DEPLOYMENT OF FIELD LABORATORY TO WEST AFRICA The National Institute for Communicable Diseases, a Division in the NHLS deployed a specialist team in response to the ongoing Ebola Virus Disease Outbreak to Sierra Leone on 16th August 2014. The deployment is in response to an extended call from the World Health Organization, Global Outbreak Alert […]
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MEDIA STATEMENT To: Editors & Health Journalists Issued by: Ministry of Health & NICD Date: August 18, 2014 Time: 14:45 Update on the Patient admitted at Charlotte Maxeke Hospital The Ministry of Health and the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) would like to update the public about the condition of the patient
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An extra ordinary meeting of the SADC ministers of Health on the Ebola outbreak was held yesterday, in Johannesburg. Please see the communiqué below for the outcomes. SADC EBOLA statement
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Johannesburg, July 30, 2014 – There is an ongoing outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in West Africa, with over 1 200 cases and 670 deaths reported to date in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. Fortunately, there have been no confirmed cases of EVD in South Africa associated with this outbreak. The Ministry of Health of
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01 April 2014 The report is the fourth one its kind and provides an important insights into the state of the HIV Epidemic in South Africa since 2002. The survey also provides important information on the effectiveness of interventions such as the roll out of the antiretroviral therapy. Another key indicator in understanding the epidemic
19 March 2014 Press Release Getting to zero TB – tackling HIV and TB drug resistance World TB Day 2014 World TB Day, on the 24 March, is an opportunity to raise awareness about the burden of tuberculosis (TB) worldwide and the status of TB prevention and control efforts. If we hope to
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Potent HIV antibodies fast tracks the development of an AIDS vaccine The discovery of how a woman’s body responded to her HIV infection by making potent antibodies (called broadly neutralising antibodies, because they are able to kill multiple strains of HIV from across the world), was reported today by a consortium of AIDS researchers jointly
The Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA) 004 Tenofovir gel trial was today announced the winner of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Science and Technology Pioneers Prize. The prize, which is being inaugurated this year, recognises excellence in the use of science and technology to solve development
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South Africans awoke to the devastating news that our leader and father of the nation is no more. I was in Cape Town, when I received the news at midnight. I got up early on Friday and looked out of my hotel window and noticed people walking on the street going to work. While everything
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Madiba, Mthembu, Sophitsho, Ngqolomsila, Lala ngoxolo Tata! Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, the father of the nation, has died on December 5 2013 at the age of 95. It is with great sadness that the Nation awoke to the news of our fallen hero, freedom fighter, peace maker, unifier, first President of a democratic South Africa. While
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