Each year on 4 February, WHO and International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) supports Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) to promote ways to ease the global burden of cancer. This year, WHO has featured an article detailing the comprehensive cancer prevention plan that was implimented in Cuba, following their reccomendations, that ensures universal …
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Professor Barry Schoub received the African Society for Laboratory Medicine (ASLM) Lifetime Achievement Award, which recognises an exceptional individual whose contributions to laboratory science have made a positive impact on public health. Prof Schoub, is the former Executive Director of the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) and post retirement serves as senior consultant and …
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On December 4, 2012, the United States President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) announced an additional $11 million to provide up to 150 Xpert® MTB/RIF instruments and 450,000 test cartridges in 14 high-burden countries across sub-Saharan Africa and in Burma. The Cepheid Xpert® MTB/RIF assay is a new fully automated molecular diagnostic test for …
Approximately 1,500 laboratory professionals, clinicians, programme managers, epidemiologists, researchers, students, and policy makers from around the world convened in Cape Town, South Africa from December 1-7, 2012 for the first International Conference of the African Society for Laboratory Medicine (ASLM). Under the theme “Accurate Laboratory Diagnostics – A Pillar of Quality Health Care,” healthcare professionals and …
On 3 December 2012, Roche Diagnostics and the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) announced a public-private partnership to improve the capacity of laboratorians and strengthen laboratory systems in African nations highly impacted by HIV/AIDS. Valued at $10 million over five years, the goal of the partnership is to build institutional capacity of …
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PRESS RELEASE WORLD AIDS DAY – THE NHLS WAY 27 November 2012 – As the world commemorates World Aids Day on the 1st of December, The National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS) increases focus on research and diagnosis of HIV/AIDS. This has led to many successes for the global war against HIV/AIDS. After many years of …
A new home has been built at Stellenbosch University (SU) to accommodate the increasing number of activities around its HIV and AIDS projects and growing student numbers. The new building allows the Africa Centre to broaden its scope in terms of teaching and learning, research and community interaction relating to the HIV and AIDS pandemic, …
Historical Site Makes History: New Home For Africa Centre For HIV And AIDS Management Read More »
In Response to The Minister of Health and his national TB Program Team; A team was developed within the NHLS to execute the National department of Health’s plan for a rapid Molecular diagnosis of TB: this is their story as written my team members. Click here
THE SOUTH AFRICAN PROGRAMME TO PREVENT MOTHER-TO-CHILD TRANSMISSION OF HIV (PMTCT) For the 2012 report "The evaluation of the early infant diagnosis service in primary health care facilities in South Africa: Report on results of a situational assessment", click here
Two bright young scientists from the National Health Laboratory Service’s (NHLS) National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) have brought the world a step closer to a possible HIV vaccine. Professor Lynn Morris, head of the NICD’s AIDS Research, and Dr Penny Moore, senior scientist in the NICD’s Centre for HIV and Sexually Transmitted Infections, were …
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