News and Events
2024 News
Women’s Day
: Each year on the 9th of August, South Africans of all backgrounds, races and cultural groups join in celebrating National Women's Day. This year Wits Match Research Unit celebrated Women’s Day in style, “expressing women’s worlds in iPhinifa”.
World Contraception Day
WMRU celebrated World Contraception day on the 26th Sept, joining an event with Commercial City Clinic, where staff gave education and information to clients attending the clinic.
Contraceptive Research Workshop – Kenya
Busi attended the Innovation in Contraceptive Research Workshop on 3-5 September 2024 in Mombasa , Kenya Workshop was hosted by CONRAD in collaboration with KEMRI The purpose of the workshop was to strengthen the research capacity of investigators working in family...
Visit from RTi
Wits MRU office had visitors from RTi to monitor and train PURPOSE1 Qualitative work. Visitors include Liz Montgomery (Principal Investigator), Imogen Hawley (Research Public Health Analyst) and Alinda Young (Coding & Analysis Coordinator) held on the 05 September...
MGH Visit
Our collaborating partners from the Massachusetts General Hospital and Boston University in the US visited us onsite from 20 - 23 May 2024 to conduct a Site Initiation Training to Wits MRU staff for new NIH funded research projects.
WHO/DoH Visit
The site initiation meeting for a research study that focuses on Integration of PrEP in Contraceptive Services was held on Wednesday 19 June 2024 at Wits MRU. Dr Petrus Steyn from WHO Geneva initiated the South Africa Teams which included the WHO Country office,...
2022 and older News
The 23rd IUSTI World Congress
The 23rd IUSTI (International Union Against Sexually Transmitted Infections) World Congress was be held from 4 to 7 September 2022 in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe. Dr Manjeetha Jaggernath and Prof Jenni Smit attended the project INSIGHT investigator meeting held on...
A visit from Dr Brian Zanoni
Dr Brian Zanoni, from Emory University in Atlanta, USA, visited MRU offices on 31 August 2022. He is the Principal Investigator for the HIDE study (A hidden epidemic: Using respondent driven sampling to engage people who inject drugs in South Africa into the HIV...
WITS Human Resources Department Visit
On the 19th August Charles Gilbert and Nakitah Geemooi from the University of the Witwatersrand Human Resources Department in Johannesburg visited WMRU.
UNFPA Meeting
Nzwakie presented in a meeting held in Drakensburg, hosted by UNFPA and DoH. Presentation title: Impact of COVID-19 effect on SRHR
Gilead Science visit to MRU
On 23 June 2022 , sponsors from GILEAD Sciences in the US visited WMRU for 1 day. The visit was an opportunity for our visitors to see the WMRU site and talk to staff involved in conducting the study. WMRU will be conducting a Phase 3, Double-Blinded, Multicentre,...
European Society of Contraception and Reproductive Health Congress
Mags Beksinska and Jenni Smit attended the European Society of Contraception and Reproductive Health Congress in Ghent 25-28 May 2022. During the conference they presented an oral abstract on weight change in hormonal injectable users and a poster on women’s...