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The geography of COVID-19 misinformation: using geospatial maps for targeted messaging to combat misinformation on COVID-19, South Africa

Chimoyi, L., Mabuto, T., Dube, T., Ntombela, N., Nchachi, T., Tshisebe, D., Chetty-Makkan, C.M. and Setswe, G.K., 2021. The geography of COVID-19 misinformation: using geospatial maps for targeted mes...
Aurum's Dr Lindiwe Tsobe honoured among 2021 Heroic Women

Being named as one of the 2021 Heroic Women is a honour Dr Lindiwe Tsobe is both proud of and encouraged by. The 27-year-old Project Coordinator in Aurum’s Implementation Research Division, was rec...
Digital Chest X-ray with Computer-aided Detection for TB Screening within Correctional Facilities

Velen, K., Sathar, F., Hoffmann, C.J., Hausler, H., Fononda, A., Govender, S., Lerefolo, M., Govender, A. and Charalambous, S., 2021. Digital Chest X-ray with Computer-aided Detection for TB Screening...
Ascent South Africa launches in Cape Town

The Adherence Support Coalition to End TB (ASCENT) project is collaborating with City Health, and TB HIV Care funded by the Global Fund to implement Digital Adherence Technologies (DATs), to sup...
Ascent South Africa initiates TB community outreach activities

ASCENT South Africa recently held a campaign in the busy Tshwane’s inner city “Marabastad”, aimed at tuberculosis (TB) case finding and community education on the use of digital adherence techn...
New study to find and treat TB cases earlier, begins

The first participants have been enrolled in a new Tuberculosis (TB) study aimed at saving lives by increasing early detection and treatment initiation through universal testing. The Community and Un...
World AIDS Day 2021: "Aurum helps me live positively with HIV"

“I was very sick, I was finished. It was God’s mercy that saved me from death. So when I was diagnosed with HIV, I started treatment and I take it vigilantly.” Millicent Mnisi is one of the m...
100k COVID-19 vaccinations administered to vulnerable communities

The Aurum Institute has administered over 100,000 COVID-19 vaccinations at conveniently located sites across seven provinces in South Africa. “This milestone is a credit to the incredible effor...
Digital chest X-ray, symptom-based screening doubled yield of undiagnosed TB in inmates

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The Tyranny of Distance’: How to Vaccinate South Africa’s Most Remote Villages

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IndyGeneUS, Global Health Innovations, Aurum Institute Partner for Large-Scale Sequencing

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Locally-led development: We are willing and ready

We are willing and ready to lead, says Prof Gavin Churchyard in response to more funding being allocated to locally-led development organisations. Prof Churchyard, Aurum Group Chief Executive Officer...
Locally-Led: Operationalizing USAID’s New Vision

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Aurum SA CEO Prof Vinodh Edward appointed at UKZN

Aurum South Africa CEO Prof Vinodh Edward has been appointed Honorary Associate Professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN). Edward said he was especially proud of this appointment at the Col...
Lung and blood early biomarkers for host-directed tuberculosis therapies: Secondary outcome measures from a randomized controlled trial

Wallis, R.S., Ginindza, S., Beattie, T., Arjun, N., Likoti, M., Sebe, M., Edward, V.A., Rassool, M., Ahmed, K., Fielding, K. and Ahidjo, B.A., 2022. Lung and blood early biomarkers for host-directed t...
Aurum recognised for advancing women

With more than 60% of Aurum’s senior and professional level leadership positions filled by women, we are bringing the International Women’s Day theme- Gender equality today for a sustainable tomor...
The Aurum Institute World TB Day Press Release

JOHANESBURG (24 MARCH 2022) Today, on World Tuberculosis Day, The Aurum Institute acknowledges the progress made and the challenges that lie ahead in efforts to end tuberculosis (TB). While COVID-19 h...
Webinar: Invest to find TB to End TB

Prompt diagnosis and treatment of TB are essential to achieving the End TB strategy goal of a world free of TB by 2035. The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound impact on our lives, more so in TB whe...
Aurum Institute set to reveal groundbreaking research on HIV vaccine

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Prof Pontiano Kaleebu joins Aurum Board

Aurum is pleased to announce the appointment of renowned researcher Professor Pontiano Kaleebu to its Board of Directors. Prof Kaleebu is a Sub-Saharan African Network for TB/HIV Research Excellence ...