Meet the team: #CIDRITeam Contributing Investigator Dr Georgia Schäfer's research interests include host-pathogen interactions of Kaposi’s sarcoma herpesvirus and human papillomavirus, particularly in the context of HIV co-infection.

Worldwide, fungal diseases and antimicrobial-resistant fungi are increasing. In honor of Fungal Disease Awareness Week, learn about fungal diseases and raise awareness to help reduce the harmful effects of fungal diseases: https://bit.ly/4dyCy6u #FungalWeek25

Dr Fungus is my superhero name 😉 (In "the old days", yours truly studied seed pathology though, not human mycoses)

Meet the team: A/Prof. Ursula Rohlwink. Her research interests include: tuberculous meningitis, specifically brain biomarkers of disease severity and prognosis, and mechanisms of brain injury. #CIDRITeam

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Join Dr Adeniyi Olagunju, from the University of Liverpool's Perinatal Pharmacology group, for webinar 'Unlocking Access to Individual-Level Pharmacokinetic Data via PKRxiv'. 📆 30 September 2025 ⏰ 12-1pm (BST) 💻 Online Find out more and register via the link: www.liverpool.ac.uk/centre-of-ex...

Learner Documentaries Coming Soon! 🎬🫣 We recently hosted a recruitment session for learners from Ikamvayouthsa, Masiphumelele in Fish Hoek. We look forward to working with the learners in creating health-related stories and documentaries within our communities.

Our September issue is now online: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... Our journal is #OpenAccess, so you are free to explore all of our content. But these hashtags offer a flavour: #SARS-CoV-2 #HIV #Pneumocystis #tuberculosis #TB #gonorrhoea #Citrobacter #AMR #Salmonella #IDSky #ClinMicro #OA

We have our line-up for our 24-hour AIDS research livestream on September 16/17th: saveaidsresearch.org Allison Agwu, MD, SCM • Ali Ahmed, PhD • Frederick Altice, MD • Annukka Antar, MD, PhD • Shashika Bandara, MSc • Katie Bar, MD • Joshua Barocas, MD • Rachel Bender Ignacio, MD, MPH 1/

CBS video and text: NIH whistleblower Jeanne Marrazzo details clash over childhood vaccines with Trump administration: "We became inconvenient" 👉 cbsn.ws/3IcWNwc

📣 The IAS is proud to support #24hourstosaveAIDSresearch! Join us 16 September starting at 17:00 CEST to learn what #HIV research has achieved through US federal investments & what we stand to lose. ✅ Register: zurl.co/0U0kk ▶️ Or join us on YouTube: zurl.co/ZvTLg

Meet the team: #CIDRITeam Contributing Investigator Dr Catherine Riou. Research interests: Infectious diseases (HIV/TB), immune memory, antigen-specific responses, T cell differentiation, cytokines, signal transduction and T cell lineage commitment.

Meet the Team: #CIDRITeam member A/Prof. Joe Raimondo. His research interests include the pathophysiology of epilepsy; and the study of brain function and dysfunction using electrophysiological, optical imaging and computational approaches.

Your weekend reads from #CIDRIPapers: first up, "Population Pharmacokinetics of Rifampicin in Plasma and Cerebrospinal Fluid in Adults With [TB] Meningitis" academic.oup.com/jid/article/...;

#ThrowbackThursday: In 1980 the 🌍🌎🌏 was declared #smallpox free, thanks to mass vaccination efforts. Smallpox was an acute contagious disease caused by the variola virus. It was one of the most devastating diseases known to humanity. #VaccinesWork

Epi & Biostats students, join us for a lively and educational Bingo Break Time! 🗓️ Date: Wednesday 3 September 🕑 Time: 12pm to 1h30pm 📍 Location: Frances Ames Lecture Theatre 📩 RSVP by 27 August to [email protected]

Meet the team: #CIDRITeam Contributing Investigator Dr Catherine Riou. Research interests: Infectious diseases (HIV/TB), immune memory, antigen-specific responses, T cell differentiation, cytokines, signal transduction and T cell lineage commitment.

