Model of new TB vaccine shows its potential impact and value in South Africa and India
Two years of battling COVID-19 has been bad news for tuberculosis (TB) programmes. Respiratory clinicians and researchers have had their...
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COVID vaccines: African countries need to fix their distribution chains
Sub-Saharan Africa still has too few vaccines for too few people. Delivering more inoculations to the region deserves top priority....
The COVIDSafe app was designed to help contact tracers. We crunched the numbers to see what really happened
Early in the pandemic, the COVIDSafe app was designed as a tool to improve contact tracing. And a multimedia campaign...
South Africa undertakes its most important census since the end of apartheid
Statistics South Africa has embarked on its once-a-decade process to count all people in the country - including non-citizens. Census...
Fish on acid? Microdosing zebrafish with LSD shows its potential benefits for humans
Microdosing — regularly ingesting small amounts of a psychedelic substance — has gone mainstream. Believed to increase productivity, spark creativity...
Cervical cancer is a disease of inequity: here’s how to save 60 million lives
The World Health Organization estimates that cancer a leading cause of death around the world. The cancer burden is on...
From walking to cycling, how we get around a city is a gender equality issue – new research
In urban societies around the world, there are gendered differences in how people get to where they need to go....
COVID will soon be endemic. This doesn’t mean it’s harmless or we give up, just that it’s part of life
We have experienced many bumps in the road since 2020 and one would have to be extremely brave to predict...
Driverless cars won’t be good for the environment if they lead to more auto use
For years, self-driving car technology has remained tantalizingly just beyond the horizon. Bold predictions notwithstanding, fully automated vehicles still haven’t...
Drink problems at work got much worse during the pandemic – here’s how employers can tackle them
The Downing Street “partygate” scandal has shown how alcohol use can be embedded in the everyday workplace. The internal investigation...
