Siyakhula - Our first patient that competed the Siyakhula Study

Posted on October 12, 2020

Siyakhula - Our first patient that competed the Siyakhula Study (for confidentiality the names are being withheld) Patient X with her 2-year-old son

South Africa needs a plan to protect children’s health beyond COVID-19

Posted on October 12, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has been a head-on challenge to even the most solid health systems in the world. In South Africa its onset collided with the already existing quadruple burden of disease. The country faces epidemics of HIV and tuberculosis (TB); non-communicable diseases such as hypertension...

SAMRC MERIT Awards 2019

Posted on November 13, 2019

Professor Robert Pattinson has been the Director of the SAMRC/University of Pretoria Maternal and Infant Health Care Strategies Research Unit since 1998. This is one of the oldest Extramural Research Units of the South African Medical Research Council.

Faculty Day 2019

Posted on August 18, 2019

The main purpose of the Faculty of Health Sciences Faculty Day is to give researchers, post- and undergraduate students the opportunity to present their research findings to the Faculty. Research is presented in the form of poster exhibitions and oral and poster presentations. The theme of...

The SAMRC celebrates its 50th Anniversary on 1 July 2019.

Posted on July 01, 2019

A great deal has been achieved over the past few decades and the organization is now one of the world’s leaders in conducting and funding health research.

Siyakhula Collaborative Workshop

Posted on May 17, 2019

The purpose of the workshop was to bring together a group of multidisciplinary health scientists, clinicians, public health stakeholders, and people with lived experience to build capacity for research and training in HIV-infection and women’s and infants’ health across geographical...

Kangaroo Mother Care: UP’s low-tech solution is saving premature babies

Posted on April 27, 2019

Premature babies all over Africa and in developing countries around the world have a greater chance of survival today thanks to the work of University of Pretoria (UP) researchers. Drs Anne-Marie Bergh, Elise van Rooyen and colleagues have been tirelessly promoting the benefits of Kangaroo Mother...

UP launches new Centre for mother and child health

Posted on April 01, 2019

After 20 years of contributing to the lives of pregnant women, newborn babies and infants; the South African Medical Research Council's (MRC’s) Maternal and Infant Health Care Strategies Unit will finally become a fully-fledged centre of the University of Pretoria (UP). A vision of Prof...