This recently published Cochrane Review, published by Cochrane Effective Practice and Organisation of Care, explores how parents and carers make decisions regarding vaccinating their children. Cochrane EPOC have also produced a short implementation guide related to this review.

The lockdown, meant to prevent the spread of Covid-19, places women living with abusive partners in harm's way, a new study has found.

As South Africa emerges from the third wave of the Covid pandemic, all efforts are being channelled into encouraging more people to be vaccinated.

Eminent scientist and Director of the SAMRC Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Analytics Research Unit (Wits VIDA), Prof Shabir Madhi, has been awarded the Science-for-Society Gold Medal by the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) at its Annual Awards Ceremony held virtually on 20 October 2021.

Professor Salim Abdool Karim, former President and CEO of the South African Medical Council (SAMRC) and now Director of the organisation’s HIV-TB Pathogenesis and Treatment Research Unit, is the newly elected Vice-President: Outreach and Engagement for the Governing Board of the