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South Africa's health officials and experts are scrambling for solutions as a sudden 90-day suspension of US PEPFAR funding threatens the country's HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention efforts.
Professors Salim Abdool Karim and his wife Quarraisha Abdool Karim, are internationally respected for their work on stopping deadly infections such as HIV/AIDS, TB and the coronavirus.
Through decades of pioneering work on fighting the spread of infectious diseases such as HIV, South African public health power couple Quarraisha and Salim Abdool Karim are credited with saving thousands of lives.
The total number of positive mpox cases recorded in the country since May is 25, including three deaths.
Infectious diseases epidemiologist, Professor Salim Abdool Karim said the current dual healthcare system is basically a form of medical care apartheid in South Africa.
Professor Quarraisha Abdool Karim, South African infectious diseases epidemiologist was elected to the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Almost 1 000 women from two sites in KwaZulu-Natal and one in Zambia have been enrolled in the study.
World-renowned tuberculosis (TB) expert Professor Kogie Naidoo was awarded the prestigious Outstanding Female Scientist Prize presented by the European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP), a research programme of the EU.
Dr Naidoo received the award for her seminal scientific contributions to the treatment of patients with tuberculosis and HIV co-infection that has shaped local and international treatment guidelines.
Professor Salim Abdool Karim will be among an 8-speaker panel of experts at the TEDxDurban Official 2023 Conference in uMhlanga later this month. A variety of subjects will be covered under the theme “Pause: Infinite Reflections”.
OPINION: Prof Jerry Coovadia's resistance to HIV denialism arose from witnessing the preventable HIV-related deaths and new infections of infants, children, women, and men, writes Zackie Achmat.
‘Local government failures led to breakdown of infrastructure’. This was according to world-renowned health expert Professor Salim Abdool Karim when speaking exclusively with the Daily News on the sidelines while having an honorary doctorate conferred on him from the Durban University of Technology.
Meanwhile, the Faculty of Health Sciences at the Durban University of Technology (DUT) will award an honorary Doctor of Philosophy degree in health sciences to Professor Salim Abdool Karim later this month.
Her parents, professors Quarraisha Abdool Karim and Salim Abdool Karim, obtained their PhDs at the then-University of Natal. Leading in HIV and AIDS research, they also contributed heavily to the country’s Covid-19 policies and research globally.
A third person has been ‘functionally cured’ of HIV, but South Africa’s HIV/Aids expert, Professor Salim Abdool Karim says there is no medical definition yet for the cure
The country is facing another wave of Covid-19 infections, showing that the pandemic
This Women’s Month, The Saturday Star will be profiling some of the nation’s leading ladies.
The Government of Japan has awarded the Fourth Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize in the Medical Research category to South Africa’s Dr Salim S Abdool Karim and his wife Dr Quarraisha Abdool Karim.
The renowned professor has called for science and other expertise to drive the development agenda in the country and improve the socio-economic conditions of the people.
South Africa's huge wave of Omicron cases appears to be subsiding just as quickly as it grew in the weeks after the new coronavirus variant had been identified.
Data from their Coronavirus Research Centre’s dashboard revealed that since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2019, there have been about 264 million cases and 5 237 087 deaths.
There is no need for panic or overreaction following the identification of Omicron, the latest Covid-19 variant, said leading SA epidemiologist, Professor Salim Abdool Karim.
Healthcare providers are making preparations to deal with what is effectively a fourth wave - including by ensuring there are enough paediatric hospital beds to deal with the possible increase in young children's hospital admissions.
SCIENTISTS and experts that presented at the briefing said the Health department may have to focus on its preparedness for paediatric hospital beds as more children were infected.
Existing COVID-19 vaccines are probably effective at preventing severe disease and hospitalisation from the newly identified Omicron variant, a top South African infectious disease expert said on Monday.