Former O magazine editor Kgomotso Matsunyane and KFM's Ryan O'Connor launched the distribution of a newly-designed female condom at UCT recently. The University is the first in South Africa to make the new PATH female condoms available to its students. Read more ...

Beyond the reaches of Cape Town's green-lung suburbia, the roads are flanked by an uneven collection of government housing projects and informal settlements. And each season brings with it a host of problems: flooding in winter, explosive heat in summer. And now, a UCT researcher has also brought to light the specific household living conditions in these areas, which determine where a child will land on the scale of nutritional inequality. Read more ...

In August last year, UCT medical student Saadiq Moolla launched the Mobile Xhosa and Mobile Zulu websites to help himself and his English-speaking peers communicate with patients in their mother tongue. Read more ...

The University of Cape Town (UCT) and South African Medical Research Council (MRC) today announced the establishment of two strategic ground-breaking multi-year partnerships with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF). The partnerships' purpose is to develop new medicines, vaccines and other biotechnologies against HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria. Read more ...

A public education programme is urgently needed to warn clients of the risks of inadequately sterilised barber equipment, particularly those who opt for the clean-shaved haircut known colloquially as the chiskop. Read more ...