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DTHF Welcomes Exciting Milestone in Women’s Prevention as European Medicines Agency Adopts Positive Opinion on Monthly Vaginal Ring to Reduce HIV Risk

News, Press ReleasesJuly 24, 2020

The Desmond Tutu Health Foundation welcomes the positive opinion of the European Medicines Agency on the monthly dapivirine…

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2020 Adolescent Youth Health Policy Online Short Course

NewsJuly 14, 2020

We are excited to announce we are running the 2020 Adolescent Youth Health Policy Online Short Course The…

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A LOOK BACK AT AN EXCITING WEEK AT AIDS 2020: VIRTUAL

Blog Posts, NewsJuly 10, 2020

The 23rd International AIDS conference took place entirely online this week, for the first time in the conference’s…

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Applications Now Open for the 2020 IAVI Fellowship

NewsJuly 10, 2020

The Desmond Tutu Health Foundation (DTHF) and the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), invites ambitious African research fellows…

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DTHF Joins Global Health & Human Rights Organisations in Condemning U.S. Withdrawal from WHO

Blog Posts, NewsJuly 8, 2020

The Desmond Tutu Health Foundation condemns the decision of the Trump administration to withdraw from the World Health…

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DTHF Board Approves Name Change to the ‘Desmond Tutu Health Foundation’

News, Press ReleasesJuly 6, 2020

We are excited to announce that we are changing the name of our organisation to the Desmond Tutu…

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AIDS 2020 Virtual Begins with Focus on COVID-19 & the HIV Response

NewsJuly 6, 2020

“These are remarkable times – and defining times – for the global HIV movement and for the world,”…

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COVID-19: Unpacking the science on vitamin D

Covid-19 - Coronavirus, NewsJune 10, 2020

Some studies have suggested there may be a link between people’s vitamin D levels and COVID-19 outcomes, but…

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Leading virologist warns that C-19 vaccine not likely soon

Covid-19 - Coronavirus, NewsJune 10, 2020

Experts say the much-anticipated prospect of millions of vials of C-19 vaccine being available in September or October,…

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Givengain: DTHF Covid-19 Emergency Appeal

Blog Posts, Covid-19 - Coronavirus, NewsJune 9, 2020

Through your financial support, you can make a difference in Siphokhazi’s life and hundreds of youth like her.

