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 | SHABIR MADHI There isn't enough clinical research being done in Africa. Less than 2.5% of all clinical trials in the world are done on the continent. This is why South Africa's involvement in one of the Covid-19 vaccine trials is so important... read |
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 | TONY SINGLETON A rise in Covid-19 infections is inevitable as the lockdown eases and people head back to work and school. It is therefore important to understand exactly how medical schemes will cover testing, hospitalisation and treatment...read |
|  | STEVEN FRIEDMAN Covid-19 infections are rising sharply in South Africa - and Latin America. This is fitting: South Africa resembles the countries of South America more than those of its home continent...read |
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| |  | ISSUED BY BORDERLESS ACCESS Borderless Access conducted a survey to understand perceptions around medical travel consultations and what advice people will seek from medical professionals, once travel restrictions open up... Read |  | STEVEN ROBINS During a recent run in Newlands Forest, Cape Town, I encountered a few runners and walkers without masks. When I asked one of them where his mask was, he replied: "I'm running outdoors and if you don't like, stay at home."... Read |  | Usually Dr Roslyn Lutaaya would be managing acute and chronic adult and child illnesses and providing basic antenatal care at Albow Gardens Clinic in Milnerton. But since the start of the pandemic, she works almost exclusively on screening, testing and treating patients... Read |  | TIMOTHY AMUKELE & MUSTAFA BARBHUIYA Covid-19 continues to infect millions of people as the death toll mounts. There is currently no cure which means that controlling this disease requires a multi-pronged approach... Read |  | ISSUED BY SA SHARES The national lockdown to curb the spread of Covid-19 took everyone by surprise. After the government declared a State of Disaster in mid-March, most businesses had only a few days to either implement Covid-19 protocols or close their doors for an unknown period of time... Read |
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| |  | SHAN RADCLIFFE As doctors, nurses and other hospital staff work tirelessly on the frontlines of the war against Covid-19, R&D teams and legal experts band together to aid the fight in their own way as they offer their skills on the National Ventilator Project... Read |  | SINDY PETERS Results from the recently released National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS) - Coronavirus Rapid Mobile (NIDS-CRAM) Survey reveal an exploding hunger crisis in South Africa... Read |  | While there has always been an imbalance of professional healthcare workers and services between urban and rural communities, the Covid-19 pandemic has intensified this problem... Read |
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 | NESRI PADAYATCHI & KOGIE NAIDOO When the Covid-19 pandemic began to spread rapidly across the globe, scientists expressed concern that people living with HIV would be particularly severely affected... Read |
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 | SALOME MASWIME, KEVIN MARSH & RIFAT ATUN The higher education sector globally has been disrupted by the Covid-19 pandemic. Academics have been discussing various aspects of the disruptions in a series of webinars organised by the University of Cape Town... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY LIVEWELL A dementia diagnosis affects the whole family, not just the patient; family members of a Livewell resident speak out about what they have experienced... Read |
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 | Africa has experienced a decade of positive socio-economic growth, supported by a continued progress of electricity access that finally outpaced population growth between 2014 and 2018... Read |
 | Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) have decreased across Africa in the first half of 2020 in terms of both volume and value, with some exceptions. Going forward, dark clouds remain over the M&A market in Africa in the short-term, but recent developments brighten the continent's prospects for medium-term recovery... Read |
 | NATACHA TOFIELD-PASCHE Lake Kivu lies on the border between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda. It's almost the size of Mauritius and has a maximum depth of 480 metres. Lake Kivu also stores huge amounts of methane gas which Rwanda extracting to produce electricity... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY NIELSEN The nature of South African shopping trips has shifted during the Covid-19 lockdown from an initial focus on bulk, stock up shopping to everyday needs shopping... Read |
 | EVAN-LEE COURIE A new South African tech startup has launched to help small business owners by changing the HR and payroll game... Read |
 | With load shedding being reintroduced this winter, many individuals and small businesses are considering investing in an inverter that will kick in when the electricity goes off... Read |
 | Retrenchment is a word that can strike fear into the hearts of even the most seasoned veterans of the corporate world... Read |
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