It's World #Hepatitis Day. Here is how you can take action to protect yourself and your loved ones: 🔹 Get tested 🔹 Never share sharp instruments 🔹 Get treated 🔹 Vaccinate babies within 24 hours of birth bit.ly/3YijTXN

Bedaquiline: what might the future hold? - Review and discussion on how this new TB drug (and future ones) might best be used, considering resistance and access. sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Dr Emily Shaw UCL Global Health MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL UCL Division of Infection & Immunity #tuberculosis

📢 Huge congrats to AHRI faculty member Prof Moherndran Archary on his NIHR Global Health Professorship award! He joins 6 other awardees leading groundbreaking work tackling HIV/Aids, chronic respiratory disease & sexual health NIHR Global Health National Institute for Health and Care Research nihr.ac.uk/news/seven-res…

How can infectious disease research be more equitable? Africa Health Research Institute is leading the way across Africa. At the forefront of tuberculosis (TB) research on the continent, AHRI works with local communities to shape research and find effective solutions. Learn more ⤵️🎥

AHRI is at the 'Indigenous Knowledge & Biotrade Indaba 2024' underway in Gqeberha. Earlier, our Prof Nceba Gqaleni was a panelist for a discussion focused on the future of #HIV treatment & African Traditional Medicine-based innovations 📸 with SABC News Lerato Fekisi DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE & INNOVATION

Our inaugural education & training scientific retreat is underway! The meeting gathers 70 early career researchers, faculty, and leadership – providing a platform for presenting new work to peers, and reviewing how we can better support career progression for our scientists

We were honoured to host SAMRC 's CEO & president Prof Ntobeko Ntusi Ntobeko Ntusi as keynote speaker at AHRI's inaugural education & training retreat. Some key 'take-homes': ✅ ask the right questions ✅ foster curiosity ✅ be brave ✅ science is a team sport!

Africa Health Research Institute SAMRC Prof. Thumbi Ndung'u What a great pleasure it was to be part of your program!

And that's a wrap! It's been 3⃣ days of inspiring talks, discussion & guidance on maximising the academic journey at our inaugural education & training retreat. ✅ Prof Prof. Thumbi Ndung'u closed the meeting with an insightful talk on fostering effective mentor-mentee relationships

📢 Calling all photography 📸 enthusiasts. Show us why we need a cure for #HIV ✅ Let your stories be seen! Share your photos & stand to win with SANTHE ➡️ cognitoforms.com/AHRI1/Photogra…

SAPRIN Director, Dr Kobus Herbst held a meeting at the Science for Africa Foundation Science for Africa Foundation in Kenya yesterday to finalise the MoU to host the African Population Cohorts Consortium (APCC). Read more about APCC here ce-apcc.org SAMRC DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE & INNOVATION Africa Health Research Institute

📊A 4-day in-person workshop on classical epidemiology is underway at AHRI. Hosted by our clinical science team, in collaboration with the education & training programme, our early career scientists are getting hands-on training in study design, data analysis, and interpretation.

AHRI's Willem Hanekom gave the keynote at UKZN's CHS annual research symposium today. Take-homes on #TB vaccines: ✅ M72/ASO1e the most promising 💉 candidate in a limited pipeline ✅ efficacy results will be available in 2028 ✅ we need to prepare for rapid implementation now!

In the lead-up to African Traditional Medicine Day, AHRI is proud to co-host a symposium with DUT University of KZN Mangosuthu University of Technology (MUT) to celebrate African Traditional Medicine, in partnership with the eThekwini traditional medicine forum and featuring a poster session, talks & exhibition

Today we mark African Traditional Medicine Day 🌿 📻 Our Prof Nceba Gqaleni spoke with Aubrey Masango 702 exploring themes around the intersection of 'modern' medicine & traditional medicine & the preservation of indigenous knowledge. Listen here ➡️ omny.fm/shows/evening-…

Apply here BY 15 SEP: cognitoforms.com/AHRI1/Biostati… #HIV #TB #Biostatistics #EmpoweringAfricanScience Science for Africa Foundation Gates Foundation Gilead Sciences Ragon Institute Africa Health Research Institute Bots-Harvard Ptnrshp KEMRI-Wellcome Trust RZHRG

Let’s talk about S-E-X! Today is World #SexualHealth Day. If you choose to have sex: 💞 Ensure it is consensual 💞 Have fun 💞 Be safe bit.ly/45OMvZb

What does #AI mean for healthcare in South Africa 🇿🇦 ? In this Spotlight story Jesse Copelyn explores some immediate implications of these new technologies for healthcare, with input from our Emily Wong, MD on using AI-based tools for TB 🫁 screening dailymaverick.co.za/article/2024-0…

Tonight on Ukhozi FM Official 📻 📻 AHRI faculty member and traditional medicine expert Prof Nceba Gqaleni chats to Lucky Nkosi from 8.20pm. Tune in ➡️ listen.ukhozifm.co.za/listenukhozifm/