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National Malaria Guidelines for Treatment

The guidelines on the treatment of malaria in South Africa aim to facilitate effective, appropriate and timeous treatment of malaria. Read more...

Malaria Information Kit

National Guidelines for Malaria Treatment (2018) Malaria Risk Map (December 2018) Guidelines for the Prevention of Malaria (Jan 2019) Addendum to the South...

Laboratory diagnosis of Listeria

Laboratory diagnosis of Listeria

Plague factsheet

Plaque information sheet

NICD PhD student wins’ best student poster at Wits Research Day

The National Institutes for Communicable Diseases (NICD) congratulates Ntando Phaahla, a PhD student working in the NICD’s Centre for HIV and STI, for having...

Meningoccocal Disease

Meningococcal Diseases FAQs_2017 SAJID_Recommendations for Meningococcal Vaccine in SA 2017 SMeiring Guidelines for the management, prevention and control of meningococcal diseases in South Africa (2011)  

Professor Lucille Blumberg recieves the SAMRC Special Award

The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) congratulates Professor Lucille Blumberg on her South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) Special Award which recognises her...

Protecting your family and pets against rabies

Rabies is a serious disease caused by a virus mostly transmitted to humans by domestic dogs. The virus infects the brain and nervous system,...

Dr Charissa Mynhardt grabs best Scientific Poster Presentation

The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) lauds Dr Charissa Mynhardt for her sterling research abstract presentation that won the prize for best Scientific...