Africa Health Research Institute

📢 We’re hiring! Our mental health lead @xanthehunt is recruiting a research associate to lead a major Wellcome Trust-funded adolescent mental health study. ✅ A fantastic opportunity for early-career academics 📅 Apply by 4 April 🔗 ahri.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/AHRI1/de…

AHRI's executive director Prof @WillemAHanekom is delivering the Annual Stephen Lawn Memorial Lecture today at the University of Cape Town. 💉 New vaccines to dramatically interrupt the TB epidemic 🗓 31 March | ⏰ 17:00 (SAST) 💻Watch live: #success" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">us02web.zoom.us/j/83605784022?…

@AHRI_News @HealthZA @NNdjeka @LimakatsoLebina @rjlessells Yes! We can end TB! 🔥 Having seen TB's impact in my community, I'm really encouraged by this powerful event at UKZN with AHRI right now. Great keynote and panel on lived experiences.Let's keep pushing harder for better diagnostics and treatments across Africa. #WorldTBDay #EndTB

Yes! We can end TB! Happening now: ✅keynote from @HealthZA 's @NNdjeka ✅Panel discussion with @LimakatsoLebina, Kogie Naidoo, Patrick Mdletshe, Rubeshan Perumal, Yunus Moosa & @rjlessells Livestream our #WorldTBDay event here ➡️ youtube.com/watch?v=BH2DyC…

We were honoured to host the @wellcometrust Board of Governors and senior leadership this week. Wellcome is a key partner in supporting AHRI’s work and the visit was a valuable opportunity to deepen understanding of our work and identify new areas for collaboration.

🌍 Today we mark #WorldTBDay with an important reminder: TB is curable! ✅ Know your symptoms ✅ Get tested early ✅ Follow your treatment plan We observed #WorldTBDay in partnership with Somkhele community, local government, Mpukunyoni traditional authority & @kznhealth

📢 Yes, we can end TB! As we mark #WorldTBDay 2026, we are celebrating a milestone for one of our major studies: screening has begun in Richards Bay, KZN, to investigate asymptomatic TB transmission. 📽️ Prof @LimakatsoLebina explains why this research could change TB control

SA's 2018 #TB survey showed more than half of people with TB had no symptoms — no cough, no fever, nothing. Can asymptomatic people transmit TB? @AHRI_News’s Limakatso Lebina is trying to find out. #WorldTBDay2026 #PublicHealthAgenda2026 bhekisisa.org/health-news-so…

📢 AHRI is hiring! Exciting opportunities include: ✅ master's students (2 positions) ✅ PhD student in immunology, virology or related field ✅ peer navigator Explore all positions & apply here: ahri.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/AHRI1

To mark #WorldTBDay 2026 AHRI & @UKZNCHS & @CAPRISAOfficial will host a symposium featuring: ✅keynote from @HealthZA 's @NNdjeka ✅ panel discussion with @LimakatsoLebina, Kogie Naidoo, Patrick Mdletshe, Rubeshan Perumal, Yunus Moosa & @rjlessells 🔗docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

This type of macrophage (SPP1) is important in cancer biology, where it's linked with poor clinical outcome, but have not previously been observed in TB. 3/3

Their colours reflect the different proteins they express on their surfaces, indicating distinct functions. The green cells, only found on the inner edge of the granuloma, are known as SPP1 macrophages. 2/3

New from AHRI in @JExpMed & on the cover! 📸 shows a human TB granuloma in lung tissue. The red, green & yellow cells shown, for example, are all different type of macrophage - immune cells that fight infection by engulfing & killing microbes like Mtb 🔗 rupress.org/jem/article/22…

A resounding success for the launch of the #HPV Working Group. Call it an #HPV think tank! This week saw KZN scientists & clinicians meeting to combine their efforts to advance #HPV knowledge and to foreground evidence-based policy, in a bid to improve patient care.

📢 Researchers & clinicians from across KZN gathered for a symposium this week to launch the KZN #HPV Working Group. Building a provincial network with @UKZNCHS @CAPRISAOfficial @kznhealth @nhls_sa to advance HPV knowledge, improve patient care & support evidence-informed policy

It's #InternationalHPVDay and we are excited to share that today we launched the KZN HPV Working Group, a collaborative partnership between @UKZN @AHRI @CAPRISA @DOH and the @NHLS.

🚨 I'm hiring at @AHRI_News : Recruiting a Research Associate to help shape the safe & ethical use of generative AI in mental health. Lead cutting-edge research, build global partnerships, and define a taxonomy of harms for AI-enabled mental health tools. ahri.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/AHRI1/de…

📢 We’re hiring! Postdoctoral opportunity at AHRI to advance HIV prevention & care using innovative mathematical modelling approaches integrating status-neutral & SRH services. ✅ Apply now: ahri.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/AHRI1/de… 📅 Applications close: 28 Feb

📢 The KZN HPV Working Group, a collaboration between @UKZNCHS @CAPRISAOfficial @kznhealth @nhls the Cancer & Infectious Diseases Epidemiology Research Unit and AHRI, invites interested researchers & clinicians to join us for our launch symposium 🔗 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

From cutting-edge science to real-world impact, the 19th James Gear Memorial Lecture provided valuable insights into how the interaction between HIV and the immune system may shape future approaches to achieving long-term control without continuous antiretroviral therapy.