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The
Clinical Trials Unit
The Clinical Trials Unit has been conducting Phase II and Phase III HIV-related drug trials since 1996. Until the summer of 2003 the unit was based in Somerset Hospital in Old Cape Town, but then moved to its current site in the grounds of the University of Cape Town’s Medical Campus in
Observatory....more |
| Dr
Jennifer Pitt at the Clinical Trials Unit at the Medical
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Vaccine
Trials
The Desmond Tutu HIV Centre is actively participating in the global effort to find a preventative HIV
vaccine. In October 2002, the Cape Town AIDS Vaccine Clinical Trials Consortium (CAVAC) was established in the Western Cape ....more
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| Prof Linda-Gail Bekker drawing up vaccine |
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The
Comprehensive International Programme for Research on AIDS
(CIPRA-SA)
CIPRA
- SA is an NIH sponsored programme that includes five projects
ranging from family treatment through either a doctor format or a
primary health care nurse format, to a novel approach to
paediatric treatment, bacterial conjugate vaccines, TB studies and
laboratory studies to identify inexpensive monitoring tests for
HIV infected people....more |
| Sr Colleen
Hermans, Project Manager of Cipra 1 at the Masiphumelele
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Tuberculosis
South Africa lies at the epicentre of the world’s tuberculosis and HIV epidemics. Fuelled by HIV, TB notification rates in some of the townships in Cape Town are among the highest in the world....more |
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The Cape Town AIDS Cohort
(CTAC)
CTAC is one of the largest sub-Saharan African HIV cohort studies. It comprises patients referred for treatment and care from a wide range of primary health care facilities in Cape Town to the adult HIV clinics at Groote Schuur and New Somerset
(NSH) hospitals, since 1984....more |
| Nyanga
Township with Table Mountain in the distance. |
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Adolescent Prevention
The fastest growing HIV epidemic in South Africa involves
young people under the age of 19 years. To this end the DTHC has become involved in adolescent HIV prevention, including the access of adolescents to HIV vaccine clinical
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Mother City Men’s Health Project
Since 1986, almost all HIV/AIDS related education, prevention, treatment, and research programs in South Africa have focused on heterosexual transmission patterns. While this group bears the burden of disease in this country, we cannot neglect the sexual transmission of HIV between men .... more
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