@graemein

Infectious Diseases doctor and researcher in Cape Town. Runner.

Joined January 2015
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To join: uct-za.zoom.us/j/91324125620…
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Cape Town sunset last night
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Longer term virologic outcomes in ARTIST trial (n=192) showing favourable suppression rates on 2nd line TLD, although 2 participants (~1%) did develop DTG resistance. Congrats Jen van Heerden. sajhivmed.org.za/index.php/h…
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@News2429 Apr 2025
ANALYSIS | We're watching the largest HIV treatment programme in the world unravel in real time. We don't need perfection, but we need a combination of urgency, action, and strategy to save it, argues Professor Francois Venter. | @SpotlightNSP brnw.ch/21wSiNU
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Our paper on urine Xpert Ultra testing in people with HIV admitted to hospital and being investigated for TB ... an important additional test to help make rapid diagnoses among these people. Congrats to Dave Stead who led this study in 2 hospitals in EC🇿🇦 academic.oup.com/cid/advance…
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Norway gives more foreign aid per capita than any other OECD country. (Our World in Data)
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Highlighting the crisis posed by reduced access to CD4 testing platforms in settings where they are most needed - and the implications of this for the care of people living with HIV: thelancet.com/journals/langl…

Resolving the CD4-testing crisis to help end AIDS-related deaths

WHO defines advanced HIV disease in adults and adolescents as having a CD4 cell count less than 200 cells per μL or WHO clinical stage 3 and 4 disease.1 Despite programmatic advances, 30% of people...

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Anton Eberhard@AntonEberhard2 Nov 2024
Electrification progress in South Africa
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"In 2023, Tuberculosis (TB) probably returned to being the world’s leading cause of death from a single infectious agent, following 3 years in which it was replaced by coronavirus disease (COVID-19), and caused almost twice as many deaths as HIV/AIDS." buff.ly/3C3Hsuw
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Cape Town Marathon tomorrow 🏃. Weather looking reasonable. Marathon number 26 for me.
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Postcard view of Table Mountain at 4km into the Cape Town marathon this morning
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“Service delivery requires people, not just money ...... But you need the software of routines, relationships, values, passion to make the system really work.” Great profile of Prof Lucy Gilson, UCT health systems academic dailymaverick.co.za/article/…

Virchow Prize winner Lucy Gilson on NHI — ‘service delivery requires people, not just money’

Professor Lucy Gilson chats about her upbringing and unexpected dive into the world of public health, and shares her thoughts on the NHI.

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Join us for this exciting, one-day SAHCS conference! We’re looking forward to Prof Francois Venter's presentation on the role of #Lenacapavir and how it could redefine first-line #HIVtreatment. Register now 👉🏽 bit.ly/3V6F39u @FrancoisVenter3 @SpotlightNSP @Bhekisisa_MG
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An absolute giant has passed. Freedom fighter, fiercely independent thinker, modest man with a great sense of humour. Hambe Kahle.
Daily Maverick@dailymaverick13 Oct 2024
GIANT LEGACY REFLECTION: Mboweni’s sudden death highlights an inestimable contribution and a regretful loss : If not for former finance minister and Reserve Bank governor Tito Mboweni’s embrace of inflation targeting as a tool of monetary… dlvr.it/TFJDBW #SouthAfrica

Mboweni’s sudden death highlights an enormous contribution and a sad loss

If not for Tito Mboweni’s tight control of fiscal policy, South Africa’s economy would be in a far more parlous state than it is now.

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