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1 day ago | 
bizcommunity.com | Danette Breitenbach |Brendan Seery |Johanna Kyrklund |Jesse Copelyn
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AfriGIS, a leading provider of trusted contextual insights, has entered into a strategic partnership with iPulse, a prominent cloud-based biometrics solutions provider. This collaboration aims to expand both companies' reach, offering an enhanced value proposition to their clients by combining AfriGIS’ high-quality, validated data with iPulse’s biometrics-as-a-service platform.
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1 day ago | 
bizcommunity.com | Danette Breitenbach |Brendan Seery |Johanna Kyrklund |Jesse Copelyn
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Decorex Africa is preparing for its 2025 showcases in Cape Town from 5-8 June at the Cape Town International Convention Centre and in Johannesburg from 24-27 July at the Sandton Convention Centre. Alan Hayward and Garreth van Niekerk, executive creative directors of Decorex Africa.
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1 month ago | 
techfinancials.co.za | Jesse Copelyn |Gugu Lourie
Researchers funded by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) are bracing for the worst, after rumours circulated that the agency is planning to cancel grants for South African clinical studies.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
sowetanlive.co.za | Jesse Copelyn
People in the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal have tested positive for fentanyl, a lab-made painkiller that has been at the centre of the opioid crisis in the US. In the US, fentanyl has causedtens of thousands of deathseach year, often among people in their20s and 30s. While the drug can be prescribed as a legal pharmaceutical, the US crisis is primarily driven byillegally made fentanyl, distributed by drug cartels.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
ewn.co.za | Jesse Copelyn
People in the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal have tested positive for fentanyl, a lab-made painkiller that has been at the centre of the opioid crisis in the United States (US). In the US, fentanyl has caused tens of thousands of deaths each year, often among people in their 20s and 30s. While the drug can be prescribed as a legal pharmaceutical, the US crisis is primarily driven by illegally-made fentanyl, distributed by drug cartels.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
sowetanlive.co.za | Jesse Copelyn |David Harrison
After getting new needles and syringes from a TB HIV Care mobile program at a site in Wynberg, a client prepares a small dose of heroin nearby. Beneath overlapping highway bridges in central Durban, homeless people congregate on a gravelled strip of land, dubbed Ematsheni (“place of stones” in isiZulu) by locals. The strip sits beside the sloping shoulder of a busy main road and is lined by heaps of rubbish and makeshift tents.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
dailymaverick.co.za | Jesse Copelyn
GROUNDUP People who use heroin in Durban are increasingly switching from smoking to injecting, causing public health concerns. Beneath overlapping highway bridges in central Durban, homeless people congregate on a gravelled strip of land, dubbed Ematsheni by locals (“place of stones” in isiZulu). The strip sits beside the sloping shoulder of a busy main road and is lined by heaps of rubbish and makeshift tents.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
allafrica.com | Jesse Copelyn
People who use heroin in Durban are increasingly switching from smoking to injecting, causing public health concerns In Durban, heroin is known locally as whoonga. While it's widely, but falsely, believed that whoonga is an altogether separate drug, the term emerged as street slang for heroin. There are two commonly sold whoonga products: a capsule with powdered heroin which is typically smoked; and 'stone heroin' bought in plastic packets and often injected.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
groundup.org.za | Jesse Copelyn
People who use heroin in Durban are increasingly switching from smoking to injecting, causing public health concerns In Durban, heroin is known locally as whoonga. While it’s widely, but falsely, believed that whoonga is an altogether separate drug, the term emerged as street slang for heroin. There are two commonly sold whoonga products: a capsule with powdered heroin which is typically smoked; and ‘stone heroin’ bought in plastic packets and often injected.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
groundup.org.za | Jesse Copelyn
But the multinational pharmaceutical company says it offered government solutions Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has pinned the blame for South Africa’s current insulin pen shortage on Novo Nordisk. The company did not bid to continue supplying the national health department with pens. MSF protested against the discontinuation on Thursday. Novo Nordisk has told GroundUp that it had already offered to supply the health department with insulin analogue pens.
