Current News
14 Dec 2009 Microbicide Development Programme 301 Trial results
The MDP Trial results have been made available... ...read more
1 Dec 2009: Bill Gates meets with postgraduate students from Africa Centre
Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, visited the University of KwaZulu-Natal and met with post graduate students from the Africa Centre... ...read more
27 Nov 2009: The First Lady visits the Africa Centre
The First Lady, Mama Mantuli Zuma, visited the Africa Centre to have lunch with the Centre director, prof. Marie-Louise Newell... ...read more
30 Nov 2009: Football and Netball Finals
More than 250 people watched the final football and netball matches of the Africa Centre's Ubumbano Lwentsha project on Sunday 29 November... ...read more
12 Nov 2009: Africa Centre Researchers collaborate
Africa Centre Researchers collaborated on the organization and presentation of the 4th South African HIV Drug Resistance and Treatment Monitoring Workshop. To see the full report of the workshop and workshop presentation slides please visit www.bioafrica.net
12 Oct 2009: Bilharzia infection high in rural areas of Zululand
One in five primary school children in rural Zululand is infected with bilharzia. One in 10 is heavily infected... ...read more
8 Oct 2009: Orphans and Vulnerable Children Project
Africa Centre's ART programme started a sub-programme of support group which aims at supporting people living with HIV. This support comes in form of... ...read more
1 Oct 2009: 700,000 forms destroyed in Africa Centre's document scanning project
Since the Africa Centre began collecting information, nearly 10 years ago, at the very start of the millenium, we have accumulated over 12 million paper questionnaires, and this number grows by about 110,000 every month... ...read more
21 Sep 2009: A girl of substance
Against all odds, Nokuthula Mhlongo strove to provide for her poverty-stricken family - and now she has been rewarded... ...read more
11 Sep 2009: Mhlongo Project Close-out report
The completed project was officially ommissioned and handed over to the Mhlongo family at a function held on Friday the 11th of September 2009. The event was officiated by the Africa Centre Deputy Director, Dr Kobus Herbst and the representative of Induna Phinias Mkhwanazi, Councillor Mkhwanazi...
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11 Sep 2009: Maternal and Child Health Research
This pamphlet was developed to highlight existing maternal and child health research agendas at the Africa Centre and to stimulate interest in the work that we do in this area... ...read more
17 Aug 2009: TB increase in Hlabisa area
Tuberculosis is on the increase in the Hlabisa sub-district of Umkhanyakude. Over the past few years, Africa Centre and the Department of Health researchers... ...read more
7 Aug 2009: Womens Day Supplement
Eleven years ago, in 1998 a group of researchers from Durban came together with a set of ideas relating to population-based research... ...read more
24 Jul 2009: Need for rural cancer awareness
Cancer caused only 3% of deaths in the Mpukunyoni tribal area between 2000-2007. However there is a need for greater awareness of the ... ...read more
30 Jun 2009: Hlabisa Case Book in TB & HIV Medicine
A series of cases prepared by doctors at Hlabisa hospital based on real patients that presented and were managed at Hlabisa has just been published with the financial assistance of USAID, PEPFAR, CIM and Africa Centre. The cases include... ...read more
26 Jun 2009: Sponsored Learnership
The Africa Centre has sponsored 10 children from various schools in the DSA to attend Winter School... ...read more
Celebrating 10 Years of Scientific Research Excellence
