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Funding red flag for SA’s disease control
The overall funding required to keep HIV, TB, and sexually transmitted infections, (STI’s) contained in South Africa will be short by R7,2 billion...
Chris Bateman
Jul 27, 2023
Back-roads and burnout – empathy in strange places…
Much has been written and researched on stress and burnout among healthcare professionals, with the most common advice being to take immediate...
Chris Bateman
Jul 25, 2023
Most potent HIV prevention weapons, abstinence aside…
While oral pre-HIV-exposure prophylaxis, (PrEP), is hugely effective, a full 48% of its users in sub-Saharan Africa discontinue their medication...
Chris Bateman
Jul 19, 2023
HIV epidemic control: the 40-year quest for a successful vaccine continues
While constructing an antibody-mediated HIV vaccine was ‘probably the hardest task in the virological world,’ the scientific architecture of its...
Chris Bateman
Jun 27, 2023
National Aids Conference: Spotlight back on HIV/TB – at last
As the world ‘looked away’ during the Covid pandemic and South Africa lost focus on HIV prevention, thousands of youths became HIV infected while the...
Chris Bateman
Jun 22, 2023
SA’s health-spend fails to translate: Dr Anuschka Coovadiaost
Despite historically spending double what low-income countries do on health as a percentage of GDP, (8,5% versus 4,5%), South Africans’ life...
Chris Bateman
May 29, 2023
BHF Conference: Covid deepened SA’s mental health crisis to a national crisis
Cassey Chambers, SADAG’S Operations Director unpacked the state of the mental health crisis in South Africa at the 22nd annual Board of Healthcare...
Chris Bateman
May 19, 2023
Caring for the dying – hope as medicine
Hope is medicine and hugely bolsters the quality of life for patients facing their own imminent demise, a scientific study by a top Durban oncologist...
Chris Bateman
May 12, 2023
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