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DEPO & BEYOND INVESTIGATORS’ MEETING January 19-20, 2023, Cape Town, South Africa .
Jenni Smit and Mags Beksinska attended the Depo and Beyond Investigator meeting in Cape Town. The meeting presented the results of the project (link to Depo and Beyond in our work). This study aims to improve understanding the Impact of Medroxyprogesterone Acetate...
Visit of Prof Lynn Matthews and Tricia Smith
Prof Lynn Matthews, based at the University of Alabama, USA and one of the Principal investigators of the Zink study (Safer Conception for Women Study – Understanding use of Periconception PrEP: “Protect yourself before pregnancy”) (Add link to study in our work?)....
Visit of Lisa Ondrejcek and Darryl Pahl
The President of dfnet Lisa Ondrejcek and co-owner Darryl Pahl visited WitsMRU from the US in December for a site tour and to discuss the database used for the Insight-PrEP for women study (https://www.matchresearch.co.za/our-work/hivprevention/)
Project Engage — meeting with CONRAD
On November 2nd Wits MRU hosted Karen Dominguez from CONRAD - our sponsor and collaborator from the USA for Project ENGAGE. Karen visited the site to meet project staff and experience project activities. Some Wits MRU members joined the Project Advisory Group (PAG)...
40th SASOG 2022
Jenni Smit and Mags Beksinska attended the 40th National Congress of the South African Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (SASOG 2022) in Cape Town in November. They presented in the oral and poster sessions on the effects of COVID on uptake of various SRH...
Faculty of Health Sciences Research Day
Project Manager Busi Maphumulo presented a poster from the CUBE study at the University of the Witwatersrand Faculty of Health Sciences Research Day on the 15th Sept 2022.