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COVID-19 orphanhood is a ‘hidden pandemic’
More than 1.5 million children worldwide have lost their primary caregivers – at least one parent or grandparent – to COVID-19.
16 Aug 2021
UCT staff receive the Covid-19 vaccine at the Pinelands vaccination site
UCT staff members who are 35 and older received the Covid-19 vaccine at the Pinelands Emergency Medical Services vaccination site.
16 Aug 2021
Women’s Month: Policy manager turns research into action for a better future
Ziyanda Stuurman’s work at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab involves turning academic research into blueprints for actionable policies.
13 Aug 2021
Own your future at the UCT Epic Job Expo
Students can meet their future dream employer at this year’s UCT Epic Job Expo; attend, provide feedback and stand a chance to win a Superbalist voucher.
13 Aug 2021
Why population immunity is not a realistic goal in Africa’s bid to control COVID-19
In public health, an important goal of vaccination and immunisation is to reach population or herd immunity. This is why the term comes up often in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic. And it helps to be clear about what it means.
13 Aug 2021
Republished
First forensic pathology PhD almost gave up
Recent graduate Dr Sipho Mfolozi is the country’s first PhD in forensic pathology — but he almost quit just short of the finish line.
13 Aug 2021
HIV infection may be driving drug resistance in tuberculosis
Results published recently in The Lancet Microbe detail analysis of 10 years’ health data, showing a relationship between HIV infection and acquisition of rifampicin resistance by tuberculosis.
13 Aug 2021
UCT team nets inaugural agri-entrepreneurship prize
PhD candidate Julian Kanjere and his team have brought home the inaugural Inqola FEED Innovation Prize for their blockchain enabled food traceability platform, FoodPrint.
12 Aug 2021
UCT_CARES: Chatbot and other new student support services
The UCT_CARES student support and information service has been augmented by three faculty CARES nodes and a new WhatsApp chatbot service.
12 Aug 2021
The 2021 TB Davie Memorial Lecture
VC Prof Mamokgethi Phakeng writes to the UCT community about the annual TB Davie Memorial Lecture.
12 Aug 2021
T cells face off against variants to boost COVID-19 immunity, study finds
With the fight against COVID-19 beset with concerns around the efficacy of vaccines in the face of a mutating virus, University of Cape Town (UCT) virologists have shown that the body’s T cells maintain 85% of their capacity to detect variants, continuing to mount a substantial defence to prevent severe illness, hospitalisation and death.
12 Aug 2021
Women’s Month: Confronting legal dissonance in South Africa
Department of Public Law senior lecturer Jameelah Omar’s work focuses on scrutinising the status quo regarding law in South Africa.
12 Aug 2021
Shudufhadzo Musida: Change the discourse on mental health disorders
Miss South Africa 2020 Shudufhadzo Musida delivered the keynote address at UCT’s annual Women’s Day event.
11 Aug 2021
Instituting a living wage enables people to choose dignity - report
A recent report from the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Development Policy Research Unit indicated that in quarter four of 2018, 46.6% of all minimum wage earners received below the national minimum wage in their sector, with numbers well above that in some major industries.
11 Aug 2021
Serendipitous discovery leads scientists to new galaxies in the sky
Scientists from UCT’s Department of Astronomy form part of a larger team of researchers who have discovered 20 new galaxies.
11 Aug 2021
T cells face off against variants to boost COVID-19 immunity
University of Cape Town virologists have shown that the body’s T cells maintain 85% of their capacity to detect variants of COVID-19.
11 Aug 2021
Women’s Month: ‘Dream big’, women in sport urged
The fifth annual Women in Sport event, hosted by UCT’s ParaSports Club, took place on Saturday, 7 August.
11 Aug 2021
Fatima Khan: human rights lawyer, teacher, and master juggler
Associate Professor Fatima Khan, the director of UCT’s Refugee Rights Unit, always had hopes of becoming a well respected human rights lawyer.
10 Aug 2021
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