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COVID-19: Discontent among CHWs on the frontlines

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In South Africa’s war against COVID-19 community healthcare workers are foot soldiers on the frontlines. Spotlight spoke to CHWs from across the country about their concerns regarding a lack of protective equipment and job security.

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COVID-19: Discontent among CHWs on the frontlines

COVID-19: SA to start enrolling patients in landmark WHO trial

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South African researchers are poised to start enrolling patients in a landmark international clinical trial which will compare the safety and effectiveness of four different drugs or drug combinations against COVID-19.

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COVID-19: SA to start enrolling patients in landmark WHO trial

COVID-19: Regulation 11 should prevent promotion of quack treatments, but does it?

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Tendai Mafuma describes what happened when SECTION27 tried to use new regulations to bring an end to the promotion of an unproven treatment for COVID-19 in South Africa and compares the current situation with the TAC’s successful court battle against Matthias Rath’s promotion of unproven AIDS treatments.

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COVID-19: Regulation 11 should prevent promotion of quack treatments, but does it?

COVID-19: Desperate pleas as protective gear runs low

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Healthcare workers are sounding the alarm as life-saving protective equipment runs critically low in facilities across South Africa, and the world, due to increased demand created by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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COVID-19: Desperate pleas as protective gear runs low

COVID-19: Some chronic patients to be given enough pills for 3 or 4 months

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Four provinces have made positive moves to announce that patients on chronic medicines will be able to have their scripts filled for as long as three or four months in order to minimise their exposure to possible COVID-19 infection in public spaces like clinics.

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COVID-19: Some chronic patients to be given enough pills for 3 or 4 months

COVID-19: Testing to be ramped up and new tests in pipeline

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South Africa’s strategy to defeat COVID-19 (Coronavirus Disease 2019) is to lockdown the country and upscale testing to quickly identify individuals who may have been infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

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COVID-19: Testing to be ramped up and new tests in pipeline

COVID-19: Lockdown responses from farm workers to sex workers to CSOs

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As the major social and economic disruption that will be caused by South Africa’s COVID-19 lockdown becomes apparent, civil society organisations caution that issues affecting the poor and marginalised could fall through the cracks.

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COVID-19: Lockdown responses from farm workers to sex workers to CSOs

COVID-19: What you may and may not do during South Africa’s 21-day lockdown

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Regulations have been published setting out how things will work under South Africa’s 21-day COVID-19 lockdown. Here we answer some of the top questions on what people in the country may or may not do in this time.

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COVID-19: What you may and may not do during South Africa’s 21-day lockdown

COVID-19: Leading health experts welcome lockdown as ‘right thing to do’

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While public health experts welcome the lockdown as “the right thing to do”, some warn that a lockdown alone is not the silver bullet.

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COVID-19: Leading health experts welcome lockdown as ‘right thing to do’

COVID-19: Giving meaning to “social solidarity” through mental health support

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People living with mental illness are among the most vulnerable people in society and face widespread stigma. In our response to COVID-19, we must be sensitive to the needs of this group of people, writes Julia Chaskalson.

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COVID-19: Giving meaning to “social solidarity” through mental health support

COVID-19: SA’s lockdown is a brave decision in uncertain times

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The decision to institute a lockdown is evidence of a government taking both scientific evidence and the need to save lives seriously and then taking carefully considered action, writes Marcus Low.

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COVID-19: SA’s lockdown is a brave decision in uncertain times

World TB Day: What does COVID-19 mean for people with TB?

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Around 10 million people get sick with TB every year. On World TB Day Amy Green asks what COVID-19 means for this group of people.

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