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CSIR And NHLS Join Forces: Building A National Resource For Increasing Quality Of...

The full blood count (FBC) is one of the most commonly performed diagnostic test in the initial diagnosis and subsequent management of patients in...

Ebola Travel Advisory

TRAVEL ADVISORY AND DEFINITION OF ESSENTIAL TRAVEL Pretoria, 13 September 2014 As a follow up to the SADC Health meeting held in Johannesburg, South Africa...

Ebola: Deployment Of Field Laboratory To West Africa

DEPLOYMENT OF FIELD LABORATORY TO WEST AFRICA The National Institute for Communicable Diseases, a Division in the NHLS deployed a specialist team in response to...

Update On The Patient Admitted At Charlotte Maxeke Hospital

                                                       MEDIA STATEMENT To: Editors & Health Journalists Issued by: Ministry of Health & NICD Date: August 18, 2014 Time: 14:45 Update on the Patient admitted at Charlotte Maxeke...

SADC EBOLA Statement

An extra ordinary meeting of the SADC ministers of Health on the Ebola outbreak was held yesterday, in Johannesburg. Please see the communiqué below...

No Confirmed Cases Of Ebola Virus Disease In South Africa

Johannesburg, July 30, 2014 - There is an ongoing outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in West Africa, with over 1 200 cases and 670...

Launch Of The 2012 South African National HIV Prevalence, Incidence And Behaviour Survey Report

01 April 2014 The report is the fourth one its kind and provides an important insights into the state of the HIV Epidemic in South...

Getting To Zero TB – Tackling HIV And TB Drug Resistance

19 March 2014 Press Release   Getting to zero TB - tackling HIV and TB drug resistance World TB Day 2014   World TB Day, on the 24 March, is...

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Potent HIV antibodies fast tracks the development of an AIDS vaccine The discovery of how a woman’s body responded to her HIV infection by...

South African HIV/AIDS Trial Scoops USAID Award

The Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA) 004 Tenofovir gel trial was today announced the winner of the United...