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Unitaid and partners cut cost of portable AI-compatible X-ray device, bringing TB screening closer to communities

May 20, 2025: Unitaid and the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) today announced a new agreement to dramatically lower the price and improve access to a battery-operated, ultraportable digital ch...
The Aurum Institute awarded grant by NIH for Clinical Trials Unit

JOHANNESBURG, 1 DECEMBER 2020 - The Aurum Institute has been awarded a seven-year grant by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for a Clinical Trials Unit (CTU) to drive the scientific agendas of t...
New Research Hub Launched to Study Health and Social Impact of Mining and Migration in Royal Bafokeng Nation

JOHANNESBURG, 27 November 2024. The BAMMISHO Node, or Bafokeng Health & Demographic Surveillance System (HDSS), has been officially launched as the latest South African Population Research Infrast...
International Nurses Day 2025: Caring that goes beyond the call of duty

Every morning, when Nondumiso Ncanana puts on her nurse’s uniform, she knows she’s not just starting another shift—she’s stepping into the lives of individuals and families facing one of South...
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...
Clinical Trials Reveal Promising Alternatives to High-Toxicity Tuberculosis Drug

Research shows two novel antibiotics could spare patients from severe side effects. Johannesburg, 01.07.2025 – Two international clinical studies led by PD Dr Norbert Heinrich at the Institute of I...
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...
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...
TB Prevention in People With HIV: How Short Can We Go?

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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...
Call to action for an invigorated drive to scale up TB prevention

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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...
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...
Aurum's Kathy Mngadi on Metro FM's The Kings Suite

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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...
South Africa must heed the lessons learnt from the Covid-19 pandemic on health research and development

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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...
Aurum training programme helps healthcare managers deliver quality service

The AURUM Institute has upskilled more than 800 healthcare managers through its Management Development Programme (MDP), empowering them with practical training on running facilities to ensure quality ...
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...