Posted on November 22, 2020
Locally made ultrasound device helping to reduce perinatal deaths
Posted on November 05, 2020
With nearly 20,000 perinatal deaths in South Africa each year, a locally developed low-cost device has been shown to reduce deaths by 40%, inspiring hope.
Posted on October 31, 2020
Portable continuous wave Doppler ultrasound for primary healthcare in South Africa: can the EUnetHTA Core Model guide evaluation before technology adoption?
Posted on October 31, 2020
Dr Tsakane Hlongwane is a Tuks Young Researcher Leader Programme fellow (TYRLP) and has received a SAMA supplementary scholarship for her PhD. Umbiflow in SA - Dr TMAG Hlongwane: Completed recruitment of more than 7,000 patients in South Africa. Her abstract was accepted for presentation at...
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...
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
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.
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...
Posted on July 15, 2019
Pretoria - The 20th anniversary of the Kangaroo Mother Care unit at Kalafong Hospital was marked by praise and applause from mothers whose children benefited from the project. The project is part of the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Pretoria, which serves the neonatal...
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.
Posted on July 01, 2019
A stillbirth is defined as a fetus being born with no signs of life at or after 28 weeks of pregnancy. Stillbirths are a global problem with approximately 2.6 million deaths being recorded in 2016, with the largest proportion of stillbirths occurring in low and middle-income countries.
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...
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...
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...
Posted on March 27, 2019
For most doctors in training, obstetrics is hectic and too busy, but for Dr Felicia Molokoane it is a calling. Her bold career choice has led to her being part of groundbreaking research on the effects of HIV treatment on the growth of babies. “When I did my internship, none of the...
Posted on February 01, 2019
Prof Ute Feucht is invited to the 11th International Workshop on HIV Pediatrics, on 19 and 20 July 2019, in Mexico, Mexico City. The Pediatrics Workshop is the only international platform entirely devoted to research in the prevention and treatment of HIV in infants, children, adolescents, and...
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