16–17 July 2016, Durban, South Africa Jaclyn Mann, Alexander O Pasternak, Ann Chahroudi, Jerome A Singh and Anna Laura Ross* 1 HIV Pathogenesis Programme, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa 2 Laboratory of Experimental Virology, Department of Medical Microbiology, Academic Medical Center of the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands 3 Department of Pediatrics, Emory University ...

The Industrial Restructuring Project (IRP) was initiated at the beginning of 1996 as the KwaZulu-Natal Industrial Restructuring Project (KZN IRP). The project initially focused exclusively on KwaZulu-Natal, but is now aimed at supporting industrial policy in South Africa at the national, provincial and local levels. It is facilitated by international experts and is based at the School of Develo...

BACKGROUND KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa, has among the highest burden of XDR TB worldwide with the majority of cases occurring due to transmission. Poor access to health facilities can be a barrier to timely diagnosis and treatment of TB, which can contribute to ongoing transmission. We sought to determine the geographic distribution of XDR TB patients and proximity to health facilities...

BACKGROUND Male circumcision can provide life-long reduction in the risk of acquiring HIV infection. In South Africa, the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Department of Health committed to rolling out circumcision programs to address the HIV epidemic. The Department of Health enlisted the help of St. Mary's Hospital in Mariannhill and the Operation Abraham Collaborative. METHODS St. Mary's Hospital a...

Community family planning programmes in South Africa arose from the controversial apartheid history of controlling the African population while encouraging the growth of European migrant population. Post-apartheid population policies shifted away from population control to aligning policies to the global agenda that placed emphasis on the link between population and development. The focus on po...

OBJECTIVES Unregulated use of pesticides continues in developing countries in the presence of illiteracy and limited safety training and practices. This paper describes training and safety practices when mixing and spraying pesticides, and acetylcholinesterase levels among women farmers in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. METHODS A cross-sectional study conducted in women working in small-scale a...

William R Bishai, director of the KwaZulu-Natal Research Institute for Tuberculosis and HIV (K-RITH), argues that the best place to carry out research into a disease is in its midst.

Four anguillid eel species occur in the western Indian Ocean rivers of Africa: Anguilla bengalensis, bicolor, marmorata and mossambica. These catadromous fishes face multiple stressors, including habitat alteration deterioration, barriers to migration, pollution adverse impacts alien species, but knowledge occurrence, abundance ecology Africa remains poor. This study investigated present histor...

2014;27(3) S Afr J Clin Nutr Kassier SM, MSc Dietetics, RD(SA), Lecturer; Veldman FJ, PhD(Nutrition), RN(SA), Professor Discipline of Dietetics and Human Nutrition, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban Correspondence to: Suna Kassier, e-mail: [email protected]