For the next five years South Africa will be leading one of the latest large-scale trials for a vaccine for HIV.
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Young women in southern Africa are most at risk of becoming infected with HIV. If they take a pre-exposure prophylaxis like Truvada it could change their lives.
With nearly one-fifth of the globe’s HIV positive population, South Africa has the largest anti-retroviral program in the world. But HIV prevention still presents a big challenge for the country.
Two major clinical trials will be conducted in South Africa in 2016 to test ways of preventing new HIV infections.
There are many lessons Southern Africa can learn from Cuba, which became the first country in the world to eradicate mother to child transmissions of HIV and syphilis.
June 5 2015 marks 34 years since the first reports of AIDS in a medical journal.
Novel research in South Africa has found way to test for HIV drug resistance in a cheap and accessible way.
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Associate Professor and Director: Research at the Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute I, University of the Witwatersrand
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Associate Professor in Medical and Health Humanities, University of Cape Town
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Research Professor and DST/NRF SARChI Chair of Virus-Host Dynamics, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, CAPRISA Research Associate, University of the Witwatersrand
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Medical Scientist at the National Institute for Communicable Diseases; Research Associate at CAPRISA; Research Professor in the School of Pathology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Research Fellow, Stellenbosch University
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Director of Implementation Science, Wits Reproductive Health & HIV Institute, University of the Witwatersrand
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Medical Scientist, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Medical Scientist, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Professor of medicine and deputy director of the Desmond Tutu HIV Centre at the Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town
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Ezintsha, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, University of the Witwatersrand
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Bioinformatics, University of the Western Cape
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Researcher and Programme Manager: Clinical Research Consortium for Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute (RHI), University of the Witwatersrand