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247 signals for Health · South Africa

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HealthCrisis🇺🇸United States 🇿🇦

South Africa

29d ago

Virginia has reported 77 measles cases in 2024, with a surge of more than 30 new infections in recent weeks concentrated around Buckingham County in Central Virginia. The majority of cases involve unvaccinated individuals, primarily infants and young children.

4.2/10·Virginia Mercury·Virginia, Virginia

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HealthUpdate🇿🇦South Africa44d ago

South African health regulators are addressing the growing problem of substandard and falsified medical products circulating in the country, including unregulated weight loss injections and unsafe pain tablets that pose risks to public health.

4.2/10·AllAfrica News

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HealthCrisis🇲🇽Mexico 🇿🇦South Africa24d ago

Protesters — who include searching mothers, teachers, retirees, healthcare workers, farmers, anti-gentrification activists and transportation workers — are expected to arrive at the stadium just as the Mexico vs. South Africa match is starting. The post At least 7 protest marches plan to descend on Mexico City Stadium during World Cup opener appeared first on Mexico News Daily

4.1/10·Mexico News Daily

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HealthCrisis🇿🇦South Africa28d ago

The director-general of the World Health Organisation (WHO) says there have been 220 suspected deaths in the current Ebola outbreak and that a delay in detecting cases meant responders are now “playing catch-up”.

4.1/10·News24 (South Africa)

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HealthCrisis🇿🇦South Africa45d ago

[allAfrica] Geneva - The World Health Organization (WHO) head said Tuesday that the situation is "deeply concerning" in the Democratic Republic of Congo due to a new species of Ebola for which there is no licensed vaccine or treatment, and that is believed to have killed 131 people.

4.1/10·AllAfrica (Latest Headlines)

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HealthUpdate🇳🇿New Zealand 🇿🇦South Africa57d ago

Six months out from the election, one party is dominating on the donation front. National amassed by far the biggest war chest of all the parties last year, with more than $6.2 million in donations received across 2025. According to the newly released Electoral Commission numbers, that total comprised 20,000 separate donations of under $5,000, topped off with 148 different donors supplying five grand or more.

4.1/10·The Spinoff·Queenstown, Eastern Cape

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HealthUpdate🇿🇦South Africa 🇨🇩Congo 🇺🇬Uganda+144d ago

South Africa has pledged a multimillion-dollar contribution to assist the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda in their response to an ongoing Ebola outbreak, according to the Africa CDC.

4.0/10·AllAfrica News

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HealthUpdate🇿🇦South Africa17h ago

Eastern Cape police cannot rule out that the killing of Nelson Mandela Bay ANC councillor Sicelo Mleve was a political hit. Police Commissioner Lieutenant-General Vuyisile Ncata said more arrests were expected as the alleged hitman, Lufunolwethu Nyodi, who appeared in court on Friday, did not work alone.

3.9/10·Daily Maverick (additional)

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HealthCrisis🇿🇦South Africa13d ago

Dutch police have arrested a 40-year-old man from Middelburg in connection with the death of a 35-year-old man who was found severely injured on a street in the city, authorities

3.9/10·NL Times·Middelburg, Mpumalanga

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HealthCrisis🇿🇦South Africayesterday

South Africa has launched lenacapavir, a groundbreaking HIV prevention medicine, marking a significant moment in the country's fight against the epidemic. This article reflects on the progress made and the crucial role of partnerships in addressing one of the world's most devastating pandemics.

3.7/10·Mail & Guardian (additional)

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HealthUpdate🇿🇦South Africayesterday

By Leah Small/WHRO People living with HIV don’t know when their next refills will come for lifesaving medication, more than a year after the Virginia Department of Health cut funding to HIV clinics serving people who can’t afford healthcare. Many clients of Virginia clinics that lost such funding are weeks away from running out of […]

3.7/10·Virginia Mercury·Virginia, Free State

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HealthUpdate🇿🇦South Africa2d ago

Virginia’s new two-year budget earmarks millions to help offset current and forthcoming federal funding changes to healthcare and social services. It also accomplished a bipartisan multi-year effort to fund cancer screenings for firefighters. Studies show that firefighters are at higher risk for the disease in their line of work due to their heightened exposure to […]

3.7/10·Virginia Mercury·Virginia, Free State

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HealthUpdate🇿🇦South Africa 🇬🇭Ghana 🇰🇪Kenya3d ago

In tonight's edition, South Africa's Day of anti-Immigration marches set as a deadline by organizers is thankfully a far more calm affair than many had feared. Also, rescue services in Ghana are still racing to manage severe flooding that has cost at least a dozen lives. And at Kenya’s largest mental health hospital, patients encounter a different kind of therapy: a personal grooming session provided by two visiting barbers.

