Current News:
UKZN Fellowship award
30 Jan 2013
The Council of the University of KwaZulu-Natal, on 23rd January 2013 bestowed upon Professor Marie-Louise Newell, the Director of the Africa Centre, a Fellowship of the University of KwaZulu-Natal. This award is particularly prestigious because...
The machine that will end TB
11 Dec 2012
Nearly 1.5 million people die from tuberculosis every year, weven though most cases can be cured with routine antibiotic treatments. One country's fight to get the ancient scourge under control has an unlikely hero: a simple diagnostic test...
Parkhome Donation
6 Dec 2012
The Department of Health (DOH) has identified the need to provide short term accommodation for mothers with critically sick infants who are hospitalized in the paediatric ward of the Hlabisa Hospital...
Uthando Spirit of Goodwill
6 Dec 2012
The Director, Prof Marie-Louise Newell and a team from the Africa Centre today paid a visit to the paediatric ward of the Hlabis Hospital for the annual Africa Centre presentation of toys and gifts to the children there, many of whom will be in hospital..
Evaluation of new tuberculosis diagnostic tests
31 Oct 2012
The September 2012 issue of the journal International Innovation http://www.research-europe.com/magazine/HEALTHCARE2/EX2/index.html. has an article about the work being done at the Africa Centre by Richard Lessells for his PhD...
HIV surrogate transmission
17 Aug 2012
This is the first proven HIV-1 surrogate transmission case in South Africa. It uses DNA sequencing and it is been published this week in one of the most respected medical journals in the world, the Lancet. This case highlights...
Summer school at Oxford
25 Jul 2012
The first Global Health Bioethics Network summer school took place in Oxford from 16-20 July 2012. Three staff members from Africa Centre were invited to attend this summer school at the Ethox Centre...
Life Technologies and SATuRN collaborate to increase access to HIV testing in Africa
23 Jul 2012
Antiretroviral drugs are becoming increasingly available in the developing world, due to facilitation by both governmental and non-governmental organizations, as well as reductions in price and international trade restrictions by pharmaceutical companies...
South African HIV patients on ART experience nearly complete recovery of employment
10 Jul 2012
HIV patients receiving antiretroviral therapy (ART) in the public sector treatment programme experienced nearly complete recovery of employment, a new study finds. ...
Virtual Leadership Development Program
10 May 2012
The HIV Treatment and Care Programme at Africa Centre would like to congratulate a team of senior coordinating staff that has successfully completed the Virtual Leadership Development Programme (VLDP)...
For she's a Jolly Good Fellow
10 May 2012
The Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies wishes to congratulate the Director Professor Marie-Louise Newell on receiving a few highly esteemed appointments with institutes abroad...
Africa Centre goes to Tin Town
11 Apr 2012
The Africa Centre TB /HCT team together with DoH TB team from Hlabisa Sub-district took the initiative to respond to the press release in the Zululand Observer and a report from caregivers that Tin Town community, based in Hluhluwe, was in dire need of health education services on prevention of infectious diseases...
UNAIDS welcomes Africa Centre evidence of the positive impact of antiretroviral therapy on preventing new HIV infections
12 Mar 2012
At the March 2012 CROI conference in Seattle, Prof Frank Tanser of the Africa Centre presented a paper by Tanser, Barnighausen, Grapsa and Newell entitled “Effect of ART coverage on rate of new HIV infections in a hyper-endemic, rural population: South Africa” after which UNAIDS issued the following Press release and statement...
Highly specialized team to tackle HIV drug resistance problem in southern Africa
14 Feb 2012
A small, highly specialized multidisciplinary team of doctors and statiticains from South Africa, Botswana, the USA and the UK will meet in Durban this weekend with the express purpose of ...
Africa Centre Graduates
14 Feb 2012
The year 2011 has been a great success in the area of Professional Development. We had 3 staff members who graduated in various fields of study...
A series of fortunate events
7 Feb 2012
As a student, procrastination becomes a way of life and everything is usually done at the eleventh hour...
Bursary student visits Africa Centre Virology Lab
6 Feb 2012
Miss Phindile Mabaso is a Grade 12 Bursary holder funded by the Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies...
Pathways to understanding HIV
13 Jan 2012
The Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies in South Africa is unpicking the causal pathways of HIV acquisition and transmission using in-depth demographic, behavioural, socioeconomic and geographic data...
6th Southern African HIV/TB Drug Resistance and Treatment Monotoring Workshop
4 Nov 2011
A group of renowned HIV and TB scientists, public health officials and physicians will meet at the University of Botswana in Gaborone, Monday 7 Nov and Tuesday 8 Nov to discuss the growing problem of HIV and TB drug resistance in southern Africa. This meeting is organised by the Botswana Ministry of Health in collaboration with Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies and the Southern African Treatment and Resistance Network...
