UP EXPERT OPINION: Malaria elimination can be attained through transdisciplinary and sustained programmes – UP Institute for Sustainable Malaria Control

Posted on April 25, 2022

The UP ISMC focuses on the human, parasite and vector aspects when addressing malaria control and elimination challenges, and is already making tangible contributions towards mitigating malaria through several approaches.

Occupational Therapy Students Learn Importance of Community Liaison in Mamelodi to Enhance Service Delivery

Posted on March 31, 2022

Fourth-year Occupational Therapy students, work with different communities in the City of Tshwane.

World TB Awareness Month: ‘It’s time to refocus research efforts to eradicate TB’ – UP professor of internal medicine

Posted on March 24, 2022

“It’s time to regain the momentum lost in our fight towards the eradication of TB.” – UP’s Prof Veronica Ueckermann on renewing research efforts to end TB, which have largely been sidelined by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Importance of Occupational Therapy Intervention Programmes for Substance Users

Posted on March 23, 2022

Substance use has become a societal problem and the identification of substance use disorders and addictive behaviours are expanding worldwide.

World Down Syndrome Day, Inclusion Means #InclusiveHealth

Posted on March 20, 2022

Patients with Down syndrome (DS) require continuous access to quality health #InclusiveHealth. Approximately 1 out of every 800 babies are born with Down syndrome worldwide. They have three, instead of two, copies of chromosome 21.

Tuks Leadership and Individual Programme host Health Day in Mamelodi

Posted on March 14, 2022

Tuks Leadership and Individual Programme (TULIP) in collaboration with the Faculty of Health Sciences hosted a holistic Health Day at Tsako Thabo Secondary School based in Mamelodi on 5 and 12 March 2022.

Influx of COVID-19 paediatric cases in early Omicron stages put pressure on Tshwane hospitals – UP study finds

Posted on March 03, 2022

A multidisciplinary study led by two University of Pretoria (UP) researchers has found that Tshwane District hospitals were under immense pressure to provide clinical services in the face of an influx of paediatric patients (under 19 years old) during the early stages of the COVID-19 Omicron wave...

UP Department of Physiology MSc Student Triumphs at the African Inclusive Microscopy Symposium

Posted on March 03, 2022

Masters student from the Department of Physiology, Charlise Basson, won first place for Best Oral Presentation in the light microscopy category during the International African Inclusive Microscopy Symposium (AfInMic) - Student Microscopy Symposium 2021, which was hosted on 29 November - 3...