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Maurice Info Search The eLife journal has published an article titled « A Mechanistic Model for long-term Immunological outcomes in South African HIV-infected Children and Adults receiving ART », following a recent study. Led by Eva Liliane Ujeneza, AIMS alumna and PhD researcher affiliated to AIMS and the South African Center of Excellence for Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis (SACEMA) in Cape Town,the article combines clinical data and mathematical analysis to understand how T cell numbers are affected by infection and treatment at different ages. « The HIV global pandemic is ...

SA researchers unveil national Covid-19 dashboard By Sisonke Mlamla Share Cape Town - A multi-disciplinary team of researchers from some of the country’s universities and civil society have put their heads together to develop a Covid-19 dashboard to analyse the resurgence risk, monitor hospital admissions and present other essential data relating to the pandemic. The dashboard was unveiled by the South African Covid-19 Modelling Consortium (SACMC) as its new SACMC epidemic explorer to enable the public to assess the Covid-19 risk level in any district in the country. The consortium facil...

Cynthia Ngwalo Lungu Our way of life, culture and traditions are rooted on valuable communal concepts and proximity to one another. It thus presents the perfect environment for further transmission of COVID-19. The question, therefore, is no longer whether Africa, and particularly southern Africa, is prepared to tackle the coronavirus Governments must critically assess and address the loopholes in the health system to ensure the development of a robust and resilient health sector that can deliver health to all; a health sector that can deal with all the public health emergencies of our time a...