From Centre to Institute: chronicling five years of achievements

Posted on June 03, 2016

The establishment of the University of Pretoria Institute for Sustainable Malaria Control (UP ISMC) was approved by the UP Senate on Thursday, 2 June 2016.

Employing the arts in the fight against malaria

Posted on May 24, 2016

A group of drama students from UP recently had the opportunity to perform an educational play on malaria at two rural primary schools in HaMakuya, a village in the Vhembe District of Limpopo.

Saying 'goodbye' to malaria for good

Posted on April 21, 2016

The MRC/UP CSMC and the Goodbye Malaria Foundation has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the aim of collaborating on research towards the elimination of malaria in southern Mozambique and South Africa.

Key information on Zika virus and South Africa

Posted on February 05, 2016

Prof Leo Braack from the Zoonoses Research Unit and the Department of Medical Virology at UP, says that South Africans should be made aware that, in terms of Zika virus, there is no cause for panic in this country.