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New collaboration to research COVID-19 vaccine strategies for people living with or without HIV

Johannesburg/New York City/Oslo. 19 July 2022: The Aurum Institute, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) and the Human Vaccines Project are partnering to deliver an important Afr...
Aurum Annual Report 2021

Aurum Board Chairperson Ms Phangisile Mtshali characterises 2021 as a year of adapting and building resilience. She writes in the Aurum Annual Report 2021, that the organisation had to pivot and seiz...
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...
Partners announce reduced price for patient-friendly tuberculosis preventive treatments

August 1, 2022: Unitaid, The Aurum Institute, the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) and MedAccess today announced two new agreements to lower the price of rifapentine (RPT)-based treatments to p...
The Aurum Institute and IAS to Present the Inaugural Gita Ramjee Prize at HIVR4P // Virtual

Johannesburg, 25 January 2021- The Aurum Institute, in collaboration with the International AIDS Society (IAS), will present the inaugural Gita Ramjee Prize at the upcoming HIV Research for Prevention...
Press Statement: Global Consortium welcomes reduced price for patient-friendly treatment to prevent tuberculosis

The Aurum Institute and its partners also announce the launch of the next phase of work to improve access to shorter TB prevention treatments for children and pregnant women Johannesburg, 3 Aug...
Dr Nelly Mugo becomes 1st recipient of Gita Ramjee Prize at HIVR4P //Virtual 2021

The winner of the inaugural Gita Ramjee Prize says she will continue to honour Aurum’s late Chief Scientific Officer through her work on HIV prevention. Dr Nelly Mugo, was reacting to becoming the ...
Aurum tackles TB in Western Cape farmlands

Jacobus Engelbrecht had been living with TB symptoms for some time, hoping it was a passing flu as he could not afford to be off work on a farm, to go to the clinic. “The clinic is very far, so it ...
Aurum showcases expertise at SA TB Conference

SA TB Conference delegates packed the hall for an Aurum satellite session on: Scaling up shorter TB preventive treatment (TPT) - is there a role for new TB infection tests in South Africa? Prof Viol...
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...
How Aurum's Communications Director Kanya Ndaki overcame her vaccine fears

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Aurum at the 53rd Union World Conference on Lung Health

The Aurum Institute will join colleagues, partners, advocates and friends at the biggest scientific conference on lung health, The Union World Conference on Lung Health which will take place virtually...
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...
TB Prevention in People With HIV: How Short Can We Go?

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250,000 patients to benefit from free access to short-course TB prevention treatment across seven countries

Johannesburg, 24 March 2023 – The Unitaid-funded IMPAACT4TB Consortium, led by the Aurum Institute, announced today that it will provide 250,000 patient courses of short course rifapentine-based pre...
Part One: Reflections from the 11th SA AIDS Conference

This is the first part of a three-part series showcasing the important thoughts shared by Aurum delegates at the 11th SA AIDS Conference in Durban. The conference brought together a diverse group of...
Aurum supporting COVID-19 vaccine rollout in the North West

More than 12 000 people have been vaccinated against COVID-19 in the North West province under the Sisonke implementation study with The Aurum Institute supporting the provincial government by managi...
Aurum Institute Ghana Receives Grand Challenges Grant For Catalyzing Equitable Artificial Intelligence (AI) Use

Aurum Institute Ghana announced this week that it is a winner of a Grand Challenges grant – an initiative fostering innovation to solve pressing global health and development problems and funded by ...
The Crucial Link between HIV Initiatives and Mental Health

In the context of public health, addressing HIV/AIDS requires multifaceted approaches that go beyond physical well-being; successful interventions must encompass the mental health of individuals and c...
Lancet Commission Calls for Renewed Global Response on TB

As the United Nations High-Level Meeting (UNHLM) on TB approaches, a new report from the Lancet Commission on tuberculosis releases recommendations, providing a path forward to turn the tide on this p...