3.7/10·France 24 English

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HealthUpdate🇿🇦South Africa 🇮🇳India4d ago

https://www.hindustantimes.com/entertainment/tv/jasmin-bhasin-shares-health-update-as-she-returns-to-india-for-treatment-dubai-hospital-aly-goni-instagram-101782783826503.html

3.7/10·GDELT 2.0 Master Files

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HealthUpdate🇿🇦South Africa 🇲🇼MW8d ago

This article was originally published on Malawi24 ">Malawi24 , Malawi's #1 independent news platform. In South Africa, Vusimusi “Cat” Matlala, who is accused of bribing top police officials to win a R360m (approximately 38.05 billion Malawian kwacha) tender for his health company, pleaded guilty to corruption, fraud and money-laundering charges. Matlala (49) is facing corruption charges after he allegedly bribed Police Chief Gen Fannie Masemola and other top-ranking police […] Read the full article and more Malawi news at Matlala admits bribing police for R360m health tender ">Malawi24 — Breaking news, politics, business, sport and entertainment from Malawi and Africa, updated 24/7.

3.7/10·Malawi24

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HealthUpdate🇺🇸United States 🇿🇦South Africa8d ago

[spotlight] Ten years after its launch in the United States, a new, more effective shingles vaccine is finally set to hit the market in South Africa. While the vaccine, called Shingrix, should soon be available at private sector pharmacies, it seems unlikely that it will be provided in the country's public healthcare system any time soon.

3.7/10·AllAfrica News

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HealthUpdate🇿🇦South Africa10d ago

Did you know your body has an inbuilt sewerage system? It’s called the lymphatic system, and is a crucial part of how your body fights infection and disease.

3.7/10·Daily Maverick (additional)

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HealthUpdate🇿🇦South Africa11d ago

South Africa's healthcare system is facing a contradiction that should concern every citizen. Across the country, hospitals and clinics report shortages of doctors and healthcare personnel, particularly in rural and underserved communities. Yet at the same time, qualified South African doctors remain unemployed or struggle to secure placement within the public health sector.

3.7/10·Mail & Guardian (additional)

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HealthUpdate🇿🇦South Africa12d ago

[RFI] As South Africa becomes the ninth African country to introduce the use of new long-acting drug lenacapavir for HIV prevention, RFI spoke with infectious disease specialist Ndong Essomba Bitchoka about how the treatment works, whether the supply will meet demand and why developing an HIV vaccine remains a challenge.

3.7/10·AllAfrica

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HealthUpdate🇿🇦South Africa12d ago

South Africa’s agricultural sector boasts impressive export figures and job growth, yet farmers fear global instability, disease outbreaks and rising input costs.

3.7/10·Daily Maverick (additional)

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HealthUpdate🇿🇦South Africa12d ago

As South Africa becomes the ninth African country to introduce the use of new long-acting drug lenacapavir for HIV prevention, RFI spoke with infectious disease specialist Ndong Essomba Bitchoka about how the treatment works, whether the supply will meet demand and why developing an HIV vaccine remains a challenge.

3.7/10·RFI Africa (French)

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HealthCrisis🇰🇪Kenya 🇺🇬Uganda 🇿🇦South Africa19d ago

Just four years after COVID-19, the US is demanding an Ebola quarantine camp in Kenya, while Western countries impose travel bans on African nations. This article explores the Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak in the DRC and Uganda, the low risk to South Africans, and the debate around repeating past mistakes in global health response and funding.

3.7/10·Mail & Guardian (additional)

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HealthCrisis🇺🇬Uganda 🇿🇦South Africa 🇨🇩Congo+119d ago

As the Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of the Congo crosses into Uganda, South Africa’s Afrigen biotech laboratory is participating in proposals to develop an effective vaccine.

3.7/10·The Africa Report

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HealthCrisis🇿🇦South Africa 🇳🇬Nigeria 🇰🇪Kenya+221d ago

[RFI] Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo have launched an online campaign to tackle growing mistrust surrounding a deadly Ebola outbreak. The World Health Organization (WHO) says misinformation is hampering efforts to contain the haemorrhagic fever, which broke out in the eastern province of Ituri on 15 May.

3.7/10·AllAfrica (Latest Headlines)

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HealthUpdate🇿🇦South Africa23d ago

A new report by Virginia’s Joint Commission on Health Care found 13 of Virginia’s 36 rural hospitals are at distant or immediate risk of closure, as state lawmakers and their constituents work to close healthcare access gaps in the commonwealth’s farthest-flung regions. The commission based its analysis on patients’ socioeconomic demographics and insurance types as […]

3.7/10·Virginia Mercury·Virginia, Free State

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