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Falling through the cracks: How SA’s healthcare system is failing the LGBTQI community

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About the RETAIN study: Improving RETention and viral load outcomes for people taking Antiretroviral therapy through early IdentificatioN of missed doses

NewsNovember 23, 2022

Too few South Africans living with HIV achieve viral suppression. Although advances in antiretroviral therapy (ART) have reduced…

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Africa REACH welcomes news that Zimbabwe becomes the first African country to approve injectable PrEP

NewsNovember 4, 2022

*This article is based off a press release distributed by DTHF partner, Africa REACH.   The Medicines Control…

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The SOGI Universe: Which planet do you come from?

NewsNovember 3, 2022

People whose sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) do not conform to the majority may experience hostility and…

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PURPOSE 2 – Join this PrEP Trial

NewsOctober 4, 2022

Are you a man or a transgender person who has sex with men? We want to talk to…

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The Desmond Tutu Health Foundation condemns statements on HIV/AIDS by former President Thabo Mbeki

NewsOctober 3, 2022

The Desmond Tutu Health Foundation (DTHF) would like to add our voice to the growing number of organisations…

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About the SUSTAIN study: SUpporting Sustained HIV Treatment Adherence after INitiation

NewsAugust 3, 2022

UNAIDS goals specify that country programs should achieve viral suppression in at least 90% of those who start…

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Safe Spaces Network: How the DTHF Engages with the LGBTQI+ community

NewsJune 30, 2022

  Men who have sex with men (MSM) and Transgender Men and Women have been historically marginalised within…

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FASTPrEP Project Kicks Off in Cape Town

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Adolescent girls and young women remain at disproportionately high risk of HIV infection in Sub-Saharan Africa. Pre-exposure prophylaxis…

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ADVANCES IN ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY ADHERENCE MONITORING

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South Africa has fallen short of the UNAIDS 90-90-90 goals for 2020, particularly in the second two measures:…

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Applications are still open for our 2023 DTHF x @i Applications are still open for our 2023 DTHF x @iaviorg Adolescent Research e-Fellowship. Don’t miss your chance to learn about & contribute to innovative adolescent HIV & TB research in Africa - apply at the link in our bio.
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Ziyanda beautifully opening our #worldaidsday even Ziyanda beautifully opening our #worldaidsday event
The #WorldAIDSDay theme this year is EQUALIZE, and The #WorldAIDSDay theme this year is EQUALIZE, and it urges us to unite to end the prevailing inequalities that are holding back the end of AIDS #EqualizeToEndAIDS
This #WorldAIDSDay, we talked to our CEO, Professo This #WorldAIDSDay, we talked to our CEO, Professor Linda-Gail Bekker, about what we have learnt and achieved in the last 40 years of responding to HIV. Watch the full video on the Desmond Tutu Health Foundation's YouTube channel.
Our community engagement teams are hard at work pr Our community engagement teams are hard at work prepping for our #worldaidsday event at Philippi Village tomorrow. Will we see you there?
Are you joining the final webinar in our 2022 WeMo Are you joining the final webinar in our 2022 WeMove adolescent health series later today? We are discussing Behavioural Economics in Adolescent Health Research at 2pm SAST. #webinar #health #research Follow the link in our bio to register.
Thank you to the team at our LGBTI+ Health Divisio Thank you to the team at our LGBTI+ Health Division for organising a wonderful LGBTQI Health & Advocacy Day today. It was a brilliant program of insightful, diverse speakers. #LGBTHealthMatters #NotStraight
This beautiful SOGI Universe diagram reflects the This beautiful SOGI Universe diagram reflects the wonderful diversity of the LGBTQI+ community. The DTHF hosted our annual LGBTQI Health & Advocacy Day today, with partners who are actively reaching for inclusive, holistic, and skilled health services for all #Equalize #LGBThealthmatters #notstraight
Join us this Friday in a look back at 40 years of Join us this Friday in a look back at 40 years of the HIV & AIDS response. Our CEO, Professor Linda-Gail Bekker, discusses it all – from the origin of the virus to the prevention revolution and what is needed to reach the goal of an AIDS-free generation. Register now: https://bit.ly/3E3U9mm #WorldAIDSDay #WorldAidsDay2022 #hivawareness #HIVresearch #healthresearchph #healthresearch #research #webinar
Our final WeMove webinar for the year is next Tues Our final WeMove webinar for the year is next Tuesday 29 November at 2pm SAST. We will be discussing how behavioural economics can be used to improve adolescent health research. Register at the link in our bio. #webinar #research #adolescenthealth
Have you signed up for our webinar this Friday at Have you signed up for our webinar this Friday at 12pm? Our Executive Director Prof Linda-Gail Bekker will be taking us on a brief history of the HIV Epidemic and what advances we can look forward to in the future. Don’t miss out! Register today at bit.ly/3E3U9mm
We would like to extend a warm congratulations to We would like to extend a warm congratulations to our CEO, Prof Linda-Gail Bekker, for being 1 of only 2 South Africans to make the list of the World's Top 1000 Scientists! We are so proud! 👏 👏 See the full list here: https://bit.ly/3tsGuR0
We were honoured to host visitors from The Bill & We were honoured to host visitors from The Bill & Melinda Gates Medical Research Institute at our Philippi Village site and Emavundleni clinical research offices today.
Members of our mobile services and FASTPrEP study Members of our mobile services and FASTPrEP study completed Gender Sensitivity Training today. The workshop aims to sensitise and educate those in the health field on issues relating to gender, sexuality and diversity.
Did you know that Zimbabwe recently became the fir Did you know that Zimbabwe recently became the first African country to approve the use of long-acting injectable PrEP for #HIVprevention? Read more thoughts on this important decision from DTHF partner, Africa REACH, at the link in our bio.
Mental health is vital to the success of all of ou Mental health is vital to the success of all of our studies. Members of our medical and social-behavioural teams were honoured to welcome visitors from the National Institute of Mental Health to our site at Philippi Village yesterday. #mentalhealth #clinicaltrial #research
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Robert Appelbaum - Board Member