Capacity building at Africa Centre
28 Oct 2011
In October 2011 the Kwa-Zulu Natal MEC for Health Dr Sibongiseni Dhlomo visited the district in order to learn more about the research activities being carried out. After a presentation by Frank Tanser about the research activities at the Centre, the MEC asked for details of the Capacity Building activities we have been and are engaged in.
Ubumbano Lwenstha Football and netball tournament 2011
19 Sep 2011
The 2011 Ubumbano Lwentsha Youth Engagement football and netball tournaments kicked off on the 4th of June..
Africa Centre in English literature!
19 Aug 2011
Earlier this year, in May 2011, a book was published entitled “Litmus, Short Stories from Modern Science”, edited by Ra Page, publisher Comma Press...
Patient acceptability of and satisfaction with HIV treatment and TB care services
25 Jul 2011
The epidemics of tuberculosis and Human Immuno-Deficiency Virus in sub-Saharan Africa often occur in the same population, with high prevalence levels leading to an increased demand of healthcare services...
Umthombo Wentsha - where is the risk for youth?
24 Jul 2011
Many young people acquire HIV in the years between entering secondary school and becoming an adult. There are many reasons for this risk: biological, social and cultural. In order to understand how to protect these youth...
Jiving with Science - an effective way of engaging the public
23 Jul 2011
Jiving with Science is a new public engagement initiative of the Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies. Africa Centre is an international HIV research facility with ...
Individuals living with HIV and infected individuals accessing HIV treatment 2010
22 Jul 2011
The first round of HIV surveillance in the DSA was carried out in 2003. during that time ART roll-out was very limited or almost non-existent in the area...
Community and Support Group Gardens
21 Jul 2011
The Hlabisa HIV Treatment and Care Programme, which is supported by the Africa Centre, is best known for providing counsellors, nurses, doctors and parkhomes to enable the diagnosis and treatment of HIV-positive patients...
Evaluation of the Indlovu Village housing development
20 Jul 2011
Shelter is identified as a basic need to every human being in South Africa. The South African Government went a step further, after democratic government elections in 1994...
Contributions of the Africa Centre Demographic Surveillance to the community
19 Jul 2011
The Africa Centre is engaged in two major surveillance projects. The first is the demographic surveillance which tracks 90,000 people who are members of...
Effect of concurrent sexual partnerships
18 Jul 2011
Scientists from the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s Africa Centre conducted a large 5-year study that found that it is the overall number of sexual partners, rather than whether they are concurrent, that increases the risk of HIV transmission...
New waiting areas at all ART clinics
18 Jul 2011
The Hlabisa HIV Treatment and Care Programme, a collaboration between the Africa entre and the local Department of Health...
Africa Centre honours Zulu King
15 Jul 2011
Putting the might of the Zulu assegai behind HIV/AIDS research, His Majesty King Goodwill Zwelithini accepted the honour...
Five million scanned questionnaires now in Africa Centre Document Archive!
9 Jul 2011
The Africa Centre has, since it began its regular surveillance in 2000, generated a huge volume of paper questionnaires. In recent years we have been printing approximately 110,000 sheets per month...
Africa Centre take SA AIDS Conference by storm
20 Jun 2011
The 5th South African AIDS Conference took place from 7-10 June 2011 at the International Convention Centre in Durban, South Africa...
Remote lab slugs it out with HIV
10 Apr 2011
For two decades, an area near Hlabisa and Mtubatuba, in rural northern KwaZulu-Natal, has been a research focus where science and the community work together. Liz Clarke spoke to a scientist at the forefront of this quest for knowledge...
Spreading the word while jiving
18 Mar 2011
Jiving with Science is a new public engagement initiative of the Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies...
Youth not scared of HIV/AIDS
16 Feb 2011
A study conducted by the Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies has revealed that fewer females than males use condoms...
Depression during pregnancy study
11 Feb 2011
Local research of pregnant women shows that most had not planned their pregnancy and almost half were diagnosed with...
Condomise message fails to get across
11 Feb 2011
Despite millions of rands haveing been poured into promoting the use of condoms to prevent...
Kesho Bora Study results
14 Jan 2011
New evidence published in Lancet Infectious Diseases shows safety and efficacy of combination antiretroviral drugs during pregnancy, delivery and breastfeeding and supports the 2010 revised WHO guidelines...
AIDS breakthrough hopes welcomed
10 Dec 2010
News that the Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies is to roll out a treatment programme that could ultimately lead to ending...
Celebrating 10 Years of Scientific Research Excellence
