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Violence in SA | Over 100 pharmacies looted enca.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from enca.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Riots latest: Fury as looters 'steal COVID-19 vaccines' from pharmacies thesouthafrican.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thesouthafrican.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
About one in 10 of the more than 7 million people living with HIV in South Africa are not aware that they have the virus. One way to ensure that more people are diagnosed quicker is to make HIV self-testing kits more widely available – particularly to people who may not otherwise opt to have an HIV test done at a facility. The World Health Organisation (WHO) defines HIV self-testing as the process whereby an individual collects their own specimen (blood or oral fluid), performs HIV testing using an HIV rapid diagnostic test and interprets the result themselves, either assisted or unassisted. According to professor Francois Venter, deputy executive director of the Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute, and director of Ezintsha – a group of South African academics and health professionals – each test is packaged with a set of easy-to-use instructions which dictate the step-by-step process that needs to be followed to obtain an accurate result. ....
Disappointing that only 1.6m registered for vaccine, plans for walk-ins need to be resolved - B4SA news24.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from news24.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
A quick guide to the vaccine programme, the procedures involved and how it is supposed to work 19 May 2021 - 20:18 Tamar Kahn UPDATED 20 May 2021 - 11:51 Johannesburg healthworkers queue for a Covid-19 vaccine outside the Charlotte Maxeke Hospital. Picture: SUNDAY TIMES/ALAISTER RUSSEL The government began providing Covid-19 vaccines to the public on May 17, after the Sisonke study for healthcare workers came to an end. The big question now on everyone’s mind is: “When will I get my shot?” Here’s what we know so far. Who is currently eligible? Healthcare workers and people over the age of 60. Healthcare workers are being vaccinated in what is known as phase 1b of the rollout; people over the age of 60 are the first stage of phase 2. Phase 1a was the Sisonke study. ....