South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced that his country will return to stricter lockdown measures in the face of a sharp rise in COVID-19 cases By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press May 30, 2021, 8:21 PM • 4 min read Share to FacebookShare to TwitterEmail this article CAPE TOWN, South Africa — South African President… Read More: South Africa returns to stricter lockdown, virus ‘surging’ »
A cost-effectiveness analysis has found that injectable, long-lasting antiretroviral therapy (ART) would need to cost no more than $ 131 a year in order to be cost-effective if used for patients who are not fully virally suppressed in lower-income settings in regions like sub-Saharan Africa. The analysis found that injectable cabotegravir/rilpivirine would only reach the… Read More: Injectable HIV therapy would have to cost less than $131… »
Widely available ART in rural South Africa has led to dramatic decreases in AIDS-related mortality over the last few years. A new qualitative study has revealed that HIV is now seen as a ‘preferred’ chronic illness when compared to cancer, diabetes and hypertension. However, this research also questions whether these shifts have led to a… Read More: As AIDS recedes, HIV stigma evolves in rural South Africa »
The year 2020 will go down in history as one of the most challenging of our lifetime. Thinking back to January, none of us would have predicted the emergence of a pandemic-causing virus, let alone its devastating outcomes that have affected tens of millions of lives around the world so far. It has changed the… Read More: Healthcare IT News and MobiHealthNews expand into Europe, Middle East… »