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Lateral flow tests are now part of UK life, with billions spent on test kits. Has it been worth it?

‘We need to stop making people prove their poverty in this country — the facts prove poverty… there is an indignity about having to prove poverty that we must steer away from,’ says a social development expert. ‘We need to stop making people prove their poverty in this country — the...

Prof Alex Van Den Heever of Wits School Of Governance speaks to Ray White about the latest Covid-19 variant and the UK decision.

Oni demons, parasites, flesh-eating giants, vampires, zombies – global pop culture is rife with monsters. The popularity of this genre is on the increase in our pandemic-riven world. Parasites particularly are ubiquitous, yet their depiction in popular culture has not attracted much attention. An ‘infectant’ that lives in or on another living organism, a parasite transforms

A new study from UNSW Sydney has shown that by growing electronic components directly onto a semiconductor block it is possible to avoid messy, noisy oxidation scattering that slows and impedes electronic operation.

Experts warn that South Africa’s National Health Insurance plan will not work 28 May 2021 5:07 PM Share This: Wits School of Governance professor Alex van den Heever says the proposal goes against the principles of the health system. In a webinar hosted by Free Market Foundation, a group of experts have disapproved and warned that the National Health Insurance (NHI) will not be able to deliver improved health outcomes for the majority of citizens and this may damage existing systems put in...

The onset of winter and slow roll-out of the vaccine programme also likely to contribute to a third surge says expert.

He said medical personnel often contract Covid-19 while working. “They must self-isolate and are off work for a period even if they do not develop severe illness. That remains a perpetual problem. “This coincides with the period where government chose to freeze posts in many areas of the public health system,” Van den Heever said. He said government reduced the size of the workforce at a time when the country needed a lot of additional nurses and doctors. When asked where officials shou...

No strategy to deal with second wave - Wits prof 12 January 2021 - 07:39 The Gauteng government does not have reserve strategy to deal with the second wave of Covid-19 infections that has seen some hospitals overwhelmed by rising numbers of patients in need of critical care. This is the view of Prof Alex van den Heever, chair of the Wits School of Governance’s social security systems and management studies. Van den Heever said the modelling the provincial government relied on could n...