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Centre for Integrated Data and Epidemiological Research (CIDER)
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CIDER conducts multi-disciplinary research on the intersection between infectious disease and comorbidities in Southern Africa. The Centre is located within the School of Public Health at the University of Cape Town
Congrats to CIDER's Jonathan Euvrard on his senior authorship of this new paper, providing much-needed data on Advanced HIV disease:

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October 16, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Exciting work from CIDER in South Africa’s Eastern Cape!

We’re proud to be part of an innovative project using a tiny rural lab to tackle a global health crisis

Read the full story here:
In South Africa’s Rural Eastern Cape, a Tiny Lab Tackles a Global Health Crisis - The Trinity Challenge
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September 19, 2025 at 7:59 AM
CIDER's Emma Kalk will be speaking at this upcoming event: sciencesummitnyc.org/science-summ...
September 17, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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24 Hours to Save AIDS Research is an all-day, online marathon that will include >70 speakers from around the world, enabling people from all time zones to access the programming in real time. Join us! Register bit.ly/45U1keO and join us on YouTube bit.ly/45Qftts. #HIV #saveAIDSresearch #HIVresearch
September 11, 2025 at 2:45 PM
New paper: Life-years lost associated with mental disorders in people with HIV: a cohort study in South Africa, Canada and the United States.

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<em>Journal of the International AIDS Society</em> | IAS HIV Research Journal | Wiley Online Library
Introduction People with HIV (PWH) have a high burden of mental health disorders, which contribute to increased mortality due to elevated rates of physical illness, suicide or fatal accidents. Addit...
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September 3, 2025 at 12:50 PM
New paper from Morna Cornell: Men's health policies: long overdue

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September 3, 2025 at 12:48 PM
New paper from Haroon Moolla: Short-term CD4+ cell count declines during antiretroviral therapy interruptions: a focused review
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Short-term CD4+ cell count declines during antiretroviral... : JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes
An abstract is unavailable. This article is available as a PDF only.
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September 3, 2025 at 12:46 PM
New paper from Haroon Moolla: Short-term CD4+ cell count declines during antiretroviral therapy interruptions: a focused review.
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Short-term CD4+ cell count declines during antiretroviral... : JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes
An abstract is unavailable. This article is available as a PDF only.
journals.lww.com
September 3, 2025 at 12:44 PM
New paper from Amohelang Lehloa: Comorbidities in pregnant South African women living with HIV and associations with adverse birth outcomes: a prospective cohort study.
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Comorbidities in pregnant South African women living with HIV and associations with adverse birth outcomes: a prospective cohort study
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September 3, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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🤱Over 200,000 pregnant women and their infants suffer from TB each year.

📣 Our Maternal and Child TB Working Group led the call for research to #endTB in pregnant and lactating women.

