Battles won – and lost – against AIDS hold valuable lessons for managing COVID-19 Sonali Pal Chaudhury/NurPhoto via Getty Images Linda-Gail Bekker, University of Cape Town World AIDS Day this year finds us still deep amid another pandemic – COVID-19. The highly infectious novel coronavirus has swept across the world, devastating health systems and laying…
10 November 2020 – The Desmond Tutu HIV Centre and Health Foundation welcome the announcement that another trial of long-acting injectable antiretroviral cabotegravir has demonstrated safety and efficacy in the prevention of HIV in cisgender women in Africa. Study sponsors ViiV, NIAID and the HPTN announced yesterday that the randomised part of the landmark trial…
*The following press release was published by African Alliance on Monday 09 November 2020. South Africa’s newest COVID-19 vaccine trial is another crucial step in ensuring a future vaccine works for South Africans and should be commended, says advocacy group the African Alliance and partner, the Vaccine Advocacy Resource Group. “Historically, Africa has had…
Vaccine may strengthen immune response to viral infections, including SARS CoV2 South African scientists from the Universities of the Witwatersrand and Cape Town are launching a clinical trial to test whether the childhood vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) can protect front-line health-care workers from COVID-19, or reduce the severity of illness for…
30 September 2020 – The Desmond Tutu Health foundation bids a sad farewell to Timothy Ray Brown today, who was the first person to be cured of HIV. Brown was declared ‘cured’ in 2008 following a complicated stem cell transplant for lymphoma. He became known as the “Berlin Patient” based on the city in which…
The Desmond Tutu Health Foundation welcomes the positive opinion of the European Medicines Agency on the monthly dapivirine vaginal ring for use by cisgender women over the age of 18 in developing countries to reduce their risk of HIV-1 infection. “Women in Africa have been left behind by progress against HIV for far too long,…
We are excited to announce we are running the 2020 Adolescent Youth Health Policy Online Short Course The course will start on 03 August 2020, Application deadline: 27 July 2020 Applications are now open! View the flyer here! Developed to support staff or governmental & non-governmental organisations working at a national, provincial & district levels, in the implementation…
The 23rd International AIDS conference took place entirely online this week, for the first time in the conference’s history. It brought together scientists, policymakers, healthcare professionals and activists in over 600 virtual sessions. Important HIV prevention, treatment and cure research was unveiled while a closer look was given to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic…
The Desmond Tutu Health Foundation (DTHF) and the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), invites ambitious African research fellows to undertake adolescent research in an exciting online, e-fellowship research programme. Applications are open to those involved in a wide range of research disciplines welcome, eg doctors, nurses, counsellors, community engagement staff, etc. Applications can be submitted…
