Posted on June 27, 2023
Nutrition and growth in the First 1000 Days set the stage for lifelong health. Healthcare providers need to work together to ensure continuity of care and optimal outcomes – midwives, obstetricians, paediatricians, dietitians and primary healthcare providers, it’s time to step outside...
Posted on June 12, 2023
In utero HIV exposure with placental insufficiency increases risk of stunting in 18-month old infants Mothusi Nyofane, a PhD candidate worked on the UmbiGodisa study, a research project at our Centre looking at the infant anthropometrical outcomes at 18 months according to HIV-exposure and...
Posted on June 05, 2023
Our Research Centre is a group of clinicians, academics and researchers who form a multidisciplinary team from the fields of obstetrics, paediatrics, nutrition, immunology and physiotherapy. Today Marna Nel, a physiotherapist, presented at the World Physiotherapy Conference in Dubai on an infant...
Posted on June 02, 2023
Join the JBI gLOCAL solution room on *Adolescent Health* - a collaborative session hosted from South Africa and India. Let us share about joint challenges in adolescent health issues in our different contexts. Date: 9 June 2023 from 10h00 - 13h30 (South African Standard Time) Registration link:...
Posted on May 11, 2023
Prof Priya Soma-Pillay was a contributor to this new and very import resource on pre-term birth: Born too soon: decade of action. The report outlines the fact that 1 in 10 babies are born pre-term and this has not improved in the last decade in any region of the world and prematurity is the...
Posted on May 09, 2023
IMNHC2023 - as part of the country delegation at the South African stand - collectively we will reduce Maternal, Fetal and Newborn mortality!
Posted on May 08, 2023
Our Research Centre Director is at the International Maternal Newborn Health Conference, which is taking place in Cape Town this week (IMNCH2023.org). Our work on stillbirth prevention and fetal growth restriction using the Umbiflow, a hand-held low-cost device which can be used at primary...
Posted on May 04, 2023
Prof Priya Soma-Pillay and Dr Louisa Seopela attended the Prebic Global Meeting (conference on preterm birth), in Dubrovnik, Croatia from April 24-26, 2023. Prof Soma-Pillay gave a presentation on "Single embryo transfer - the power of one".
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