Meet the team: #CIDRITeam Contributing Investigator Prof. Jo-Ann Passmore. Her research interests lie in HIV/HPV mucosal immunology, the genital tract, innate immunity, cytokine biomarkers, and genital tract immune activation.

A clinical practice guideline for tuberculous meningitis Tuberculous Meningitis International Research Consortium www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... 🔒

Look out for #CIDRITeam members Suraj Parihar (Infectious Diseases, Poster Walk, Poster Area Wed 20/08, 12:15 – 13:45) & Rudi Hazra (Cross-discipline, Poster Walk, Poster Area, Wed 20/08, 12:15 – 13:45; Innate Immunity Symposium, Hall N2 (Level 1), Fri 22/08, 10:30 – 12:00) #IUIS2025

Meet the Team: #CIDRITeam Contributing Investigator A/Prof. Tolullah Oni. Her research interests include health services research, particularly in the context of co-morbidities between common infectious and non-communicable diseases.

Look out for #CIDRITeam members Suraj Parihar (Infectious Diseases, Poster Walk, Poster Area Wed 20/08, 12:15 – 13:45) & Rudi Hazra (Cross-discipline, Poster Walk, Poster Area, Wed 20/08, 12:15 – 13:45; Innate Immunity Symposium, Hall N2 (Level 1), Fri 22/08, 10:30 – 12:00) #IUIS2025

🌍 In just 4 days, #Vienna will become the capital of #GlobalImmunology. Plenaries. Masterclasses. Symposia. Networking. Inspiration. Don’t just watch the conversation—be part of it. 🔗 Register for a day or the full week https://loom.ly/CwagY2g#Vienna#GlobalImmunology#RoadtoVienna #ImmunologyWithoutBorders #IUIS2025

My new @forbes.com piece is about the critical importance of NIH and it's impactful Fogarty program Small Investment, Big Returns: Why This NIH Center Matters www.forbes.com/sites/madhuk...

🧪As part of #NationalScienceWeek, our Division teamed up with Cape Town libraries to host 100+ learners for interactive sessions on #Epidemiology & #Biostatistics through games on contact tracing and data analysis. 👉Swipe to see the pics and more info about the event. @uct-fhs-research.bsky.social

Meet the team: #CIDRITeam Contributing Investigator Prof. Ntobeko Ntusi is President & CEO of the SA Medical Research Council; his research interests include cardiomyopathies, inflammatory heart disease and hypertension in Africans.

8th Annual Advanced TB Research Training Course online via Uni of Washington, September 8-12. Will include our own Robert J Wilkinson & Gary Maartens. FREE for people residing in LMICs. Registration open now: courses.washington.edu/tbresearchco...

Congratulations to Dr Rachael Dangarembizi on her TW Kambule-NSTF Award in the Emerging Researcher category "for advancing neuroinfectious disease research, securing major funding, mentoring future scientists, and earning global recognition for her groundbreaking work on cryptococcal meningitis"!

Meet the Team: #CIDRITeam Contributing Investigator Prof. Mpiko Ntsekhe's research interests include cardiovascular disease and tuberculous pericarditis. He is the Hellen and Morris Mauerberger Professor and Chair of Cardiology at UCT, and Head of the Cardiac Clinic at Groote Schuur Hospital.

Congratulations to Dr Rachael Dangarembizi on her TW Kambule-NSTF Award in the Emerging Researcher category "for advancing neuroinfectious disease research, securing major funding, mentoring future scientists, and earning global recognition for her groundbreaking work on cryptococcal meningitis"!

TB is the leading cause of disease of people living with HIV. TB can only be be beaten through the development of new vaccines to prevent TB infection and disease, quicker diagnostic tools and shorter, more effective drugs to cure. @stoptb.bsky.social; @cidri-africa.bsky.social; @who.int;

Meet the team: #CIDRITeam Contributing Investigator Prof. Landon Myer. Research interests: infectious diseases (HIV/AIDS, TB and sexually transmitted infections); women’s health; social determinants of health buff.ly/3V0F6Bt

Meet the team: #CIDRITeam Contributing Investigator Dr Munya Musvosvi's research interests lie in immune factors associated with risk of developing disease that will inform TB vaccine and biomarker design.

