📢 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'

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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

bhekisisa.org/special-repo...

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

📢 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

🥳 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

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 👇🏾

📢 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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And in a time of rampant vaccine 💉 misinformation, Prof Lebina is clear:

💬 “Vaccines are the only way we can eliminate or eradicate infectious diseases.”

#VaccinesWork #HumanlyPossible #WorldImmunizationWeek

Why focus on TB vaccine research?

“Because we don’t have many tools for #TB prevention,” Prof Lebina says.

TB remains one of the deadliest infectious diseases globally and a new vaccine for adolescents and adults is urgently needed.

#VaccinesWork #WorldImmunisationWeek

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 🧵:

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

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

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!

📢 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

Join us to mark #WorldTBDay with a panel discussion focussed on innovations in #TB research featuring Dr @emilybethwong.bsky.social & colleagues from UKZN & CAPRISA

📅 24 March
⏲️ 1 - 2.30pm SAST
🔗 www.youtube.com/@UKZNSouthAf...

#StopTB #endTB #WorldTBDay2025

Find out more, and read the full report, here ➡️ www.ahri.org/realities-of...

#SOSAF2024 #SouthAfricanFathers24

The 3rd #SOSAF2024 report was released yesterday & offers a data-driven look at the realities of fatherhood in South Africa. It presents fresh insights into the roles fathers are playing in caregiving, the social & economic challenges they face, and the evolving dynamics of fatherhood in SA homes.

📢 “Recognising & supporting social fathers who, other than family members, may be teachers or community mentors, can help ensure children have stable, positive male role models, even in the absence of biological fathers" - AHRI's Dr Tawanda Makusha, co-editor of the State of SA’s Fathers 2024 report

A major new research project at AHRI, led by Dr @emilybethwong.bsky.social is set to tackle asymptomatic TB, one of the most complex issues hindering progress in the fight against the #TB epidemic.

Find out more ➡️ www.ahri.org/groundbreaki...

#stopTB #endTB