Meet Dr Charissa Naidoo, one of the latest recipients of research grants by L'Oréal South Africa announced recently – she is an SAMRC-funded Postdoctoral Research Fellow within the Clinical Mycobacteriology and Epidemiology (CLIME) at Stellenbosch University.

“When a young scientist is promoted, there is new blood in the research community.” These are the words of Professor Janan Dietrich, who has completed 3 years of postdoctoral fellowship within the Health Systems Research Unit of the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC), and recently promoted to Associate Professor within the School of Clinical Medicine at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits).

The announcement by Health Minister Dr Zweli Mkhize on Wednesday night in a webinar that the first tranche of the vaccine doses will arrive in South Africa on 1 February, was long-awaited and welcomed by South Africans.

Most advanced clinical trials testing broadly neutralizing antibody against HIV demonstrate efficacy against sensitive strains

At a recent digicom hosted by Alan Winde, the Western Cape premier made it patently clear that trauma presentations were rising rapidly: by 26% across the five hospitals in the Western Cape sentinel trauma surveillance system, even after restrictions on gathering numbers and on alcohol sales, and a tightened curfew from 16 December