

Landmark silicosis case kicks off
Johannesburg - More than 40 advocates have gathered in the Johannesburg High Court today to hear class certification arguments lodged by...


Guinea Ring Vaccination trial extended to Sierra Leone to vaccinate contacts of new Ebola case
Freetown, Sierra Leone: Detection of a new case of Ebola virus disease in Kambia, Sierra Leone after the country had marked almost three...


Ebola's lessons: How WHO mishandled the crisis
EDITOR’S NOTE: Understanding the disastrous international response to last year’s Ebola pandemic in West Africa is important to ensure...


The Ebola vaccine we dared to dream of is here
For more than a year and a half, three of the world’s poorest countries have struggled against the most devastating Ebola epidemic in...


Modelling the effect of vaccines on cholera transmission
Cholera is a diarrhoeal disease that is caused by an intestinal bacterium, Vibrio cholerae. Recently an outbreak of cholera in Haiti...


HIV grows despite treatment, study finds
HIV can continue to grow in patients who are thought to be responding well to treatment, according to research by the University of...


Ground to dust: fracking, silicosis and the politics of public health
Let me tell you an outrageous yet all-too-common tale of how public health science is politicized to serve powerful interests. There are...
