a range of key market and political practices to increase their reach, particularly in developing countries.
A photo taken in August 2015 of disinfected gloves and boots at an Ebola treatment centre in Conakry, Guinea. Lessons are being drawn to manage the Marburg virus.
Cellou Binani/AFP via Getty Images
Michelle J. Groome, National Institute for Communicable Diseases and Janusz Paweska, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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.
One tissue donation can save or improve the lives of more than 65 people. So it’s important to unpack and address the reasons South Africans are reluctant to register as tissue and organ donors.
Money cowries were used for thousands of years as currency across the Indo-Pacific world but introduced into Atlantic commercial networks relatively late.
Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng presiding at South Africa’s Constitutional Court in 2017.
Gulshan Khan/AFP via Getty Images
The Chief Justice needs to have a single-minded and unyielding commitment to constitutional democracy and constitutional values, including social justice.
Central banking was given to technocrats whose job is to make the difficult decisions. But there are parameters. And within these, central bankers must act independently, without fear or favour.
The 144 mental health care users were failed from the get go.
Alet Pretorius/Gallo Images/Getty Images
An immediate police investigation into the deaths was prevented because the cause of death was indicated as ‘natural causes’ on their death certificates.
Dean Faculty of Health Sciences and Professor of Vaccinology at University of the Witwatersrand; and Director of the SAMRC Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Analytics Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand