CIDRI-Africa

Prof. Meintjes speaks to President Ramaphosa just after his vaccination

President Cyril Ramaphosa receives COVID-19 vaccine

CIDRI-Africa Principal Investigator Prof. Graeme Meintjes was present when the first healthcare workers, President Cyril Ramaphosa and Health Minister Dr Zweli Mkhize received COVID-19 vaccinations at Khayelitsha District Hospital.

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Supporting Excellence

The Wellcome Centre for Infectious Diseases Research in Africa fosters investigator-led approaches via the overarching scientific objective of combatting infection, especially HIV-1 and tuberculosis, through clinical and laboratory research.

Macrophages infected with M. tuberculosis; image by Dr Suraj Parihar

Basic Science

Our Basic Science Platform provides the laboratory infrastructure and technical support to ensure the safe handling of infectious material.

Subgraph of the ANIMA network for dataset HIVsetB

Biomedical Data Integration

We work with multidimensional clinical and scientific data at the molecular, cellular, clinical and population levels.

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Clinical Research

CIDRI-Africa supports clinical studies in the community at our facility at Site B in Khayelitsha.

For information on South Africa's response to COVID-19 please visit the COVID-19 Corona Virus South African Resource Portal.

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Saturday, 6 March 2021

SA launches COVID-19 vaccination drive

South Africa’s vaccination drive began on Wednesday, 17 February 2021, at the Khayelitsha Hospital, with President Cyril Ramaphosa, Minister of Health Dr Zweli Mkhize and various frontline healthcare workers among the first to receive the Johnson & Johnson (J&J) vaccine.

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Thu, 25 Feb 2021 - 12:15

CIDRI-Africa hosts Vaccine Literacy Training Workshop in Khayelitsha

The workshop covered: an introduction to vaccines, the difference between vaccination and immunisation, SARS-CoV-2 vaccine development and research, and myths about vaccines.

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Thu, 18 Feb 2021 - 10:30

Professor Keertan Dheda joins CIDRI-Africa

Keertan is Head of the Division of Pulmonology in the Faculty of Health Sciences and leads the Centre for Lung Infection and Immunity, which is a UCT accredited centre with its clinical profiling facilities based at the University of Cape Town Lung Institute. He joins the Centre as a Contributing Investigator.

Publication Date:

Mon, 08 Feb 2021 - 10:30