Walter Sisulu University

Socio-Demographic Factors Associated with Alcohol and Tobacco Use Among Virally Suppressed People Living with HIV in the Eastern Cape, South Africa

Background: Alcohol and tobacco use remain important public health concerns among people living with HIV (PLWH), even after achieving viral load suppression. This study examined the socio-demographic factors associated with alcohol and tobacco use among virally suppressed PLWH in...

Recent Advances in the Design of Inhibitors Targeting the Viral Entry and Replication of the SARS-CoV-2 Virus, Driven by In Silico Approaches

The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has significantly impacted global health, politics, medicine, finance, and society. Since 2020, various mutations have been reported, leading to drug resistance in current treatments against different SARS-CoV-2 strains and a drastic increase in cases of l...

Commodities, States, Land, and Environments in Southern African History

This introduction to the mini-special issue on commodities, states, land, and environments in southern African history frames commodities as a critical lens for reinterpreting the political, social, and environmental histories of southern Africa from the colonial period to the pr...

Medical terminology development in under-resourced languages: Quest for functionality and pursuit for cognition on online communities

This article explores how medical and health care terminology is developed and understood in two under-resourced languages, Zimbabwean isiNdebele and chiShona, in online communities, on platforms like Facebook and WhatsApp. Grounded in the communicative theory of terminology (CTT...

Economic Complexity and Income Inequality in South Africa: The Moderating Roles of Human Capital and Institutional Quality

The paper examines the impact of economic complexity (EC) on income inequality in South Africa using Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) estimation techniques from 2000 to 2025. The study utilises principal component analysis (PCA) to generate the EC index from sub-indices, inc...