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 | NOKULUNGA MAJOLA Health services are stretched thin by widespread violent protests that have erupted in KwaZulu-Natal...read |
|  | | Almost 75% of the approximately 400,986 babies born with sickle cell disease (SCD) globally per year are found in Africa...read |
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 | ISSUED BY BIZCOMMUNITY.COM Inviting your nominations of inspiring women to be featured in our exclusive August Women's Month interview series... Read |
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 | Africa recorded a 43% jump in Covid-19 deaths last week as infections and hospital admissions have risen and countries face shortages of oxygen and intensive-care beds... Read |
 | Namibia received a boost on Friday with the arrival of 250,000 Sinopharm doses bought from China, after its Covid-19 inoculation programme was halted by a lack of vaccines... Read |
 | ISSUED BY NORTH-WEST UNIVERSITY (NWU) The North-West University's (NWU's) researchers and innovators are working towards solutions to effectively destroy viruses, bacteria and fungi, including the coronavirus, on a large scale... Read |
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 | JANTINA DE VRIES & FRANÇOISE BAYLIS In July 2021, the World Health Organisation's Expert Advisory Committee on Developing Global Standards for Governance and Oversight of Human Genome Editing released two reports... Read |
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 | DKMS Africa has secured over R2m through its state patient support programme to facilitate access to transplantation for eight paediatric patients... Read |
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 | SISIPHO SKWEYIYA At an emergency Covid-19 ward run by a charity in southern Johannesburg, medics wheel gasping patients to their beds, rush from room to room with oxygen cylinders and pat the back of someone in the grip of a coughing fit... Read |
 | Vaccines are very much top of mind at the moment as the world races to beat the Covid-19 pandemic, but there are many other preventable diseases and deaths that can be avoided if adults are vaccinated... Read |
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 | Botswana has begun work on its first iron ore mine, a senior government official said on Tuesday, as the country seeks rapid diversification from diamond mining... Read |
 | The AfCFTA will create one of the largest free trade areas in the world, connecting 55 countries in Africa with a combined GDP valued at $3.4tn... Read |
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 | Workers affected by the Covid-19 lockdown regulations since March 2021 will once again be able to claim from the Covid-19 Ters... Read |
 | The Automobile Association also advises motorists to avoid unnecessary journeys and to buy no more fuel than necessary... Read |
 | PRINCE CHARLES Keeping people in poverty is expensive, as we have seen spectacularly these past few days. The thin balance holding this country from exploding... Read |
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