IAVI and Merck Collaborate to Develop Vaccine Against SARS-CoV-2
This vaccine candidate will use the recombinant vesicular stomatitis virus (rVSV) technology that is the basis for Merck’s Ebola Zaire virus vaccine
Why should you stay fit during COVID-19?
Physical fitness is crucial for both a healthy body and a healthy mind and emotional wellbeing.
What does the WHO say about smoking and COVID-19?
Tobacco causes 8 million deaths every year from cardiovascular diseases, lung disorders, cancers, diabetes, and hypertension.
As people shun clinics, doctors fear a non-Covid-19 death spike
Health workers and NGOs are grappling with how to integrate Covid-19 into other essential health services to avoid a spike in deaths from South Africa’s usual killers – TB, HIV and diabetes.
250 senior academics issue statement to support Prof Glenda Gray and ‘the Principle of Academic Freedom’
Our very own Professor Linda-Gail Bekker also added her support to Prof Gray.
DTHC CELEBRATES NEWS THAT LONG-ACTING INJECTABLE PrEP IS EFFECTIVE FOR THE PREVENTION OF HIV INFECTION IN CISGENDER MEN AND TRANSGENDER WOMEN
18 MAY 2020 – The HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN) announced results from HPTN 083, a global randomized, controlled, double-blind study that compared the safety and efficacy of long-acting injectable cabotegravir (CAB LA) to daily oral tenofovir/emtricitabine (TDF/FTC) (Truvada) for pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). The study showed that CAB LA lowered HIV incidence among cisgender men and…
DTHF’s own Professor Linda-Gail Bekker talks to SABC News
Research is underway in several countries for the development of a COVID-19 vaccine, and South Africa is no exception. African leaders and the World Health Organisation are among many calling for the vaccine – once developed – to be made available to everyone in every affected country in the world.
The DTHF Remembers World-renowned HIV scientist, Professor Gita Ramjee
The Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation is deeply saddened by the news of Professor Gita Ramjee’s untimely passing due to complications arising from COVID-19. Professor Ramjee was Chief Scientific Officer at the Aurum Institute and former chief specialist scientist and director of the South African Medical Research Council’s HIV Prevention Unit. She was a fundamental figure…
What the discovery of a new HIV strain means for the pandemic
Linda-Gail Bekker, University of Cape Town The discovery of a rare new strain of HIV for the first time in nearly 20 years recently made headlines around the world. The big question is what the discovery means for the overall response to the HIV epidemic. A team of US researchers from Abbott, an American medical…
HVTN702 HIV Vaccine Trial Discontinued
The Desmond Tutu HIV Centre greets with great disappointment the news that the Phase 2b/3 HIV vaccine study HVTN 702 conducted by the HIV Vaccine Trials Network has been stopped by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), the trial sponsors. The decision comes after a recommendation from the independent Data and Safety…