The Alan Pifer Award was granted to them for excellence in research, treatment, training and prevention of HIV–related diseases and infections in Southern Africa. Their journey has taken them from the dark days of AIDS denial to an important moment in the history of the epidemic. “What got me into this work,” says Professor Linda-Gail Bekker,…
Brian Kanyemba from the DTHF Men’s Division attended the Co-infections, Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections conference in Seattle February 2015. His interest in the outcomes of the conference was to understand how new bio-medical HIV treatment and prevention interventions might be transferred from the science of clinical trials to the end user in the broader community.…
AGS Movers are platinum sponsors of the annual FIDI international conference to be held in Cape Town 29th March – 1st April. They are using this platform to promote the DTHF Tutu Tester ‘Health on Wheels’ project through a gateway www.agsmovers.com/connect In addition to providing an exceptional online landing page, AGS are providing more than 600 conference…
On World AIDS Day (December 1st), a high-level delegation from the European Union and European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP), launched Phase 2 of the EDCTP, funding from which supports some of the research at CIDRI and the DTHC. As part of the launch, Commissioner Carlos Moedas, EU Commissioner for Research, Science and…
Join us in warmly congratulating our Director, Prof Robin Wood, on his recently being awarded the Weber-Parkes Medal from the Royal College of Physicians, United Kingdom. This is in recognition for his substantial contribution to the fight against tuberculosis. The Weber-Parkes Trust Medal was founded in 1895 by a gift from Dr Hermann Weber in…
Prof. Linda-Gail Bekker is new President-Elect of the International AIDS Society The International AIDS Society (IAS) has announced Dr. Chris Beyrer as its new President for the next two years and Dr Linda-Gail Bekker, MBChB, DTMH, FCP (SA), PhD as the new President-Elect. Linda-Gail Bekker is Deputy Director and Professor of Medicine at the Desmond…
Prof Lange was based in Amsterdam and was one of the first international colleagues who helped us to get going with ART in the clinic at Somerset Hospital. He was protocol chair of the 2NN study and some of our patients alive today owe their lives to this very seminal study. Joep was larger than…
Join us in celebrating the 10th anniversary of the DTHF – Children of the Light On the 7th September Artscape Theatre Cape Town will be hosting the South African premier of the Children of the Light – a PeaceJam documentary about the life and times of Archbishop Desmond Tutu. The proceeds from this event will…
Metropolitan has made a substantial contribution to the Tutu Tester Project. Since its inception, in 2008 the Tutu Tester has utilised sophisticated testing equipment and trained staff, to provide the service in areas stretching from Masiphumelele in Noordhoek through to Khayelitsha. Prof Linda-Gail Bekker stated that the Tutu Tester “takes the health facility to the…
“South Africa is currently implementing the largest antiretroviral treatment programme in the world. This is a very positive development. Unfortunately, with over 400 000 new HIV infections occurring in 2012, South Africa also ranks first in HIV incidence in the world. There is a need to balance treatment and prevention efforts in the country,” cautioned…