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The DTHF is still serving our communities, but we The DTHF is still serving our communities, but we need your help! We have launched an emergency appeal to adapt our services, support our communities and protect our frontline staff serving as essential workers. Our communities need us more than ever. Show your support at the link in our bio.
Precious Garnett's Fact of the Week: Did you know Precious Garnett's Fact of the Week: Did you know you can do your own HIV test at home? Self-testing or home testing is a strategy to try achieve the first 90 of the United Nation’s 90-90-90 goal ( 90% of people infected with HIV knowing they have the virus; 90% of people diagnosed taking treatment; 90% of people taking treatment having a suppressed/controlled virus). In fact, for a limited time, you can get a free HIV test kit through a collaboration between the South African National Department of Health and Unitaid. Order here and get it delivered to your door: https://www.hivselfscreening.co.za/ https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-019-7122-5
Thanks to @legends_barber for an awesome day! We g Thanks to @legends_barber for an awesome day! We gave over 50 young men free haircuts and HIV tests 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 #internationalmensday @abbottglobal
After the success of our last partnership, and to After the success of our last partnership, and to celebrate International Men's Day, the Legends Barbershop mobile unit will once again provide free haircuts to men who test for HIV on the Amajita Tutu Truck. ⠀ See you there on Tuesday! @legends_barber #DTHF #internationalmensday
Katherine Gill's Fact of the Week: The ECHO Study Katherine Gill's Fact of the Week: The ECHO Study found no substantial difference in the risk of HIV infection among women using the contraceptive injection, implant or copper IUD – a positive finding for women using these contraceptive methods. Learn more about this study here: https://buff.ly/2PIPXAY
The amazing Women of Worth team at Philippi last F The amazing Women of Worth team at Philippi last Friday, bringing the energy to support the Bokke!! Maybe their incredible spirit reached the team in Japan and helped secure the win - you never know! 😄 Thanks to our amazing staff for all their energy last week 🇿🇦🇿🇦
Congratulations to the amazing Springbok team!!! S Congratulations to the amazing Springbok team!!! SA is so proud of you 🇿🇦🎉
Emavundleni site in their green & gold for #BokFri Emavundleni site in their green & gold for #BokFriday
DTHF Head Office really brought the energy for #Bo DTHF Head Office really brought the energy for #BokFriday yesterday - Go Bokke!! 🎉 🎉
Wow - the J52 team at Groote Schuur really knows h Wow - the J52 team at Groote Schuur really knows how to show the love! #BokFriday #strongertogether #rugbyworldcup2019
Happy birthday to our Director, Emeritus Professor Happy birthday to our Director, Emeritus Professor Robin Wood 🎉🥳
Lulu Nair Fact of the Week: Did you know that the Lulu Nair Fact of the Week: Did you know that the first human vaccine trials for chlamydia, conducted between 2015 and 2017, found the vaccine to be safe, well-tolerated and immunogenic? This is a huge step towards a working chlamydia vaccine. Read more about this here: http://bit.ly/2Vxtec9
We would like to wish our patron Archbishop Emerit We would like to wish our patron Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu a very happy 88th birthday. Working under his name and with his legacy had made it easy to approach our work with the compassion and service he has embodied for so long. Happy birthday and thank you 🎉
Today we bid a very fond farewell to 2 amazing tea Today we bid a very fond farewell to 2 amazing team members, who are heading back to their respective homes to undoubtedly continue doing great work. Thank you for everything, we will miss you both!
DTHF staff supporting #SunflowerDay, which raises DTHF staff supporting #SunflowerDay, which raises awareness for those diagnosed with life-threatening blood diseases like leukaemia. Please follow the link to do your part and donating to the Sunflower Fund: sunflowerfund.org/be-a-donor
Tracey Naledi Fact of the week:⠀ Did you know th Tracey Naledi Fact of the week:⠀ Did you know that Mental health problems affect 10–20% of children and adolescents worldwide and we have failed to act even though we have the evidence to do so?⠀ Read about why that is so and what we can do about it: https://buff.ly/2ZN4xwJ
Our Clinical Trials Unit at Groote Schuur Hospital Our Clinical Trials Unit at Groote Schuur Hospital took a moment this week to say #NO to violence against women and children. Police recorded 177,620 reported crimes against women in 2017/18. These statistics list 36,731 sexual offences, including rape and assault, and the murder of 2,930 women.⠀ We mourn the lives lost to violent, senseless crimes and continue to support the survivors of these crimes.
For the last week of August, Ntombozuko Ngetu from For the last week of August, Ntombozuko Ngetu from the Masiphumelele Research Office is our final Woman of the Week - congrats!⠀ Even though Woman's Month is over, let's not forget to show gratitude for the many incredible women that work tirelessly to improve the lives of those around them.
Sister Neli Kunene, a Research Nurse at VidiKids i Sister Neli Kunene, a Research Nurse at VidiKids in Philippi, is our Woman of the Week 👏🏽
We have so many amazing women working with us that We have so many amazing women working with us that we couldn’t choose just 1 for this week’s “DTHF Woman of the Week”. So we chose 2! Please join us in celebrating the hard work and dedication of Shimonay Edwards, and check out our page tomorrow for another Woman of the Week 😃
Winnifred Gumula, the Satellite Operations Manager Winnifred Gumula, the Satellite Operations Manager at the Emavundleni Research Centre, is our Woman of the Week this Women’s Month!
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Dr Khosi Kubeka

Dr Khosi Kubeka is a Senior Lecturer in UCT’s Department of Social Development, having joined the department in 2010 as an AW Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellow. Dr Kubeka represents the interests if the University of Cape Town on the DTHF board. She currently teaches research methods and coordinates all the research programmes in her department. Dr Kubeka’s areas of research and interest lie in Youth Developmental Wellbeing, specifically youth exclusion and inclusion in education, health and the economy, as well as youth contribution to community development.

Professor Robin Wood - Executive Director

Professor Robin Wood has had a distinguished career in medicine, both within South Africa and further afield. He is currently the Emeritus Professor of Medicine at the University of Cape Town and director of the Desmond Tutu HIV Centre at the Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine.  His first foot on the ladder was as student medical officer at a hospital in Peru, followed by stints in the United Kingdom and later, Zambia. In 1990 he took up a Clinical Fellowship at Stanford University.

