South African Medical Research Council

Recent papers from South African Medical Research Council

1. Exploring the systemic barriers faced by alternative caregivers in the child protection system in South AfricaJournal of Family Trauma Child Custody & Child Development · 2026
2. Excess Heat and Excess Deaths: Application of Heat-Health Metrics to Assess Mortality Risk in the Limpopo Province of South AfricaInternational Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health · 2026
3. Evaluating the Agreement Between Focused Cardiac Ultrasound in the Emergency Centre and Formal EchocardiographyAfrican Journal of Emergency Medicine · 2026
4. Sexuality and reproductive knowledge and justice in preconception and life course health: a small-scale qualitative gender analysis in Soweto, South AfricaReproductive Health · 2026
5. How academic medicine can confront commercial determinants of healthBMJ · 2026
6. Secondary Metabolite Profiling, Anti-Mycobacterium tuberculosis Activity, Molecular Docking and Dynamics Studies of Carpobrotus edulis Leaf and Twig ExtractsMolecules · 2026
7. Maternal One-Carbon Metabolites and Infant Growth and Development in a South African Cohort with Prenatal Alcohol ExposureJournal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs · 2026
8. Health financing and fiscal tools to support the national response to epidemiological transition2026
9. Protocol for investigating the association between Helicobacter pylori exposure, antigen-specific serological responses, and resistant versus non-resistant hypertension in a South African cohortPLoS ONE · 2026
10. Extended in vivo activity of VRC01 HIV-1 prophylaxis entails initial protective efficacy and subsequent breakthrough infectionsScience Translational Medicine · 2026
11. The 2026 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: a decade of escalating health harms and a decisive moment for allThe Lancet · 2026
12. Is it tuberculosis or chronic pulmonary aspergillosis? Diagnostic challenges, consequences of misdiagnosis, and potential solutions in resource-limited settingsClinical Microbiology Reviews · 2026
13. Spatial transcriptomics of pediatric tuberculosis lymph nodes reveals a conserved hypoxia_SPP1 niche2026
14. ‘It left a big wound’: Young Black African Men’s Lived Experiences of Growing Up Without Biological Fathers in South Africa2026
15. Evaluation of screening strategies for gestational diabetes mellitus: Risk factor-based v. universal approaches in women with and without HIVSouth African Medical Journal · 2026
16. Response to: From training to sustainability: Supporting clinician- scientist career pathwaysSouth African Medical Journal · 2026
17. Assessing HIV vulnerability among young women in South Africa: A comparison of three risk assessment tools2026
18. Creating a combination HIV and pregnancy prevention cascade to measure condom and contraception use among adolescent girls and young women in South African schoolsReproductive Health · 2026
19. Dietary and lifestyle behaviours and health advice by hypertension status among people living with HIV in South AfricaAIDS Research and Therapy · 2026
20. From climate hazards to diet and physical activity pathways: Investigating policy intersections for health in five global South CitiesThe Journal of Climate Change and Health · 2026