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Public Health

Healthcare, poverty alleviation at the heart of Bill Gates' final philanthropic push

Maroefah Smith 12 Jun 2025

A health employee gives a malaria injection to a child during the official ceremony for the launch of the malaria vaccination campaign for children aged between zero and eleven months in Abobo a district of Abidjan, Ivory Coast, 15 July 2024. Reuters/Luc Gnago/File Photo

Malaria

Malaria cases up again in 2023, African children worst hit, WHO reports

Jennifer Rigby 17 Dec 2024

Malaria - we’ve barely scratched the surface

Malaria

Malaria - we’ve barely scratched the surface

Issued by Irvine Partners 30 Apr 2024

Source: Life Healthcare.

Healthcare

New TB skin test could offer cheaper and easier way to detect the disease

Yvette Naudé 5 Apr 2024

Malaria

Cape Verde is the third African country to eliminate malaria: here’s how

Tiaan de Jager and Taneshka Kruger 5 Feb 2024

Healthcare

From fatal allergies to heart attacks and cholera - the devastating health effects of global warming in Africa

Lenore Manderson 7 Sep 2023

Source: Reuters.A boy covers his face from smoke as a health worker fumigates against mosquitoes in a residential area, as Sri Lanka tries to curb dengue fever across the island in Colombo, Sri Lanka 12 July, 2023.

Public Health

WHO warns of dengue risk as global warming pushes cases near historic highs

Emma Farge 21 Jul 2023

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Circular Economy & Waste Management

Kenya banned plastic bags 6 years ago, but they are still in use - what went wrong

Jane Mutheu Mutune 9 May 2023

Source: Reuters.

Public Health

Ghana first to approve Oxford's malaria vaccine

13 Apr 2023

UP-led study finds aloe plant could impede life cycle of malaria-carrying parasite

Malaria

UP-led study finds aloe plant could impede life cycle of malaria-carrying parasite

Issued by University of Pretoria 14 Feb 2023

Source: Reuters.

Public Health

BioNTech starts human trial to test malaria vaccine

28 Dec 2022

Tips on planning your next vacation in the Philippines

Travel

Tips on planning your next vacation in the Philippines

Craig Lebrau, Issued by Lebrau Press 4 Nov 2022

The Santam Women of the Future Awards finalists

Events & Conferencing

Meet the finalists of the Santam Women of the Future Awards

17 Aug 2022

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Cannes Lions

Cannes Lions 2022 Grand Prix winners round up

30 Jun 2022

Malaria

The warning lights are on for malaria medicines in Africa

Fredros Okumu and Deus Ishengoma 14 Dec 2021

Source: ©Igor Daniel

Healthcare

Breakthrough malaria vaccine offers to reinvigorate the fight against the disease

Eunice Anyango Owino 11 Oct 2021

Global Citizen Live announces broadcast performances

Music

Global Citizen Live announces broadcast performances

Issued by OnPoint PR 17 Sep 2021

Source: ©The Global Fund. A march through Agogo town in Ghana to educate citizens on malaria

HIV/AIDS

Covid-19's adverse impact on HIV, TB and malaria programmes

8 Sep 2021

Matsi Kolobe on founding a female, Black-owned digital agency and the human side to entrepreneurship

Advertising

Matsi Kolobe on founding a female, Black-owned digital agency and the human side to entrepreneurship

Issued by The Innovator Trust 3 Sep 2021

We're a step closer to figuring out why mosquitoes bite some people and not others

Malaria

We're a step closer to figuring out why mosquitoes bite some people and not others

Madelien Wooding & Yvette Naude 19 May 2021

The world spends billions on treated mosquito nets each year. Irene Abdou / Alamy Stock Photo

Malaria

New malaria vaccine proves highly effective - and Covid shows how quickly it could be deployed

