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Here's what South Africans searched for on Google in 2022

7 Dec 2022

Circular Economy & Waste Management

Clean drinking water: Discharging raw sewage into rivers and dams is a national security issue

Professor Anthony Turton 28 Mar 2022

Agriculture

Vegetable farmers in urban Ghana don't worry much about food safety - but they should

Kabila Abass 12 Aug 2020

Medical Research

Antibiotic resistance: cheap diagnostic test could be a saviour

Lara Marks & Ankur Mutreja 11 Aug 2020

CSI & Philanthropy

AECOM's Kevina Kakembo lends a hand in Uganda WeDev water-sanitation project

25 Feb 2020

Camp beds set up for travelers returning to Germany from China, who will be isolated for two weeks to make sure they don’t have coronavirus.
YANN SCHREIBER/AFP via Getty Images

Infectious Diseases

Quarantines have tried to keep out disease for thousands of years

Leslie S. Leighton 5 Feb 2020

A.G. Sanders with penicillin extraction equipment. Image reproduced with permission of the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, Author provided

Pharmaceuticals

Big Pharma has failed: the antibiotic pipeline needs to be taken under public ownership

Claas Kirchhelle, Adam Roberts & Andrew Singer 20 Nov 2019

Unicef carers at a creche for children whose parents are being treated for Ebola. Building health infrastructure is crucial to stopping the next outbreak. Epa/ Hugh Kinsella Cunningham

Public Health

Investing in health systems is the only way to stop the next Ebola outbreak

Emma Glennon & Freya Jephcott 22 Oct 2019

Fruit bats can pass Ebola on to humans. Jeffrey Paul Wade/Shutterstock

Infectious Diseases

Ebola outbreaks may be more common than we think

14 Jun 2019

Food Security

Why food safety in Africa's informal markets must be driven by consumers

Arie Havelaar and Ashagrie Zewdu Woldegiorgis 10 Jun 2019

A woman receiving an oral cholera vaccine in Beira, Mozambique. Celeste Mac-Arthur

Public Health

Cyclone Idai is over - but its health effects will be felt for a long time

Kerrigan McCarthy & Lucille Blumberg 15 Apr 2019

Infrastructure & Utilities

How water treatment in South Africa can eradicate water-related diseases

Issued by WEC Projects 18 Jan 2019

Infectious Diseases

Red Cross steps in to curb cholera and typhoid in Zim

14 Sep 2018

Public Health

Zimbabwean cholera death toll rises to 16

Nyemudzai Kakore & Munyaradzi Masiiwa 10 Sep 2018

Public Health

Ebola outbreak in DRC: Are we better prepared this time?

Connor Bamford 14 May 2018

Health & Welfare

How Cape Town's water crisis could make people sick

Bob Mash, Hassan Mahomed and Shrikant Peters 15 Feb 2018

Infrastructure & Utilities

Not all spring water in Cape Town is safe

Tanya Farber 7 Feb 2018

Food, Water & Energy Security

How Nigeria is wasting its rich water resources

Nelson Odume and Andrew Slaughter 6 Sep 2017

Travel

Indian business trip: Some crucial points to keep in mind while visiting India

Issued by Docs.Zone 22 Aug 2017

Infectious Diseases

Vaccines to be used against antibiotic-resistant typhoid

Lilian Namagembe 7 Apr 2017

ESG

DR Congo's street food mushrooms as crisis grows

15 Feb 2017

Research

Recipients of the Ideas Matter Fellowship Program announced

29 Dec 2016

Marketing

Extreme innovation meets behavioural economics

Leslie Pascaud 23 Jun 2016

Environment & Natural Resources

MSC Cruises committed to sustainable development of Inhaca archipelago

15 Apr 2016

Public Health

Africa has highest burden of foodborne diseases per population

4 Dec 2015

Events & Conferencing

Successful exhibition in Kenya for BioTech Africa

11 Sep 2015

Mining Resources

Nile Basin Countries advised to invest in African minerals

14 Apr 2015

Health & Welfare

LifeStraw community project flows upstream to northern Natal

17 Nov 2014

Infectious Diseases

Precautions for travellers going to Ebola areas

19 Aug 2014

Public Health

Visiting Brazil - stay healthy

27 May 2014

Exhibitions & Events

International Congress on Infectious Diseases to present in Cape Town

11 Feb 2014

Medical Research

Yale researchers uncover typhoid's lethal secret

Bill Hathaway 16 Jul 2013

Tourism

Travelling to malaria-risk areas

Brian Berkman 2 May 2013

Science

Saving the world a drop at a time

Bhekumuzi Mdakane 10 Jan 2013

Infectious Diseases

Yale researchers discover why typhoid fever pathogen targets only humans

Bill Hathaway 16 Nov 2012

Infectious Diseases

Scientists develop humanised mouse model to study typhoid fever

23 Sep 2010

OOH

Dirty Water project cleans up

28 Jul 2010

Infectious Diseases

Zimbabwe: Typhoid cases rise to 45

12 Mar 2010

Public Health

Travellers' trips' health tips

8 Dec 2009

Branding

A healthy brand is a healthy business

Bayo Adekanmbi 14 Nov 2008

Pharmaceuticals

Travel vaccines - plan in advance

Issued by Jenni Newman Public Relations 18 Oct 2008

Infectious Diseases

National Immunisation Awareness Week - adult immunisation

Issued by Magna Carta 4 Aug 2008

Public Health

GLOBAL: LifeStraw water purifier grows into family size

25 Feb 2008

World AIDS Day

Angola: To tell or not to tell, that is the tricky question

10 Dec 2007

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