Many young South Africans do not know that contraceptives are available. The shipment of more than 20 000 Coral Healthcare condoms has arrived in time for our Women of Worth (WOW) training session on sexual and reproductive health to take place next week. The condoms will be going into health packs that will be distributed to 10 000…
The Mark Wainberg Fellowship Programme: Experts in HIV Service Delivery is a two-year fellowship for five sub-Saharan African clinicians. This initiative is part of the IAS Educational Fund. The receivers of this initiative will spend one year in Europe and one year in Africa at clinical institutions. They will receive in-depth training on HIV clinical…
On December 1st, World AIDS Day 2017, the Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation (Cape Town, South Africa) partnered with Butler’s Pizza. Butler’s pizza made fifteen pizzas per clinic to help us show our appreciation for our healthcare workers in clinics around the Klipfontein and Mitchell’s Plain regions. The nurses and health workers were delighted that their work is…
This World AIDS Day 2017, the Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation (Cape Town, South Africa) has partnered with Butler’s Pizza (website here) for World AIDS Day 2017. For the week around World AIDS Day (27 November – 3 rd December), anyone in the Cape Town Butler’s Pizza delivery zone can phone Butler’s Pizza and have the option…
The Tutu Teen Truck is a non-traditional health clinic on the back of a truck. This free service is not restricted to one place as it drives to different locations in Cape Town, delivering free healthcare to young people between 12-24 years. It targets areas that adolescents can find easily in limited-resource settings such as near…
The Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation (DTHF) at the University of Cape Town, in partnership with the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), invites ambitious research fellows to undertake adolescent research in an exciting flagship HIV research programme. The IAVI Fellowship grant applications can be made following the instructions in the flyer below.
The Emavundleni research centre is a branch of the Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation that specialises in HIV prevention and also research. There was a need for an adolescent-friendly space and so, an additional clinic was established at Philippi Village for the implementation of adolescent clinical trials. It is anticipated that the first studies to be implemented at…
In developing countries, there will be an estimated 89 million unintended pregnancies this year. Nearly three quarters of these women are predicted to have no access to any contraception. This directly affects maternal mortality. There are 308 thousand expected maternal deaths in 2017. This can be reduced to 84 thousand with full contraceptive coverage and maternal care…
In South Africa, there are a predicted 800 thousand to 1.8 million men who have sex with men (MSM). This is a key population to target for HIV prevention since MSM in 38 low- and middle-income countries are 19 times more likely to be infected with the virus than the average, heterosexual male. (1) Subsequently,…
The International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) has a fantastic fellowship program, and two of their fellows have been researching at the Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation. Separately, they have researched why people refuse HIV treatment and how drugs that prevent HIV transmission can also be used to prevent hepatitis B. Sicily Mburu, an IAVI fellow at…