Research News

  • 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.

  • Three L'Oreal Fellowships awarded to UP researchers

    Posted on December 07, 2015

    One staff member and two PhD students from the University of Pretoria won three of the twelve fellowships awarded by the 2015 L'Oréal-UNESCO for Women in Science Sub-Saharan Africa 2015 programme.

  • PhD student in malaria wins presenters trophy

    Posted on December 07, 2015

    Mr Shehu S Awandu, a PhD student at the University of Pretoria Centre for Sustainable Malaria Control (UP CSMC) won the trophy as best presenter at the Limpopo Provincial Health Research day held in Polokwane in November 2015.

  • Empowering communities to beat malaria

    Posted on November 17, 2015

    Dr Taneshka Kruger, from the UP CSMC is very passionate about eliminating malaria in South Africa, and eventually in Africa as a whole and has been involved in research on the subject for a number of years.

  • Education towards the elimination of malaria

    Posted on October 29, 2015

    The University of Pretoria Centre for Sustainable Malaria Control (UP CSMC) Student Forum, in collaboration with the Faculty of Education at UP, recently presented a seminar titled 'Education towards malaria elimination'.

  • MoU paves the way for collaboration towards malaria research and elimination

    Posted on October 26, 2015

    The University of Pretoria Centre for Sustainable Malaria Control (UP CSMC) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Chinese National Institute of Parasitic Diseases (China CDC).

  • Satellites to aid in the fight against malaria

    Posted on July 20, 2015

    Research activities between the UP CSMC and French partners will focus on the expansion of predictive malaria-risk maps to investigate the impacts of climate variability and changes on the occurrence and intensity of malaria epidemics.

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