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Africa Health Research Institute’s vision is optimal health and well-being of under-resourced populations.
How close are we to an HIV cure❓ Earlier in 2025 we announced results from a groundbreaking HIV cure trial led by our Prof Thumbi Ndung'u. 📽️ Watch this video reflecting on his journey from rural Kenya to eminent HIV scientist &what the trial results mean www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVl1... #WorldAidsDay
How close are we to an HIV cure? Results and insights from the first HIV cure trial in Africa
YouTube video by Africa Health Research Institute (AHRI)
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December 1, 2025 at 11:04 AM
❓ Could symptom-free people be unknowingly passing TB to others?

✅ A major study has launched in South Africa & Indonesia to try to answer this critical gap in our #TB knowledge.

AHRI faculty member & study co-lead @emilybethwong.bsky.social explains

#endTB #WCLH2025

📽️ youtu.be/M053QPGZaac
Could symptom-free people be unknowingly passing TB to others?
YouTube video by Africa Health Research Institute (AHRI)
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November 18, 2025 at 1:58 PM
📢 AHRI at #WCLH2025

When new #TB vaccines arrive, we must be ready!

AHRI's Prof Limakatso Lebina was part of a panel on engaging & preparing communities for new TB vaccines at a @stoptb.bsky.social side event 'Innovate, Integrate, Impact: a symposium on new tools to END TB'

@theunion.org
November 18, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Three years after the KwaZulu-Natal floods, families are still living in “the falling-down place.”

@bhekisisa.org 's story shows how extreme weather erodes both homes and mental health.

📷 Delwyn Verasamy

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October 8, 2025 at 4:44 AM
25 years ago, AHRI’s HDSS was born in rural KZN to help confront HIV & build lasting science.

Today, it follows over 150,000 people, generating vital insights. Join us for a public lecture on its past & future:

🔊 Prof Geoff Solarsh
🗓️ 16 Oct at 5.30pm, SAST
🔗 RSVP: forms.office.com/r/0MB44x4fjN
October 3, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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"Some languages don't have certain mental health diagnoses. Like, how do you say post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in Zulu?"

@ahri-news.bsky.social researcher, Collins Iwuji, on #MentalHealth and #ClimateChange.

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The falling down place - Bhekisisa
The scars left by the April 2022 flash floods aren’t obvious to visitors to this part of Inanda, the township just northwest of Durban. The earth seems to have healed itself, roads are passable and…
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September 22, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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We are hiring! Please circulate in your networks. Join us in beautiful warm and wonderful KZN to answer some important questions about asymptomatic / subclinical TB.

#TBsky #IDsky 🧪
📢 AHRI is #hiring for 2️⃣ key roles for an exciting new study on asymptomatic TB transmission.

Successful candidates will join the leadership of the study, working closely with our director for clinical trials Limakatso Lebina & @emilybethwong.bsky.social

More ➡️ ahri.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/AHRI1
August 21, 2025 at 3:25 PM
📢 AHRI is #hiring for 2️⃣ key roles for an exciting new study on asymptomatic TB transmission.

Successful candidates will join the leadership of the study, working closely with our director for clinical trials Limakatso Lebina & @emilybethwong.bsky.social

More ➡️ ahri.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/AHRI1
August 21, 2025 at 1:59 PM
🥳 Celebrating 🔟 years of the DELTAS Africa Programme!

It's been a packed 3 days at the DELTAS Africa Scientific Meeting, featuring cutting-edge research in health, climate & social sciences; strengthening partnerships & reflecting on a decade of impact in building Africa’s research capacity
July 30, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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It’s #WorldHepatitisDay!
We work all through the year with amazing international and interdisciplinary partners to improve awareness, advocacy, training and access to interventions.
Thanks to an amazing team!
@crick.ac.uk @ahri-news.bsky.social @cnwl.nhs.uk #KWTRP #UVRI #NoHep #HBV
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July 28, 2025 at 10:11 AM
The Department of Health & @who.int are hosting 🇿🇦 's 1st national TB Vaccine Preparedness Workshop, bringing together policymakers, scientists, civil society & community leaders to ensure our systems are ready to deliver when a new TB 💉 becomes available. AHRI's Prof Willem Hanekom is there 👇🏾
July 24, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Big #lenacapavir news this week:

1. @who.int recommends 2x yearly injectable LEN as PrEP
2. @bhekisisa.org reports SA has accepted an offer of +- R520-million from the Global Fund to buy the jab

AHRI is proud to have contributed to the landmark LEN results 📽️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHRV...
Breakthrough in HIV prevention with lenacapavir
YouTube video by Africa Health Research Institute (AHRI)
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July 15, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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Our interdisciplinary team for the EVOLVE project tackling #HBV #hepatitisB met with the Community Advisory Board in #SouthAfrica to exchange feedback & ideas.
Lots of food for thought: #vaccines #treatment #diagnosis & much needed care pathways. #NoHep #HepSky 🧪
@ahri-news.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk
June 27, 2025 at 5:44 AM
📢 It's a big day for African health research: the African Population Cohorts Consortium has formally launched!

