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WHO workers mobilised 4.7 tonnes of essential medical supplies and emergency kits to support the affected regions in response to the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo from the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) in Nairobi, Kenya. Image credit: World Health Organisation/Handout via Reuters

Infectious Diseases

Gates Foundation commits $15m to Ebola response as WHO suspects 900 cases

5 hours

A health worker takes the temperature of a woman passing through the Kanyaruchinya checkpoint, as authorities and aid agencies intensify efforts to contain a new Ebola outbreak involving the Bundibugyo strain, in the northern entry into the city of Goma, North Kivu province, the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Image credit: Reuters/Arlette Bashizi

Infectious Diseases

Stellies leads efforts to curb Ebola outbreak as WHO warns of escalation

21 May 2026

A Congolese health worker checks the temperature to screen a traveller at the Grande Barrier border following confirmation of an Ebola outbreak involving the Bundibugyo strain, at the border crossing point between Congo and Rwanda, in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo. Image credit: Reuters/Arlette Bashizi

Infectious Diseases

Cross-border Ebola threat sparks Africa CDC alert as SA urged vigilance

19 May 2026

Workers stand guard at the gate of the Kibuli Muslim Hospital, where a Congolese man died of the Ebola Bundibugyo virus in Kibuli suburb of Kampala, Uganda. Image credit: Reuters/Abubaker Lubowa

Infectious Diseases

Ebola outbreak in DRC and Uganda triggers WHO emergency alert

Disha Mishra and Akanksha Khushi 18 May 2026

A person in protective clothing walks next to an ambulance during an evacuation operation of suspected hantavirus patients, following an outbreak on the cruise ship MV Hondius, in Praia, Cape Verde. Image credit: Reuters/Danilson Sequeira

Infectious Diseases

South Africa traces 62 contacts after fatal Andes hantavirus found

7 May 2026

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Dentistry

Why digital dentistry is the new frontier in South African oral health

Maroefah Smith 13 Apr 2026

Image credit: Towfiqu barbhuiya on Unsplash

Public Health

Botswana's medical supply chain collapse triggers public health emergency

26 Aug 2025

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Surgical Procedures

Operation Smile to perform 25 surgeries in 2 days

24 Jul 2025

Covid-19

Trump administration begins controversial $11.4bn Covid-19 funding withdrawal

26 Mar 2025

Healthcare

Oral health is more than smiles: South Africa’s public health emergency

27 Mar 2025

How excessive government controls harm employees and processes

Accounting & Auditing

How excessive government controls harm employees and processes

Walter Bhengu, Issued by SAICA 6 Dec 2024

Source: Reuters.

Infectious Diseases

Congo launches its first mpox vaccination campaign

Djaffar Al Katanty 8 Oct 2024

Source: Reuters.

Public Health

Congo brings forward launch of mpox vaccine drive

Sonia Rolley 17 Sep 2024

Source: Reuters.

Public Health

WHO clears Bavarian Nordic's vaccine for mpox, sets up access scheme

Manas Mishra and Mrinmay Dey 16 Sep 2024

Source: Reuters.

Public Health

Morocco reports first Mpox case

13 Sep 2024

Source: National Institute for Communicable Diseases.

Public Health

Mpox: No global lockdowns, emphasis on increased education, vigilance, airport screening and monitoring

Katja Hamilton 24 Aug 2024

Public Health

Health Department: Mpox under control, stay vigilant

21 Aug 2024

SADC Tourism Alliance: Southern Africa remains low-risk for mpox

Travel

SADC Tourism Alliance: Southern Africa remains low-risk for mpox

21 Aug 2024

Source: National Institute for Communicable Diseases.

Public Health

Mpox outbreak in Africa was neglected – it could now turn into the next global pandemic

21 Aug 2024

Source: Reuters.

Public Health

Emergent to donate 50,000 vaccine doses to address mpox outbreak in Africa

20 Aug 2024

Healthcare

WHO declares mpox outbreaks in Africa a global health emergency

15 Aug 2024

Public Health

Can the UN impose sanctions on SA? You bet it can… and One Health may be the tipping point

Katja Hamilton 15 Mar 2024

Covid-19

Phaahla urges Brics nations to maintain vigilance against Covid-19

8 Aug 2023

Covid-19

CDC orders discard of 12.5 million doses of J&J Covid-19 vaccine

19 May 2023

Covid-19

Covid-19 global health emergency over, but pandemic not over - Health Dept

8 May 2023

Source: Access to Medicine Foundation.

Healthcare

Gas companies called to scale up access to medical oxygen

5 May 2023

Public Health

Consortium sparks debate over intellectual property of mRNA vaccines manufactured in SA

Katja Hamilton 21 Apr 2023

Source: Reuters.

