A third person has died after receiving the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine in South Africa. But an immunisation expert says that it is highly unlikely that SA will record a higher number of deaths from the vaccine than other…
Dhirisha Naidoo remembers the “look of HIV” vividly. She saw it on a daily basis when she was a nurse at a mission hospital in Durban just out of college in 2004. “People were usually very thin, skin and bone,…
The ageing population, lack of knowledge, change in lifestyles, high HIV burden, excessive use of alcohol, smoking and high costs to receive care could contribute to the rise of cancer deaths in South Africa. This is according to the Director…