Hosted by the Science for Africa Foundation & funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social APCC brings together 40+ cohorts across 16 countries in Africa to drive health research & policy.

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June 17, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Poster by Gloria Sukali & team at #EASLCongress, showing measurement of #tenofovir levels in people living with #HIV ± #HBV in South Africa. Viraemic suppression more reliable in HIV; even with high levels HBV can persist.
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@ahri-news.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk @ucl.ac.uk @easlnews.bsky.social
May 9, 2025 at 6:39 AM
It’s #WorldImmunisationWeek - a moment to spotlight the research we are doing on vaccines 💉

At AHRI, Prof Limakatso Lebina leads our clinical trials:

✅ We’re currently testing 2️⃣ novel TB vaccines for adolescents and adults, and we are preparing for an HIV vaccine study

A short 🧵:
April 30, 2025 at 10:42 AM
As we mark #WorldImmunizationWeek we stand at an historic moment: the development of a new TB vaccine that holds the greatest promise since the invention of BCG over a century ago.

Read how science is bringing us closer to a future free of TB ➡️ dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025... #VaccinesWork
April 29, 2025 at 1:20 PM
In the past 50 years immunization has ⬇️ infant mortality by 40%. That means more children now reach their 5th birthday than ever before in human history. Celebrate & protect this incredible achievement. Fund immunization!

A healthier world is #HumanlyPossible

#vaccineswork
April 24, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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Access to liver health - a priority for everyone... everywhere. While cuts bite hard, we will push for ongoing training, research, funding, employment, advocacy and access.
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#MASLD #HBV #HCV #NoHep #LiverSky
@worldhepalliance.bsky.social @ahri-news.bsky.social @hepbcompanion.bsky.social
April 19, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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#WorldLiverDay
We live with a huge & neglected burden of disease from viral #hepatitis. We have the tools for prevention, diagnosis & treatment... now we must fight to keep using them.
@crick.ac.uk @ahri-news.bsky.social @cnwlnhs.bsky.social @uclhresearch.bsky.social #CDC #PEPFAR #NoHep #HBV
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April 19, 2025 at 3:04 PM
We're proud to share that AHRI's head of clinical trials, Prof Limakatso Lebina, has been awarded the Calestous Juma Science Leadership Fellowship.

✅ The fellowship brings together accomplished innovators to form a community of global health opinion shapers & influencers

Congrats, Limakatso!
April 16, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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Powerful words from @emilybethwong.bsky.social
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As precious and powerful resources are cut, we have to stand together, we have to keep going, & keep our eyes on the goals. We mourn, but we also mobilise.
#worldTBday #TB #HIV #StandUpForScience #MedSky #IDSky #SouthAfrica
We really spoke from our hearts today. It was painful but cathartic to talk with my friends & comrades from UKZN and CAPRISA. We ended up inspired to join together and to fight!

If you want to hear my raw response to the current crisis start at 45 minutes ✊🏽🇿🇦

www.youtube.com/live/5QF7GVu...
World Tuberculosis Day 2025
YouTube video by University of KwaZulu-Natal South Africa
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March 24, 2025 at 9:40 PM
As we mark #WorldTBDay2025 we stand on the threshold of creating only the second tuberculosis vaccine 💉 ever, and the first in more than a century since the BCG vaccine in 1921.

✅ Words from AHRI's Prof Willem Hanekom, in @dailymaverick.co.za

www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025... #endTB #stopTB
We can finally see hope on the horizon for beating TB
As we mark World TB Day on 24 March, we stand on the threshold of creating only the second tuberculosis vaccine ever, and the first in more than a century since the BCG vaccine in 1921.
www.dailymaverick.co.za
March 24, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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Today in the midst of a man-made crisis for science and health we mark #WorldTBDay. The irony is that because of the gem of 🇿🇦🇺🇸🌍 TB science we have better tools than ever and with sustained commitment and funding we coule actually #EndTB. Join us as we discuss the state of TB today at 1pm SAST!
📢 Today is #WorldTBDay2025

Join us to mark the day with a panel discussion focussed on innovations in #TB research in partnership with the University of KwaZulu-Natal & CAPRISA

📆 Monday, 24 March
⏰ 1 - 2.30pm SAST
🔗 youtube.com/@UKZNSouthAf...

@emilybethwong.bsky.social #WorldTBDay #endTB
March 24, 2025 at 8:52 AM
📢 Today is #WorldTBDay2025

Join us to mark the day with a panel discussion focussed on innovations in #TB research in partnership with the University of KwaZulu-Natal & CAPRISA

📆 Monday, 24 March
⏰ 1 - 2.30pm SAST
🔗 youtube.com/@UKZNSouthAf...

@emilybethwong.bsky.social #WorldTBDay #endTB
March 24, 2025 at 8:22 AM