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‘When we allow these cases to go unsolved and unpunished, we not only fail the victims, but also send a message that gender-based violence and femicide are tolerated. ’ - Professor Naeemah Abrahams of the SAMRC.
The SAMRC and Thermo Fisher Scientific have partnered to create a Centre of Excellence in Pretoria, aimed at enhancing molecular biology education and training for graduates across Africa.
A disturbing increase in intimate partner femicide and a decline in convictions was highlighted.
The twice-yearly injectable HIV-1 capsid inhibitor, lenacapavir, demonstrated 100% efficacy (the power to produce a desired result) for the investigational use of HIV prevention in cisgender women.
THE words of renowned epidemiologist and virologist Professor Salim Abdool Karim during a talk on campus had struck a chord with final year medical student Mohamed Hoosen Suleman, encouraging him to chart a course of his own in public medicine.
A heavily pregnant mother who went into labour before her flight was fortunate to have been surrounded by medical professionals who helped deliver her baby at the airport.
A pregnant woman was fortunate to be surrounded by a team of medical professionals aboard a flight from Durban to Cape Town, who helped deliver her baby.
Professor Quarraisha Abdool Karim, South African infectious diseases epidemiologist was elected to the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Authorities from the US and Singapore are still investigating the reason a container vessel crashed into a bridge in Baltimore, Maryland.
In a world first, surgeons from Massachusetts General Hospital in the US successfully transplanted a genetically modified pig kidney into a 62-year-old patient.
Gambian authorities are planning to lift a controversial ban on female genital mutilation, which refers to the partial or total removal of the female external genitalia.
Days after France announced that it enshrined the right to an abortion in its Constitution, Prime Minister Emmanuel Macron says he wants to write it into European Union's basic law as well.
Argentinian President Javier Milei told a group of high school students at a Catholic school in Buenos Aires that abortion amounts to murder.
Shortly after France announced it enshrined abortions into its Constitution, Spain’s far left wants to follow suit and implement a similar landmark legislation aimed at empowering women.
France has voted to introduce the right to an abortion in its Constitution, making them the first country to offer protection for pregnancy terminations in its laws.
German parliament voted to legalise the possession and controlled cultivation of cannabis starting in April, despite fierce objections from the opposition and medical associations.
Patients in South Korea were turned away on Tuesday as hundreds of trainee doctors stopped working to protest against medical training reforms.
Safina Namukwaya, a 70-year-old woman from Uganda recently defied commonly held perceptions to give birth to twins at a fertility centre in the capital city of Kampala.
SAMRC gets multi million grant for HIV vaccine
Very little protective laws for the disabled in SA was raised as one of many concerns from the disabled sector.
South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) president and chief executive Professor Glenda Gray said they had a rich scientific portfolio in approaches but their scientific challenge was to put these different approaches into a coherent vaccine regimen.
Africa’s scientists and medical fraternity will have their own information sharing platform from July.
A Cape Town-based medical company has announced the launch of the country’s first Covid-19 antigen self-test with a companion mobile phone application, HealthPulse TestNow.
South Africa now has its first Covid-19 antigen self-test with companion mobile phone application.
Generators an air pollution concern