As scientists scramble to learn more about it, infectious disease expert Professor Salim Abdool Karim says current vaccines are effective against the new variant
The vast majority of hospital admissions in Gauteng are of unvaccinated people, data from the National Institute for Communicable Diseases shows
Safety, side-effects and the jargon-filled scientific information explained for those who have concerns about getting vaccinated
Our system is still not conducive for dealing with community transmissions. Harsher restrictions and constant lockdowns are not the answer
Governments need to provide the modelling and data informing the strategy to control the spread of the novel coronavirus
The government’s professed reliance on science to justify its response to the pandemic reveals both its overconfidence and its insecurities about getting citizens to cooperate
South Africa needs clear communication between departments and with the public, particularly now during the Covid-19 pandemic
With little money to respond to Covid-19, the government is looking at other sources of funding
The government’s plan to deal with the pandemic and its aftermath includes managing ‘the challenges of bereavement’ that will accompany large-scale deaths
The disease has a unique trajectory in South Africa, thanks to the rapid move to declare a national disaster and institute a lockdown. But this has only bought time to prepare…
Read South Africa’s Covid-19 response as presented by Professor Salim Abdool Karim on Monday
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A gel researchers once hailed as a breakthrough in the prevention of HIV transmission among women, has been shown to be ineffective.
Revolutionary new vaginal treatment could avert 800 000 Aids deaths over the next 20 years.
One of the key anti-TB drugs, rifampicin, increases the speed at which one class of ARVs is broken down by the body.
People with a genetic variation that slows down HIV may also be causing a mutation to the Aids syndrome that makes it less potent if transmitted to others, South African…