Robert is a senior partner of Webber Wentzel, a major South African law firm. Robert specialises in mergers and acquisitions, project related and other transactional work, in the main in the health and technology arenas.  Robert has worked in, and is expert in a number of African jurisdictions including Angola, Botswana, Ghana, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Mozambique, Kenya, Namibia and others.

Robert was lead attorney  for Business Unity South Africa and Business 4 South Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic and he was and remains led attorney to the South African National Department of Health in relation to COVID-19 vaccines.

Robert was previously Honorary Business Representative for the Middle East and Africa Group for International Enterprise Singapore; the government agency driving Singapore’s external economy. He has also been recognized in several International journals as an expert several legal fields. Robert has BA and LLB degrees from the University of the Witwatersrand.

Robert is the co-author of two books, namely “Public Offers of Company Securities” and of “Business Rescue and Compromise Offers”.

Kevin Osborne - Board Member

With over 25 years of experience in the health and development sector – from the nurturing of non-government and community based HIV organisations in South Africa to leading international science based advocacy agencies –  Kevin brings a solid understanding of policy and service delivery integration that is grounded in community centered realities.

With a background in education and human rights, Kevin has managed a number of large scale international and regional HIV programmes by forging sustainable partnerships with government, communities, UN agencies, the private sector and other development stakeholders. Many of these have intentionally focused on addressing the structural barriers that impede service access – especially for key populations. The PLHIV Stigma Index – which is now routinely used as a tool to capture changes in HIV- related stigma and which has been applied in over 45 countries – was his brainchild.

His leadership roles include being the Executive Director of the International AIDS Society in Geneva;  the chief of party for the PEPFAR- and USAID-supported key population focused LINKAGES project in Washington, DC; the Country Director for PATH in South Africa and the International Planned Parenthood Federation’s Global HIV Advisor in London.

Kevin has been living with HIV for over half his life and is a passionate advocate for ensuring that policies and strategies make a tangible difference in the lives of those whose voices are either seldom heard, listened to or discounted.

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    To assist the Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation in selecting a person for an advertised post. This form may be used to identify candidates to be interviewed. Since all applicants cannot be interviewed, you need to fill in this form completely, accurately and legibly. This will help to process your application fairly.
     

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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?”