Adrian Hill 26 Apr 2021

Beware: Conditions are ideal for an outbreak of Rift Valley Fever

Infectious Diseases

Beware: Conditions are ideal for an outbreak of Rift Valley Fever

Issued by North-West University (NWU) 5 Mar 2021

Sun, sun, sun here we come

Online Media

Sun, sun, sun here we come

Issued by OnPoint PR 8 Feb 2021

Stop Rift Valley fever in its tracks

Agro-processing

Stop Rift Valley fever in its tracks

14 Jan 2021

Mosquitoes and parasites do not respect country borders. CDC/James Gathan

Malaria

As the malaria season begins in southern Africa, Covid-19 complicates the picture

Jaishree Raman & Shüné Oliver 6 Nov 2020

Malaria

Malaria parasites in Nigeria are genetically diverse: a danger but also a useful tool

Segun Isaac Oyedeji 20 Oct 2020

#SUSASummit: Anand Murthy speaks on radical affordable housing

Digital

#SUSASummit: Anand Murthy speaks on radical affordable housing

16 Oct 2020

Anzisha Prize 2020 reveals finalists

Entrepreneurship

Anzisha Prize 2020 reveals finalists

17 Sep 2020

5 ways to help SA's hospitality industry weather the Covid-storm

Hospitality

5 ways to help SA's hospitality industry weather the Covid-storm

30 Jul 2020

Secure meat-hungry food systems to prevent next pandemic

Food Security

Secure meat-hungry food systems to prevent next pandemic

Fatima Arkin 24 Jul 2020

What is shaping culture? Biomimicry - design and nature in unison

Research

What is shaping culture? Biomimicry - design and nature in unison

Brett Rogers 20 Jul 2020

Coconut oil production threatens five times more species than palm oil - new findings

Sustainable Farming

Coconut oil production threatens five times more species than palm oil - new findings

Erik Meijaard 7 Jul 2020

Anopheles Stephensi, Sem. Photo By BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Malaria

Breakthrough: microbe found to block the transmission of malaria

Jeremy Herren 9 Jun 2020

Mass burials in the Brazilian state of Amazonas. Raphael Alves

Covid-19

Coronavirus: there is no global south exceptionalism

David Hunter 20 May 2020

#LockdownAdvice: Extend ways in which you provide value

Entrepreneurship

#LockdownAdvice: Extend ways in which you provide value

Allon Raiz 18 May 2020

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The One Club for Creativity

The One Show 2020 announces full shortlist

14 Apr 2020

Manu Prakash. Image source: Design Indaba newsletter.

Design Indaba

#DI2020: Empathy and empowerment hand-in-hand at Design Indaba 25

Terry Levin 2 Mar 2020

The spread of false information can have a devastating impact on affected communities. Woohae Cho/Getty Images

Infectious Diseases

False information fuels fear during disease outbreaks: there is an antidote

Marina Joubert 10 Feb 2020

Mosquito eggs can remain viable for years even in dry conditions and hatch after heavy persistent rains. Shutterstock

Infectious Diseases

Heavy rains put Kenya at risk of mosquito-borne diseases

Eunice Anyango Owino 23 Jan 2020

What to expect from the inaugural Stellenbosch Triennale

Art

What to expect from the inaugural Stellenbosch Triennale

20 Jan 2020

Africa is home to 92% of malaria cases and 93% of malaria deaths. Shutterstock

Malaria

Collaboration pushes frontiers of anti-malaria drug regimes

Kelly Chibale & Richard Gordon 19 Nov 2019

Africa University.

Research

Innovation hub to promote research, protect IP

31 Oct 2019

Image: Medicines for Malaria

Malaria

Climate change could increase the threat of malaria in Central Africa

23 Oct 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

A female Aedes albopictus mosquito feeding on a human host. James Gathany/CDC

Public Health

Ethiopia must do more to stop recurring chikungunya outbreaks

Eunice Anyango Owino 16 Sep 2019

Dr Duncan MacFadyen, head of conservation research at Oppenheimer Generations

Environment & Natural Resources

Why we need African science for African sustainability

Duncan MacFadyen 6 Sep 2019

Champions of Science Africa Innovation Challenge announced

Awards

Champions of Science Africa Innovation Challenge announced

5 Sep 2019

Image credit: Loeries.

Loeries Creative Week

#Loeries2019: ALL THE WINNERS!

24 Aug 2019