CAPE TOWN, South Africa – Goodman Macanda’s life revolved around taking medicines. Every morning he took ten pills. Then he went to the community clinic in Khayelitsha and waited while nurses searched for a place that wasn’t already swollen, so they could give him yet another in a six-month-long series of daily painful injections. After returning […]
HIV
Innovative approaches can help find vulnerable young women in need of HIV prevention services The following is a guest post by Michelle Li, MS, and Quinn […]
Tuberculosis
In the six weeks before South Africa responded its first diagnoses of COVID-19 with the start of physical distancing measures, more than 47,000 people on average […]
Research & Development
With 2018 data showing highest incidence acute flaccid myelitis since monitoring began, officials say awareness, recognition of rare life threatening condition will be crucial to early […]
Policy
By Karen Carvajal, M.D. Over the course of human history we have come a long way in our fight against the threat of infectious diseases and, […]