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During World TB day in March 2020, Spotlight featured some of the Centre’s ground-breaking work in paediatric TB research. Cleary spoke to DTTC Director Professor Anneke Hesseling, as well as Dr Megan Palmer, Medical Director at the Centre’s Pharmacokinetics (PK) Unit, based at Brooklyn Chest Hospital. To read the article, please go to: TB in […]

  Background Tuberculosis (TB) is the leading infectious cause of death worldwide. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) there were 10 million new cases and 1.5 million deaths from TB in 2018. Over one million children developed TB during the same timeframe (WHO 2019). Almost 500,000 of last year’s new TB cases are resistant […]

“On World TB Day and during World TB month, the global community is appropriately focusing on the rapidly evolving global COVID-19 pandemic. The care of already vulnerable families and children affected by tuberculosis, including MDR-TB, should however not be neglected during this critical time.” This is the message from Professor Anneke Hesseling, Director of the […]

DTTC annual dissemination event 2019: Research for impact The DTTC annual dissemination event at Hazendal. Photo: TB Proof   The Desmond Tutu TB Centre (DTTC) annual dissemination event was held on the 15th of November 2019 at the historic Hazendal Wine Estate. The theme for the event was “Making a Difference: Research for Impact”. Prof. […]

DTTC and the BENEFIT Kids Project: Large grant helps SU develop safer and simpler treatment for kids with MDR-TB         Representatives from Unitaid and Stellenbosch University recently met to discuss the BENEFIT Kids project. Photo credit: Wilma Stassen Bringing children’s needs to the forefront of the global TB response, the Desmond Tutu […]

ACCEPTANCE: MA CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY FOR 2020   DTTC places a strong emphasis on capacity building through training and development. The Centre would like to congratulate both Dionne Jivan and Kyla Meyerson for being accepted at Stellenbosch University and the University of Johannesburg respectively to complete their MA in Clinical Psychology in 2020.   We would […]

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In celebration of World TB Day 2019, the Desmond Tutu TB Centre (DTTC) held a lunch time event on Friday, 29 March 2019 in the Lecture Hall 6, Education Building, Tygerberg Campus for students and staff. Professor Anneke Hesseling announced the winners of the DTTC social media photo competition,  #TBsTimeIsUp, which generated much interest amongst […]

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‘Thank you for keeping your promise’ to report back on results of PopART study Researchers return to communities to deliver results of landmark HIV prevention study Over the past few weeks, people from nine communities in and around Cape Town and the Winelands district have gathered to hear about the primary outcome results of the […]