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Aurum at Union Conference 2023

We are excited to announce our participation in this year's Union World Conference on Lung Health, which will take place in person from November 15th to 18th at the Palais des Congrès in Paris.The Co...
Ascent South Africa launches at randomization event

The ASCENT South Africa team recently held a successful randomization event which also served as the kick-off of the digital adherence technologies (DAT) project in South Africa. The ASCENT project...
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...
Watch: IMPAACT4TB Project 3HP rollout

We have carried Tuberculosis (TB) for far too long, we need to move away from a narrow focus on treatment in order to end TB. Despite TB being both a curable and treatable disease, millions of people...
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...
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...
Digital chest X-ray, symptom-based screening doubled yield of undiagnosed TB in inmates

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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...
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...
Fundação Aurum partners with Mozambican government to help end TB

Mozambique has shown its commitment to ending TB, with Prime Minister Carlos Agostinho do Rosário, attending the launch of the rollout of a new TB prevention therapy (TPT) recently. The Aurum Instit...
IndyGeneUS, Global Health Innovations, Aurum Institute Partner for Large-Scale Sequencing

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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...
Shorter weekly course of rifapentine-isoniazid associated with much higher treatment completion rates compared to longer daily course

A randomized trial found that treatment completion was higher among HIV-positive persons who were assigned a shorter course of rifapentine-isoniazid therapy to prevent tuberculosis disease compared to...
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...
Dablapmeds: A convenient shortcut to medication collection

The Aurum Institute continues to bring patient-centred healthcare solutions, this time, supporting the Department of Health Dablapmeds initiative. Dablap is a colloquial term for shortcut and is the n...
Public health and hospital‐based nursing intersection: Case study of drug‐resistant tuberculosis patients.

Pietersen, E., Anderson, K. and van der Heijden, Y.F., 2022. Public health and hospital‐based nursing intersection: Case study of drug‐resistant tuberculosis patients. Public Health Nursing....
The Aurum Institute at the 52nd Union World Conference on Lung Health

Aurum has extensive experience in TB research, specifically TB treatment clinical trials, TB prevention trials with vaccines, preventive therapy, epidemiological studies, implementation research an...
The utility of repeat Xpert MTB/RIF testing to diagnose tuberculosis in HIV-positive adults with initial negative result.

Hanifa, Y., Fielding, K.L., Chihota, V.N., Adonis, L., Charalambous, S., Foster, N., Karstaedt, A., McCarthy, K., Nicol, M.P., Ndlovu, N.T. and Sinanovic, E., 2018. The utility of repeat Xpert MTB/RIF...
Opt4TPT South Africa study team recruits and enrols participants

On 16 September 2021, the Opt4TPT study team in South Africa implemented by The Aurum Institute, started enrolling patients visiting the Chiawelo Community Health Centre (CHC) for antiretroviral the...