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  • It's time to End TB

    In recognition of World TB Day and for the rest of TB Month, Aurum is highlighting some of its staff working to End TB.   ...
  • 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...
  • South Africans should mobilise to support the NHI

    This article was published in The Conversation on 13 January 2020. Lengthy negotiations ended in good news recently when the price of rifapentine, a lifesaving antibiotic, was marked down by 66% by i...
  • Join a live webinar and discussion with Prof Salome Charalambous on "Differentiated Service Delivery for TB Preventive Therapy

    Tuberculosis (TB) remains a tremendous global public health challenge. TB Preventive Therapy (TPT) has demonstrated ~60-70% efficacy for reducing TB incidence. At the high level UN meeting of 40 coun...
  • 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....
  • Celebrating women in science this IWD

    In recognition of International Women’s Day, Aurum celebrates some of its leading UNESCO data states, less than 30% of the world’s researchers are women.  Not a single country can claim to have...
  • KAB study finds high COVID-19 awareness

    As South Africa experiences a surge in the number of COVID-19 cases, the Aurum Institute has released findings of a research study on the knowledge, attitudes and behaviors which could be driving the ...
  • Aurum staff appointed to Vanderbilt University

    The Aurum Institute is proud to announce that 10 senior staff members have been appointed in various adjunct positions at the Department of Medicine in the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. T...
  • 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) ...
  • World Aids Day 2020: Gains against HIV should not be derailed by COVID-19

    Let us not lose sight of HIV in the face of COVID-19. This was the World AIDS Day message from Professor Dave Clark, Group Chief Operating Officer and Chief Executive Officer:  Southern Africa at the...
  • Prof Geoffrey Setswe appointed as Professorial Research Fellow at UNISA

    The Aurum Institute is proud to announce that Professor Geoffrey Setswe, Managing Director: Implementation Research Division (IRD), has been appointed as a Professorial Research Fellow at the Univer...
  • New publication: BCG vaccination and COVID morbidity and mortality

    Lucy Chimoyi In 2020, in the absence of therapeutic interventions to control COVID-19 spread, and a seemingly higher COVID-19 burden in many developed countries, many researchers investigated the ass...
  • 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...
  • World TB Day: Let’s seize this moment to change the status quo

    This article by Dr Kavindhran Velen and Professor Salome Charalambous, was originally published in Spotlight and the Daily Maverick This World Tuberculosis (TB) Day, we divert our attention momenta...
  • PhD Opportunity

    The International Division and Implementation Research Division at the Aurum Institute, the TB Centre and Johns Hopkins University, CHAI, Zimbabwe and KNCV Ethiopia are offering a PhD bursary to suppo...
  • New study: Optimising the delivery for tuberculosis preventive treatment

    The Aurum Institute is implementing a new study to assess the delivery of TB preventive treatment (TPT) in three countries, to generate critical knowledge to improve TPT uptake, implementation and ou...
  • 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...
  • New grant to provide an analysis of programmatic treatment of drug-resistant TB

    Aurum Senior Researcher Dr Yuri van der Heijden, has received a 5-year  grant for a study on drug-resistant TB from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Van der Heijden, holds a joint appointmen...
  • Aurum at 11th IAS Conference on HIV science

    Aurum experts recently presented at the 11th International Aids Society (IAS) Conference, which brought together thousands of HIV professionals virtually from 18 to 21 July. On the opening day of the...
  • Call to action for an invigorated drive to scale up TB prevention

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