UP does everything it can to kill one of the biggest killers in South Africa

Tuberculosis (TB) kills more people every year than HIV/AIDS or any other single infectious agent. This statistic seems criminal considering that if the disease is diagnosed and treated timeously, most patients can be cured. Diagnosis and treatment.

Professor Bernard Fourie

March 26, 2018

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Professor Bernard Fourie

Professor Bernard Fourie has served as the Director of the Tuberculosis Research Institute and the National TB Research Programme of the Medical Research Council (MRC) before joining the UP in 2009 as a Research Professor (Extraordinary). He is a Principal Investigator in the MRC Clinical Research Unit for Tuberculosis Biomarker-Targeted Interventions of the South African Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative at the University of Cape Town. He acts as international advisor and consultant on interventions for TB and HIV for the World Health Organization and UNITAID, and is a member of the International Council of the Autophagy, Inflammation and Metabolism (AIM) Center of Excellence at the University of New Mexico, USA.

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