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Nick Walker's master plan to cure HIV
[Jessica Tennant] Last year's SingularityU Southern Africa Global Impact Challenge winner, Nick Walker, chats about his stem cell bank concept that could cure HIV... read
How to fund a failing health system
How to fund a failing health system
[TAWANDA KAROMBO and ADRI KOTZE] Could Zimbabwe's new Health Development Fund rescue the country's cash-strapped clinics and hospitals? read
BevSA wants more time on sugar tax
BevSA wants more time on sugar tax
BevSA is asking for more time for a total dietary study to be done on obesity before the new tax on SSBs is introduced... read
Emergency Procedures
Satellifes at night.
Purposefully recolouring township satellites with Grey

Leigh Andrews

Lack of visible house numbers in the townships often results in unnecessary delays in emergency treatment and sometimes, death. Grey Africa's CCO Fran Luckin and head of design Kean Hartnady explain how Grey's Satellifes campaign is saving lives... read
Infectious Diseases
Vaccines to be used against antibiotic-resistant typhoid
Vaccines to be used against antibiotic-resistant typhoid

Lilian Namagembe

Uganda, Malawi and Zimbabwe are the three high-burden African countries selected to be the first to benefit from a typhoid conjugate vaccine.... read
Source: World Health Organisation
Brazil's birth rate not affected by Zika
Last year's outbreak of the mosquito-borne Zika virus in Brazil did not lower the country's birth rates, despite warnings from the government... read
Oncology
Professor Carol Benn
Breast cancer treatment is no longer cut and dried
High-profile media campaigns have made most South African women aware that breast cancer poses a very real risk... read
Pharmaceuticals
Adcock opts to snap up Virtual Logistics
Adcock opts to snap up Virtual Logistics

Alistair Anderson

Adcock Ingram has acquired private group Virtual Logistics, a national and cross-border fine-distribution firm, as it looks to expand its distribution capacity... read
Public Health
Catastrophic antibiotic threat from food
Catastrophic antibiotic threat from food

Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Tan Zhai Gen

Much of the antibiotics given to livestock and poultry passes un-degraded through their urine and faeces, directly affecting food... read
Dr Margaret Chan, WHO director-general
WHO launches medication safety plan
The Global Patient Safety Challenge on Medication Safety aims to address the weaknesses in health systems that lead to medication errors... read
Dispute brews over plan to hire Tanzanian doctors
Dispute brews over plan to hire Tanzanian doctors

Verah Okeyo and Elizabeth Merab

A stalemate is brewing between the counties' health management teams, governors and the national government over a plan to employ Tanzanian doctors... read
Source: World Health Organisation
Nigeria needs $1.1bn for meningitis vaccine programme

Damilola Oyedele

The sum of $1.1bn is currently required to vaccinate 22m people in the five Nigerian states affected by the outbreak of the type C cerebro-spinal meningitis... read
International
Future Digital Awards technology, innovation winners
Future Digital Awards technology, innovation winners
HAMPSHIRE, UK: The Future Digital Awards have been awarded to companies that Juniper believes have made significant progress within their sector... read
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Business
Facebook helps SMMEs to unlock potential, grow
Facebook helps SMMEs to unlock potential, grow
According to Abi Williams, Facebook's sales manager for small and medium businesses in the Middle East, Turkey and Africa, small businesses are the engine of economic growth in South Africa... read
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