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Clinical trials examining broadly neutralising antibodies could hold critical information to protect high-risk communities from HIV. The trials are currently underway in Durban at the Centre for the Aids Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA).

Tuberculosis: Elri Voigt unpacks the latest findings on TB and asks local experts in South Africa for their responses.

In 2021 an estimated 304 000 people in South Africa fell ill with tuberculosis and 56 000 died from the disease, according to new World Health Organisation figures.

In March 2020, SA implemented a nationwide lockdown on all its citizens. At the heart of this radical new policy was Prof Salim Abdool Karim.

The Japanese government will award the prestigious fourth Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize to professors Salim Abdool Karim and his wife Quarraisha Abdool Karim for their rigorous work on HIV and Covid-19.

This week, South Africa recorded its first case of monkeypox. We asked experts and consulted WHO and NICD documents to answer our top 10 questions about the disease.

The recent Covid-19 pandemic has placed public health back in the global spotlight and has also served as a reminder that science is not undertaken in an ivory tower.

On Thursday morning, Health Minister Joe Phaahla announced that a 30-year-old man from Gauteng with no recent travel history had become the first person in South Africa to be diagnosed with monkeypox.

Chasing quality, not clicks

Africa has science innovation and leadership capital. If there is a problem, local research is surely the best path toward finding a solution.