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Local prof gets Lifetime award for HIV research
Dr Gita Ramjee, University of Kwa-Zulu Natal (UKZN) alumnus and head of Aids Research at the South African Medical Research Council (MRC), has received the Lifetime Achievement award at the 2012 International Microbicide conference in Sydney, Australia. The award was presented to Ramjee and Dr Lut Van Damme from FHI 360 in North Carolina, USHealth Department to spend five times more on research
The Health Department will spend 2 percent of the national health budget to fund research within the next three years.Glow-in-the-dark felines: The ‘cat’s meow’ of HIV research
A glow-in-the-dark cat-slash-monkey hybrid... Sounds like something that a mad creator unleashes, which inevitably ends up terrorizing Tokyo.
You would be incorrect if you thought that this is the plot for the latest sci-fi movie. The glow-in-the-dark moggies are in fact helping scientists understand how to block the HI-virus from establishing itself in the body.
So what do you get when you cross a cat with a monkey and a jellyfish?
Bad reporting: Revealing the real scourge
An error ridden article by the South African Press Association (SAPA) has been used by various newspapers to report on a particular HIV-related landmark development.Taking the tribulation out of interpreting medical trials
Coverage of microbicide trials has at times been characterised by hostility and cynicism on the part of journalists. This is mainly a result of their misunderstanding the technical ins and outs of clinical trials.Page 1 of 1 pages
