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Durban University of Technology will confer an honorary doctorate to epidemiologist Professor Salim Abdool Karim during its last autumn graduation ceremony on Wednesday. 



The Health Department has confirmed that Professor Salim Abdool Karim has stepped down from the Ministerial Advisory Committee (MAC) on COVID-19, with effect from 23 March 2021.

Although commercial entities can contribute positively to health and society there is growing evidence that the products and practices of some commercial actors—notably the largest transnational corporations—are responsible for escalating rates of avoidable ill health, planetary damage, and social and health inequity; these problems are increasingly referred to as the commercial determinants of health. The climate emergency, the non-communicable disease epidemic, and that just four industry ...

UK based cardiologist and anti-vaxxer Aseem Malhotra's visit to South Africa has raised public safety concerns among clinicians, scientists, and public health specialists in South Africa and beyond. 

Jay Naidoo writes on the devastating impact of the pandemic response that continues to challenge humanity's freedom of speech.

2023 TWAS-Abdool Karim Award in Biological Sciences for women scientists in Low-Income African Countries (USD5,000 cash award) Application Deadline: 18 April,

Deadline: 18-Apr-23 The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) is inviting nominations for the Abdool Karim Award from all its members as well as science

We need a combination of new approaches to reduce age disparate sex. And we need new technologies to protect young women.

Epidemiologist and former head of the Covid-19 ministerial advisory committee Prof Salim Abdool Karim says there is no reason to be concerned after the discovery of the new and highly infectious Covid-19 sub-variant XBB.1.5.

From science to engineering, writing to social sciences, here are the Columbians who received awards recently.