They played a vital role in the @who.int call to action and consensus statement: theunion.org/news/union-m...
August 26, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Ncumisa Msolo, MSc student with CIDER, presenting her poster on breastfeeding and mental health at the Southern African HIV Clinician's Society Conference on Friday
August 26, 2025 at 8:49 AM
New paper: Diarrhoeal admissions among children aged <5 years in public sector facilities in Western Cape Province, South Africa, before and during the COVID-19 pandemic (2019 - 2021) samajournals.co.za/index.php/sa...
Diarrhoeal admissions among children aged <5 years in public sector facilities in Western Cape Province, South Africa, before and during the COVID-19 pandemic (2019 - 2021) | South African M...
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August 5, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Well done to Meg Osler who recently gave input into this WHO technical brief: Promoting sustainable data quality management to
enhance HIV programmes.
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July 31, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Meet the Speakers for the upcoming International Clearinghouse for Birth Defects meeting. Deadline to register is 31 August: confco.eventsair.com/icbdsr-2025-...
July 31, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Kim Anderson presented an oral at the Pediatrics and HIV workshop in Kigali: #18 Infectious morbidity among children HIV-exposed uninfected in South Africa: Elevated risk in infancy but not thereafter
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July 23, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Kim Anderson presented her research in Kigali at #IAS2025 and at the Pediatrics and HIV workshop: Viral load monitoring during pregnancy and postpartum in the Western Cape province, South Africa, 2018-2021
July 23, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Shani de Beer's research was featured in a poster walk at the Peds Workshop: Abstract #26 Association between maternal antenatal HIV service engagement and well-child visit utilisation in the Western Cape, South Africa ve-ame.ams3.digitaloceanspaces.com/Abstract_boo...
July 23, 2025 at 8:58 AM
New pre-print: Identifying priority populations for HIV interventions using acquisition and transmission indicators: a combined analysis of 15 mathematical models from 10 African countries
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Identifying priority populations for HIV interventions using acquisition and transmission indicators: a combined analysis of 15 mathematical models from 10 African countries
Background Characterising disparities in HIV infection across populations by gender, age, and HIV risk is key information to guide intervention priorities. We compared 9 models representing 15 differe...
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July 23, 2025 at 8:37 AM
New paper: Age-specific all-cause mortality rates among adolescents and youth living with and without HIV: Evidence from a cohort study in South Africa onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/NP8JDG...
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July 23, 2025 at 8:36 AM
New publication: The long-term impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on tuberculosis care and infection control measures in anti-retroviral therapy (ART) clinics in low- and middle-income countries: a multiregional site survey in Asia and Africa gh.bmj.com/content/10/3...
The long-term impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on tuberculosis care and infection control measures in anti-retroviral therapy (ART) clinics in low- and middle-income countries: a multiregional site sur...
Background The COVID-19 pandemic challenged healthcare systems, particularly in settings with high infectious disease burden. We examined the postpandemic long-term impacts of COVID-19 on tuberculosis...
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July 23, 2025 at 8:34 AM
New publication: Age-specific all-cause mortality rates among adolescents and youth living with and without HIV: Evidence from a cohort study in South Africa doi.org/10.1002/jia2...
<em>Journal of the International AIDS Society</em> | IAS HIV Research Journal | Wiley Online Library
Introduction Mortality among adolescents living with HIV (ALHIV) remains a global health problem. We lack granular (age- and sex-disaggregated) data on mortality among ALHIV, hence, this study aims ...
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July 22, 2025 at 1:09 PM
51st Annual Meeting of the International Clearinghouse for Birth Defects in South Africa from November 2-5, 2025.
This year’s theme: "Data that Counts: Transforming Lives Through Birth Defects Surveillance"

Abstract Submissions: icbdsr2025.co.za/call-for-abs...
Deadline extended to July 18, 2025.
July 9, 2025 at 7:57 AM
New publication from @leighjohnsoncpt.bsky.social : The cost of the plunge: The impact and cost of a cessation of PEPFAR-supported services in South Africa
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The cost of the plunge: The impact and cost of a cessation... : AIDS
gical impact of ceasing provision of services currently supported by PEPFAR and the costs and cost-effectiveness to the South African government (SAG) of potentially taking over these services. Metho...
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July 1, 2025 at 12:17 PM
CIDER is pleased to be part of capacity building in infectious disease modelling with aspiring modellers from around Africa, through the annual Meaningful Modelling of Epidemiological Data (MMED) clinic, delivered by the International Clinics on Infectious Disease Dynamics and Data (ICI3D)
June 25, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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MUST READ | 8 million people living with HIV. 6 million on treatment. Behind these big numbers lurk a universe of fascinating dynamics. In this special briefing, Spotlight editor @marcuslowx.bsky.social unpacks what we know about the state of HIV in SA.

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#InTheSpotlight | Graphs that paint the picture of HIV in SA
Eight million people living with HIV. Just over 6 million on treatment. Behind these big numbers lurk a universe of fascinating epidemiological dynamics. In this special briefing, Spotlight editor Mar...
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June 9, 2025 at 7:52 AM