Public Health

Vaccine-derived poliovirus detected in Burundi, Congo

Bhargav Acharya 20 Mar 2023

Source: Reuters.

Healthcare

Africa officials urge readiness for monkeypox vaccinations, fair access

30 Jun 2022

Source: REUTERS. A section of skin tissue, harvested from a lesion on the skin of a monkey, that had been infected with monkeypox virus, is seen at 50X magnification on day four of rash development in 1968. CDC/Handout via REUTERS

Public Health

WHO calls emergency meeting as monkeypox cases cross 100 in Europe

23 May 2022

Covid-19

Africa: the face of vaccine inequity

Katja Hamilton 19 Jan 2022

Doctors' mental health hard hit in face of financial stress

Mental health

Doctors' mental health hard hit in face of financial stress

Coenie Smith 22 Nov 2021

Source: ©Dmitry Kalinovsky

Covid-19

First Covid-19 oral antiviral medicine in submission stage

29 Oct 2021

Vaccine mandates are being debated all over the world. Brenton Geach/Gallo Images via Getty Images

Ethics & Medicolegal

Why Covid-19 vaccines should be mandatory in South Africa

Keymanthri Moodley 11 Aug 2021

A market place in Ghana’s capital Accra. Developing countries like Ghana risk being left behind in the race to secure Covid-19 vaccines. Christian Thompson/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

Covid-19

Dummy's guide to how trade rules affect access to Covid-19 vaccines

Caroline Southey 11 Jan 2021

The increasingly well-coordinated global anti-vaccine movement has repurposed itself to challenge the very reality of COVID-19. Hasan Esen/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

Covid-19

Covid-19: A global survey shows worrying signs of vaccine hesitancy

Scott C Ratzan, Agnes Binagwaho, Heidi Larson, Jeffrey V Lazarus, Kenneth Rabin & Lawrence O Gostin 29 Oct 2020

Cathay Pacific releases 2019 Sustainability Development Report

Aviation

Cathay Pacific releases 2019 Sustainability Development Report

13 Aug 2020

Research

Facebook publishes the Global State of Small Business Report

20 Jul 2020

A volunteer receives an injection from a medical worker during the country’s first human clinical trial for a potential vaccine against Covid-19 in Soweto, South Africa. Felix Dlangamandla/Beeld/Gallo Images via Getty Images

Covid-19

Covid-19 vaccine: the challenges of running a trial in the middle of a pandemic

Jeffrey Mphahlele 7 Jul 2020

Inclusion, Empowerment & Social Justice

Salesian Life Choices celebrates Cape Town's youth - from victims to victors

19 Jun 2020

Grootvlei, Snake Park, an impoverished suburb on the fringe of one of the biggest mine dumps in Soweto, Johannesburg. Poor people have been hit hardest by the fallout of Covid-19. Mujahid Safodien/AFP via Getty Images

Economy

Who has been hit hardest by South Africa's lockdown? We found some answers

Channing Arndt & Sherman Robinson 12 Jun 2020

Covid-19 recession cuts deep into automotive industry

Automotive

Covid-19 recession cuts deep into automotive industry

11 Jun 2020

Is your office space Covid-19 ready?

Office Property

Is your office space Covid-19 ready?

Bongani Nhlapo 3 Jun 2020

Lagos state officials disinfecting roads in the state. Shutterstock

Covid-19

Coronavirus: what Nigeria can do post lockdown

Doyin Ogunyemi 3 Jun 2020

Competition Tribunal penalises face mask producer

Competition Law

Competition Tribunal penalises face mask producer

2 Jun 2020

#LockdownLessons: We are only as strong as our most vulnerable

Inclusion, Empowerment & Social Justice

#LockdownLessons: We are only as strong as our most vulnerable

Sindy Peters 18 May 2020

Trump has long been disdainful of multilateral organisations. Stefani Reynolds / POOL /EPA

Covid-19

Explainer: what Donald Trump's funding cuts to WHO mean for the world

Adam Kamradt-Scott 16 Apr 2020

A vaccine must go through six crucial steps. PhotobyTawat/ Shutterstock

Covid-19

Coronavirus vaccine: Here are the steps it will need to go through during development

Samantha Vanderslott, Andrew Pollard & Tonia Thomas 1 Apr 2020

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Sustainable Farming

Rescuing Kenya's flower sector amid Covid-19

Nelson Maina 30 Mar 2020

South Africa joins Covid-19 treatment study

Covid-19

South Africa joins Covid-19 treatment study

30 Mar 2020