Last week, from Monday, the Eastern Cape health department ramped up its vaccination drive in an effort to meet its target of vaccinating 4,5 million people.
Despite the challenges they have encountered when it comes to blood collection, since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, South African National Blood Service (SANBS) said, on World Blood Donor Day, that the country now has a stable stock of blood in their banks, but more willing blood donors are still needed.
Researchers have been trying to develop an HIV vaccine for about four decades without success. However, the successful development of a COVID-19 vaccine could provide lessons for scientists.
The needs of people living with albinism are not taken seriously including by healthcare providers writes Innocentia Mgijima Konopi and Aldridge Munyoro this Albinism Awareness Day.
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