Two bright young scientists from the National Health Laboratory Service’s (NHLS) National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) have brought the world a step closer to a possible HIV vaccine. Professor Lynn Morris, head of the NICD’s AIDS Research, and Dr Penny Moore, senior scientist in the NICD’s Centre for HIV and Sexually Transmitted Infections, were […]
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The NHLS featured prominently as a dominant force on the African continent when two of its researchers, their research teams and collaborators were awarded inaugural grants from prestigious international health research funding organisations to conduct cutting edge science on diseases affecting Africans. The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Wellcome Trust, a global charity
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A data review by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has failed to confirm a previously described association between injectable or oral hormonal contraceptives and increased likelihood of HIV infection or disease progression, researchers reported in the June 22, 2012, issue of Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Some prior research has suggested
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South African guidelines for the preventative use of HIV medication by men who have sex with men who are not infected with the virus are to be published in the peer-reviewed academic publication, Southern African Journal of HIV Medicine, this month. The treatment, pre-exposure prophylaxis (Prep), consists of an antiretroviral (ARV) pill that is taken
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12 June 2012; Durban. According to the Chairperson of the TB Conference Prof Martie van der Walt, the rate of TB infection is on the rise. It is stated that the TB epidemic is fuelled by high HIV co-infection rates and compounded by drug-resistant forms of the disease. This year the NHLS will join in
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Cape Town, 13th June 2012 – A new clinical trial in the area of HIV prevention for women is underway in South Africa. It is known as “The Ring Study” and it will test the long-term safety and preventive efficacy of an antiretroviral drug, dapivirine, when this is contained in a vaginal ring that releases
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12 June 2012 Rabies has been confirmed in a 29 year old farmer from Underberg, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa. The patient was admitted to a Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu Natal hospital on the 2nd May 2012 with migratory pain in his arm and shoulder, unilateral ptosis, fever, confusion, and progressively hypersalivation and hydrophobia. The patient was already
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Major milestone heralds broad, collaborative action to fight vaccine-preventable diseases Geneva, Switzerland – May 25, 2012 – Ministers of Health from 194 countries at the Sixty-fifth World Health Assembly today endorsed a landmark Global Vaccine Action Plan (GVAP), a roadmap to prevent millions of deaths by 2020 through more equitable access to existing vaccines
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25 May 2012 New cases at lowest levels ever, but funding gap threatens progress Geneva, Switzerland 24 May 2012 – Despite the dramatic drop in polio cases in the last year, the threat of continued transmission due to funding and immunization gaps has driven the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI)to launch an Emergency Action
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