In 2001, at the age of 22, Vuyiseka Dubula-Majola joined the Treatment Action Campaign in its fight to bring antiretrovirals to South Africa. Today, she walks the streets of Geneva in Switzerland to get to her job as head of the Global Fund’s community, rights and gender department. Biénne Huis.
20 October 2023, Johannesburg – At an awards ceremony this week, the Discovery Foundation announced the recipients of its medical research and training grants for 2022 and 2023.
Prof Valerie Mizrahi, a world-leading tuberculosis researcher and director of the Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine at the University of Cape Town, is retiring at the end of the year. Biénne Huisman sat down with Mizrahi to talk about her journey in TB research, passing the.
In December 2008, Dr Mark Blaylock left South Africa after a high-profile spat with the then KwaZulu-Natal health MEC, Peggy Nkonyeni. The affair was sparked by Blaylock’s colleague, Colin Pfaff, being charged with misconduct for sourcing funding for antiretroviral drugs for pregnant women livi.