MedicalBrief is Africa’s authoritative weekly medical news digest, providing a succinct summary of the latest medical research, news and policy developments, with the links for speedy access to the original source documents. MedicalBrief is a project of the African Medical Brief Foundation, working in partnership with the Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation. The material is delivered directly to subscribers by weekly email to keep the busy clinician abreast of latest developments. MedicalBrief was launched in March 2014, with the first edition going to about 150 people. There since has been phenomenal growth and it now is delivered every week to in excess of 33,000 subscribers, of whom approximately 31,000 are registered medical practitioners, the balance made up from the ancillary medical professions, administrators, and public officials. More than 90% of subscribers are in South Africa, but MedicalBrief has a growing base of southern and east African readers. In November 2015 the MedicalBrief website was established as an online hub for detailed articles and background information. MedicalBrief is published by WMG Media, on behalf of the African MedicalBrief Foundation, in partnership with the Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation (DTHF). The Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation is the NGO arm of the Desmond Tutu HIV Centre, an accredited medical research grouping based at the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Cape Town. The Foundation, supported by the Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu and his wife Leah, has been in existence as a not for profit organisation since 2004. Gilead Sciences Inc supports MedicalBrief with grant funding. It has no input into the development or content of the items published in the e-publication or the website.
