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08 April 2020
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Story Prof Francois Vreÿ, and Prof Hussein Solomon
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The international response to the Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) as a health security threat stimulated an international response that commenced with drastic, but localised actions in China, but responses rapidly manifested in more extreme measures in the rest of the world. Amidst international efforts imposing extraordinary national and international movement restrictions and a rush to find a medical cure, two questions arise. First, how does COVID-19 as a health security threat feature within the global security debate and second, how to explain the harsh responses that one observes.
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Prof. Brits chosen for international leadership programme
2009-11-16
Prof. Hanneke Brits of the Department of Family Medicine at the Faculty of Health Sciences of the University of the Free State (UFS) has been chosen to participate in an international leadership programme of the Institute for Palliative Medicine in San Diego, California in the USA. Over the next two years Prof. Brits will be receiving mentoring and opportunities to enhance leadership skills that will advance the development and delivery of palliative care to terminally ill patients in South Africa and worldwide. Prof. Brits says it is a tremendous honour to be selected for the programme. She is eager to get started and bring new knowledge back to benefit patients. She is also medical director of the Sunflower House for palliative care in Bloemfontein.
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