The Covid-19 lockdown has exposed the effects of South Africa’s weak alcohol regulations. Government and health campaigners want tougher policies, but the liquor giants are pushing back

If research resilience in the time of COVID-19 was a person then that'd be Dr Jenny Coetzee, a South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC)’s Research Capacity Development (RCD) funded Postdoctoral Fellow at the Perinatal HIV Research Unit (PHRU) – one of the close associate organisations of the SAMRC.

Emerging research on violence against women and children finds that mental illness is common in women who’ve experienced intimate partner violence as well as men who’ve experienced childhood sexual, physical and emotional abuse.

Professor Gray, who is the CEO and president of the Medical Research Council, was screened and vaccinated at UCT’s Lung Institute on Tuesday.

It is time to have an honest conversation about alcohol and violence in our country. Among the devastating epidemics the country faces, South Africa also has an injury epidemic, which places an enormous burden on our health system and society at large, let alone on those injured and those near to them.