People with intellectual disability have a right to sexuality – but their families have concerns
Many South Africans living with intellectual disability don’t have opportunities to be part of community life. They may lack the...
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58% of human infectious diseases can be worsened by climate change – we scoured 77,000 studies to map the pathways
Climate change can exacerbate a full 58% of the infectious diseases that humans come in contact with worldwide, from common...
How does monkeypox spread? An epidemiologist explains why it isn’t an STI and what counts as close contact
Monkeypox is caused by a virus that, despite periodic outbreaks, is not thought to spread easily from person to person...
Monkeypox is now a national public health emergency in the U.S. – an epidemiologist explains what this means
After news broke that the U.S. declared monkeypox to be a public health emergency, friends and family started asking me,...
Monkeypox vaccines: A virologist answers 6 questions about how they work, who can get them and how well they prevent infection
Monkeypox isn’t going to be the next COVID-19. But with the outbreak having bloomed to thousands of infections, with cases...
Australia secures 450,000 new monkeypox vaccines. What are they and who can have them?
Health Minister Mark Butler today announced Australia had secured 450,000 doses of a third-generation monkeypox vaccine, 22,000 of which will...
Five historical summer drinks to keep you cool
We all have our favourite summer cold drinks, from fruity British favourites like a cup of thirst-quenching Pimms or a...
Remembering Frantz Fanon – six great reads
Frantz Fanon, the Martinique-born psychiatrist, philosopher, revolutionary and leading pan-Africanist, would have been 97 on 20 July 2022. He left...
Fish in a major South African river are full of microplastics
We are living in the plastic age. Plastics are literally everywhere: clothes, furniture, computers, phones and more contain plastic materials....
Do we care enough about COVID?
The COVID-19 pandemic has already generated its own mythology. In Britain, they talk of the “myth of the blitz” –...
