COVID-19 - The Aurum Institute

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...
Prof Churchyard in panel discussion: COVID-19: Early lessons from Africa

Register to be part of this webinar on early lessons from Africa on COVID-19 with Prof Gavin Churchyard, Group CEO, The Aurum Institute. He is one of the global experts who will be part of a virtual ...
Aurum management steps-up amid Coronavirus fears

"A public health crisis like this is the reason Aurum exists. Our mission is to save lives. This is the moment for us to step up and fulfil our mission. Let us stand up and be public health champions ...
Aurum doctors join national COVID-19 response

A team of Aurum doctors is using their expertise to advise clinicians at the coalface of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Drs Regina Osih, Senior Technical Expert; Mpho Maraisane, Technical Direc...
Progress on TB care should not reversed by COVID-19

“The progress made in TB prevention and care should not reversed by the COVID-19 pandemic,” says Professor Geoffrey Setswe, Aurum's Managing Director: Implementation Research Division. Speaking a...
Aurum deploys 100 staff for COVID-19 screening

More than 100 Aurum staff members were recently deployed to conduct door to door community screening for COVID-19, as part of our continued support to the national Coronavirus response. The screeners...
My COVID-19 scare: Nursing in the time of Coronavirus

Aurum nurse Sthandwa Mdlalose works at a Gauteng clinic where a fellow health worker tested positive for COVID-19. Sthandwa was in direct contact with her and was therefore at risk of contracting Cor...
Aurum receives PPE donation from MANCOSA

The Aurum Institute was recently the recipient of lifesaving personal protective equipment (PPE) donated by private higher education institution MANCOSA. MANCOSA responded to Aurum’s call for do...
#IASONEVOICE: COVID-19 weighs on SA’s HIV and TB burden

Tanya Nielson, Managing Director of the Clinical Research Division, has been featured in the International AIDS Society (IAS) #IASONEVOICE campaign. The IAS is the world’s largest association of HI...
South Africa hopes its battle with HIV and TB helped prepare it for COVID-19

This article was originally published in Science Magazine on 7 April 2020. As the COVID-19 pandemic sweeps into South Africa, the decades the country has spent fighting the world’s worst combined e...
Are communities in Africa taking the COVID-19 pandemic seriously enough to adjust their daily activities and behaviours for its prevention?

This article was originally published in https://ehospice.com on 12 May 2020. While Africa may count its blessings for the late onset of the pandemic on its shores due to various reasons, it is ad...
Shesha-Geza handwash innovation

Hand washing remains one of the most effective infection control methods and since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, making soap and water or sanitiser readily available, has become life-saving. ...
CDC's Dr Romel Lacson visits Goba clinic

CDC South Africa Acting Country Director, Dr Romel Lacson visited the Goba Clinic in Ekurhuleni to show solidarity and offer encouragement to frontline health workers. Lacson thanked Aurum for its co...
Watch- When epidemics collide: TB, HIV and COVID-19 webinar

Aurum in partnership with the Bhekisisa Centre for Health Journalism, hosted a webinar with a panel including Aurum Group CEO Professor Gavin Churchyard discussing: When epidemics collide: TB, HIV an...
Faith in training and experience helps Aurum nurse conquer COVID-19 fears

Aurum nurses Faith Majola, Marcia Roberts, Nokuthula Malinga and Lerato Matlala Life in the time of COVID-19 is very different for many people. For Faith Majola, it has meant enduring the lockdown a...
Aurum: Public health champions

"The Aurum Institute knows diseases very well, particularly the epidemic ones. We have been fighting them since we came into existence. The first was TB, a hyperepidemic on the gold mines and an epide...
Aurum conducts COVID-19 contact tracing

After a medical doctor at an academic hospital in Gauteng tested positive for COVID-19, a team of Aurum staff were deployed to trace more than 300 patients who were possible contacts of the clinician....
COVID-19 update from The Aurum Institute

The advent of COVID-19, has changed our daily lives and created a heightened level of anxiety throughout the world, including right here in Africa. In these times of uncertainty, Aurum needs to be ...
Aurum receives PPE donation from GHI Architectural Solutions

The team at Aurum's Tembisa Clinical Research Site was recently the recipient of a generous donation of 100 goggles from GHI Architectural Solutions. It is one of the three Aurum sites participatin...
TB prevention must be a priority during COVID-19

Members in Action highlights the many areas of work that our members are championing to ensure a better future in lung health. From our Regions, Scientific Sections and member working groups, to the ...