Posted on July 21, 2015 by Rhian in News MEDIA RELEASE FROM WITS UNIVERSITY DATE: WEDNESDAY, 22 JULY 2015 CASH TRANSFERS CONDITIONAL ON SCHOOLING DOES NOT PREVENT HIV INFECTION AMONG YOUNG SOUTH AFRICAN WOMEN A new study has found that giving cash transfers to high school girls to attend school
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Warwick PhD student wins competition for thesis
Posted on July 14, 2015 by Rhian in News Jocelyn Watkins, a Warwick Medical School PhD student, has won her university’s first Three Minute Thesis competition for Best Oral Presentation in Health Sciences. Her winning presentation (see above) was focused on how modern technology can be used to improve primary
A fond farewell to Mama Vi
Posted on July 14, 2015 by Rhian in News Agincourt Unit for over 20 years, our Finance Clerk, Violet Chela, has decided to retire in order to spend time with her family and on other projects. Affectionately know to all as ‘Mama Vi’, Chela first came to work for Agincourt
OP-ED: Keep teens away from bars to prevent HIV
Posted on June 2, 2015 by Rhian in News by Dr. Molly Rosenberg The Champions for the AIDS-Free Generation, a union of former presidents and other African leaders determined to help create an HIV/AIDS-free generation, met recently in Johannesburg and redoubled their commitment to ending the AIDS epidemic by 2030.
Wits – proud to be a part of the H3Africa Consortium
Posted on May 22, 2015 by Rhian in News The AWI-Gen Group at the H3 Africa workshop Rhian Twine, Zané Lombard, Audrey Khosa, Michèle Ramsay, Venesa Pillay, Ernest Tambo and Scott Hazelhurst (absent from the photograph Pedro Pisa) A Wits delegation from AWI-Gen (Africa, Wits-INDEPTH Partnership for GENomic studies)
The Nkateko Study protocol paper
HOT OFF THE PRESS Posted on December 11, 2014 by Rhian in News Just published in the Trials journal – “The Nkateko health service trial to improve hypertension management in rural South Africa: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial” by Margaret Thorogood, Jane Goudge, Melanie Bertram, Tobias Chirwa, Sandra
Jan-June 2014 Agincourt News
Posted on November 14, 2014 by Rhian in News Upload and read the Jan-June 2014 Agincourt News (link further on in post) – a biannual Agincourt publication. This edition features census launch 2014, community feedback 2014, updates on the Swa Koteka and Nkateko trilas, articles on cellphones and places of birth
Largest ever dataset of causes of death
Posted on October 29, 2014 by Rhian in News In an unprecedented degree of collaboration between health and demographic surveillance systems, all members of the INDEPTH Network, and representing a breakthrough in demonstrating how to provide actual records for deaths on-the-ground, rather than relying on mathematical models, worked on one huge
Mandela Day 2014
Posted on September 11, 2014 by Rhian in News MRC/Wits Agincourt Unit staff commemorated Mandela by cleaning up the streets of Agincourt village. A bakkie load of rubbish was collected and taken to the municipal rubbish dump in Thulamahashe. THANKS ALL – lets do the same next year. Well done