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The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) is the national public health institute of South Africa, [1] providing reference to microbiology, virology, epidemiology, surveillance and public health research to support the government's response to communicable disease threats. [2] [3]
HIV and AIDS in South Africa are major health concerns, and more than 5.3 million people are thought to be living with the virus in South Africa. [7] HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) is the retrovirus that causes the disease known as AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome). South Africa has more people with HIV/AIDS than any other country. [8]
Pages in category "Disease outbreaks in South Africa" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. ... 2023—2024 cholera outbreak in South Africa; C.
Rwanda, Senegal, and South Africa were identified as countries where mRNA vaccines might be produced. Africa CDC aims to have 60% of vaccines used in Africa be produced in Africa by 2040, as opposed to less than 1% in 2021. [13] An African Epidemics Fund was agreed to in a February 2022 meeting.
Prior to 2017, an average of 60 to 80 listeriosis cases were confirmed in South Africa per year. [1] The outbreak was first identified by doctors at Chris Hani and Steve Biko academic hospitals in July 2017, who notified the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) about an unusually high number of neonatal infections.
The 2022–2023 mpox outbreak in South Africa is a part of the larger outbreak of human mpox caused by the West African clade of the monkeypox virus. South Africa was the forty-seventh country, outside of the African countries with endemic mpox, to experience an outbreak in 2022. The first case of mpox in South Africa was on June 23, 2022. [1]
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Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCPA; South Korea) Centers for Disease Control (CDC; Taiwan) National Administration of Disease Prevention and Control (国家疾病预防控制局; People's Republic of China), established on 13 May 2021; Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CCDC; People's Republic of China)