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Aurum launches COVID-19 donation drive

Click here to visit our donation drive website. The Aurum Institute has established a donation drive to amplify the COVID-19 response, by supporting the vulnerable and those working on the frontli...
Aurum Unlock’d at the UN Youth Forum: an interview with Aurum’s Farai Mubaiwa

Youth participants from around the world interacted with policymakers and decision makers on young people’s challenges, potential, and needs during the 2019 Youth Forum of the UN Economic and Social...
Reflecting on Women’s Month in SA

Celebrating the Women Leaders of CHAPS Public health care relies on strong and transformative leadership to remain resilient and responsive to the needs of our population. In the last 10 years, w...
Yale joins the ‘surge’ to prepare African scientists to lead HIV treatment and prevention

South Africa has the largest HIV epidemic in the world, with an estimated 7.1 million infected individuals. National and global commitment to a “surge” — rapid expansion of HIV/AIDS and TB trea...
Smart Medication Container Included in GDF product Catalog

Stop TB Partnership’s Global Drug Facility (GDF) and the Unitaid-funded Adherence Support Coalition to End TB (ASCENT project) announce the inclusion of the first digital adherence technology (DAT) ...
Aurum staff participate in international HIV/AIDS awareness campaign

Staff from The Aurum institute’s Rustenburg Clinical Research Site, participated in an international campaign to mark National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NBHAAD). This is a US commemoration obse...
Together We Can Achieve Our Vision To Improve The Health Of The Poor And End TB And HIV

Nelson Mandela called on the world to “make poverty history” and “to do more in the fight against AIDS by also fighting TB”. Poverty and TB are inextricably linked. In the words of Archbishop ...
IBM Watson Success Story: The Aurum Institute

The Aurum Institute needed to integrate clinical data from cross-border research sites located in several sub-Saharan African countries, each run by data managers who speak different languages and pos...
Aurum hosts first meeting as SAHTAC secretariat

The Aurum Institute recently hosted the annual general meeting of the South African Health Technologies Advocacy Coalition (SAHTAC), the first since it took over the secretariat role this year. Spea...
Seizing the Moment to Eliminate TB in South Africa

The Aurum Institute was honored to host the South African launch of the Lancet Commission Report on Tuberculosis: Building a TB-Free World on behalf of the National Department of Health on Tuesday, ...
The Aurum Institute on KasieFM 97.1

The Aurum Institute's Dr Arabang Letebele and Nobuntu Nokwali appeared on Ekurhuleni community radio station Kasie FM97.1 this morning to talk about the importance of getting tested for HIV. ...
World TB Day- TB treatments are notoriously hard to stick to: shorter regimens offer a breakthrough

This article by Prof Violet Chihota, was originally published in The Conversation Tuberculosis (TB) is a major cause of illness and death around the world. In 2019, 10 million people fell ill with...
The Aurum Institute congratulates Board member on National Order awarded by President Cyril Ramaphosa

PARKTOWN, 25 APRIL: The Aurum Institute extends its heartfelt congratulations to one of its longest-serving Board members, Prof Yosuf Veriava, after his outstanding service to South Africa was recogni...
The Aurum Institute supports commemoration of Bank of Lisbon fire

On 5 September 2018, a fire broke out at the Bank of Lisbon building in Johannesburg, killing three firefighters who were struggling to douse the flames. ...
High risk of Tuberculosis in people living with HIV

The Lancet Global Health journal reports the findings of a study of a host blood test that can find those at high risk of tuberculosis in people living with HIV. The blood mRNA biomarker differentiate...
The Aurum Institute participates in UNITAID NGO delegation stratergy retreat

Biannually, the UNITAID NGO Delegation holds a strategy retreat to discuss key strategic priorities for organisations that comprise the delegation and to visit UNITAID projects as well as build links ...
After setbacks, rollout of new TB prevention pills to start in six districts

This article was originally written by Tiyese Jeranji for Spotlight on 14th April 2021. After various delays and setbacks, new, less toxic, short-course tuberculosis (TB) prevention therapy is fi...
South Africans Skip Lines, Get Medicine From Vending Machines

JOHANNESBERG, SOUTH AFRICA - An innovative system to dispense medicine to patients with chronic illnesses is taking off in South Africa. The award-winning “Pelebox,” created by South African engin...
Aurum launches TB Preventative Treatment rollout in Ghana

Aurum Institute Ghana, recently launched the rollout of 3HP, a new, less toxic, short-course tuberculosis (TB) prevention therapy (TPT). This is part of the IMPAACT4TB project, implemented by a cons...
Improving availability of patient-friendly tuberculosis preventive therapy

Global partners working to tackle the tuberculosis (TB) epidemic have announced the latest in a package of measures to increase supply security and availability of a short-course TB preventive therapy...