The manacles of intellectual tyranny are largely invisible. They look like a comfortable manor house in Tuscany, or a lab that's working on the fringes of the subject they want to study, but know they can't publish on. Under their breath, as they labor at the bench: "Eppur si muove."

"Eppur si muove" is Italian for "And yet it moves". It's a phrase made famous by accounts of Galileo Galilei's comments after he was forced by the Inquisition to recant his heretical findings in 1633 that the Earth moved around the Sun & was not the center of all being, perfect & motionless.

Today at #IAS2025: #CIDRITeam member Carolyn Williamson will present on "HIV escape and resistance: Implication for broadly neutralising antibody strategies" - session SAT36, venue AD12, time 18:00-19:30. theprogramme.ias2025.org/PAGMaterial/...

We have both old & new #HIV challenges according to Jeanne Marrazzo, speaking in her personal capacity at #IAS2025. But she stated that ‘we cannot compromise when we’ve come so far. We cannot lose heart.’ @iasociety.bsky.social

"We are now in the phase of coping, adapting and innovating" - IAS Executive Director Birgit Poniatowski explains where we are at as a global HIV community after many other stages of grief dealing with funding cuts 🇨🇭 #IAS2025 IAS Members' Meeting

At #IAS2025 today: #CIDRITeam member Trevor Mnguni presents his poster on "Outcomes of pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP) in people living with HIV (PLHIV) in a high HIV/TB prevalence South African population" (WEPEB027, Session B4). Meet Trevor from 12:15-13:15. programme.ias2025.org/Abstract/Abs...

☀️ Get ready for another big day at #IAS2025! Over 35 sessions are in store today in #Kigali and virtually – from #HIV cure strategies to community innovation. 📨 Preview what’s ahead in today’s Daily Digest!

Tomorrow at #IAS2025: #CIDRITeam member Carolyn Williamson will present on "HIV escape and resistance: Implication for broadly neutralising antibody strategies" - session SAT36, venue AD12, time 18:00-19:30. theprogramme.ias2025.org/PAGMaterial/...

At #IAS2025 tomorrow: #CIDRITeam member Trevor Mnguni presents his poster on "Outcomes of pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP) in people living with HIV (PLHIV) in a high HIV/TB prevalence South African population" (WEPEB027, Session B4) programme.ias2025.org/Abstract/Abs...

MUST READ | TB can be cured, but ridding the body of the bug often takes many months. In this Spotlight special briefing, @elri-voigt.bsky.social zoom in on what makes the TB bacterium so hard to beat. www.spotlightnsp.co.za/2025/07/14/i...

Sobering study on the devastating impact of aid cuts on tuberculosis incidence and mortality in low and middle income countries Governments of highest TB burden nations will need to wake up and invest more! www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Meet the team: #CIDRITeam Contributing Investigator Prof. Marc Mendelson, head of the Division of Infectious Diseases and HIV Medicine at UCT Faculty of Health Sciences and director of The Trinity Challenge. His research interests include AMR, infection prevention and management, and OneHealth.

Minister of Health Aaron Motsoaledi has announced that the National Treasury will be releasing R753-million to help cover the PEPFAR funding shortfall. Read groundup.org.za/article/Trea... by Liezl Human

📅 Upcoming deadline: Submit a poster abstract for the SPH Research Day taking place on 18 September 2025. 🖱️ For more information visit: health.uct.ac.za/school-publi... #epidemiology #biostatistics #research #data

Meet the Team: #CIDRITeam Contributing Investigator Prof. Darren Martin. Research interests: using computational recombination-analysis tools his group is searching for recombination hot- and cold-spots in the genomes of all virus families.

Hot off the presses in The Lancet: Building a resistance to US assaults on public health. With Alicia Ely Yamin and Emma Joanna Lengle. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Meet the team: #CIDRITeam Contributing Investigator Dr Mohlopheni Marakalala, Director of the SU/SAMRC Centre for Tuberculosis Research. His research interests include: host factors driving immunopathogenesis during #TB progression; mycobacterial genes for host survival.