A team of researchers at the University of Witwatersrand are developing a system of medicine delivery at the nano scale to help fight TB.

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For two years, Xolani Mngomezulu from Indlovu Village in Mtubatuba, in northern KwaZulu-Natal, took at least eight pills a day and endured painful kanamycin injections after being diagnosed with multi ...

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The Minister of Health, Dr Aaron Motsoaledi, called on South Africans, especially Members of Parliament (MPs), to vigorously ...

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The titles of more than 700 multi-year NIH grants have been changed this year, according to an analysis by Jeremy Berg, a ...

The South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) has registered the drug Lenacapavir, which the World Health ...

A groundbreaking study led by South African and Indonesian researchers will investigate if people with asymptomatic TB can still transmit the disease.