He subsequently served at the New Somerset Hospital in Cape Town where he became Principal Specialist and Head of Department of Medicine. It was in this setting that he confronted the HIV epidemic leading to the establishment in 2004 of the Desmond Tutu HIV Centre within the Institute for Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine at the University of Cape Town. He has A-rated academic status and has influenced health policies within South Africa and abroad. A prolific writer, he has published numerous research papers, articles and several books and is the recipient of a number of prestigious awards.

Charles Abrahams

Charles Abrahams practices as a qualified attorney-at-law with specialist experience in business and human rights law, sovereign debt, complex class action litigation, public interest and human rights law, and competition law. He is a senior partner at Abrahams Kiewitz Incorporated. He frequently participates in and is often invited to contribute to domestic and international conferences and seminars.

In particular, he has participated as an expert consultant in the mandates of Professor John Ruggie, then Special Representative of the United Nations (UN) Secretary General for Business and Human Rights that led to the adoption by the United Nations Human Rights Council of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. He is currently a consultant for the UN, drafting the commentary on the Guiding Principles of Foreign Debt and Human Rights.  Among other accolades and honours, he was Cape Law Society Human Rights Attorney of the Year, 2012.

Mpho Ndebele

Mpho Ndebele is a retired professional social worker who has served on various boards, including the Environmental Development Agency, the National Business Initiative, Black Sash, Impumelelo Innovations Awards, Brimstone Investments and Siphumelele Investments. She served as the first Executive Director of the Social Change Assistance Trust, an independent fundraising and grantmaking development agency.  In 2010 she was appointed the first lay-Canon in the Diocese of Cape Town and the first woman and lay-person to be selected as Chancellor of St George’s Cathedral.

Thandeka Tutu-Gxashe

Eldest daughter of Archbishop Emeritus Desmond and Mrs Leah Tutu, Thandeka is deeply concerned about public health. She has a Masters degree in Public Health from Emory University, Atlanta, USA. She has served as Research Project Coordinator, Rollings School of Public Health, Emory University; Director, Africa Projects University of California; and Programme Manager, Perinatal HIV Research Unit, Soweto. Currently, Thandeka is CEO of Tutudesk – an international organisation based in Johannesburg that promotes a simple plastic table that is changing the lives of learners in under-resourced countries around the world, including South Africa.

Peter Grant

Peter Grant joined the University of Cape Town Finance Department in 1983. In 1990 he became the second most senior person within the department until his retirement in 2015. He also took on the responsibilities of acting-Director Finance from time to time. The Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation has benefitted greatly from his financial expertise.

Professor Linda-Gail Bekker - Executive Director

Professor Linda-Gail Bekker is the deputy director of the Desmond Tutu HIV Centre a research centre within the Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine at the University of Cape Town. She is also the chief operating officer of the Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation and immediate past president of the International AIDS Society. She has had a distinguished career as a professor of medicine and is a principal investigator of numerous groundbreaking studies in the field of HIV and TB.

Zohra Ebrahim - Chair

Zohra Ebrahim holds an HDE degree from the University of Cape Town. After two years of teaching, she rose to become the national civic coordinator of the United Democratic Front. She subsequently became the first black female President of the South African Institute of People Management. Zohra’s leadership at company and organisational level is rooted in years of community involvement and institution building. She has a profile that few women in South Africa have attained in the community, business, and political fields. Among her awards are the Lebone Women Achievers 1997, and she was elected as one of the Global Leaders of Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum in 1998. Her extensive knowledge, skills and experience across both the private and public sector make her an invaluable member of the DTHF team.

Professor Linda-Gail Bekker MBChB, DTMH, DCH, FCP (SA), PhD

“Are you healthy?”   Linda-Gail Bekker believes passionately in the right of every citizen to health and wellbeing. At the Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation she has brought together rigorous clinical research with community development.  As an NPO the Foundation is able to raise funds to support outreach projects particularly those engaging youth. With a deep concern for the vulnerability of young people growing up in adverse situations, her vision is to create and sustain a centre of excellence for adolescent health and wellbeing.

Professor Robin Wood DSc (Med), FR (SA)

A pioneer in the introduction of treatment and clinical care of people living with HIV and AIDS in South Africa. Robin Wood was a staunch activist for access to antiretroviral therapy when this medication was denied to South Africans. A prolific writer and ardent investigator, his passion is to answer the question, “Why does tuberculosis continue to ravage our communities when the disease is curable and has been brought under control in many urban situations?”