World AIDS Day at MatCH Research Commercial City

World AIDS Day at MatCH Research Commercial City

The event took place on the 1st of December at the MatCH Research Commercial City site. Staff at the site had candles burning whilst observing a moment of silence. The event was closed by enjoying cupcakes specially designed for the day, to commemorate the lives of...
DIFFER Project Management Team Meeting 2015

DIFFER Project Management Team Meeting 2015

The DIFFER project management team recently held the Fifth annual team meeting in Maputo, Mozambique from the 28th September to the 1st October 2015. DIFFER is an acronym for ‘Diagonal Interventions to Fast-Forward Enhanced Reproductive health’. The project seeks to...
AYAZAZI Launch

AYAZAZI Launch

The AYAZAZI study team celebrated yesterday as it officially launched and recruited the first participant. This study is developing a cohort of adolescents and young adults (AYA) in Soweto and Durban, South Africa to identify, understand and link socio-behavioural,...
UPTAKE Project Qualitative Research Training – Lusaka, Zambia

UPTAKE Project Qualitative Research Training – Lusaka, Zambia

Yolandie Kriel conducted qualitative research training with our Zambian and Kenyan UPTAKE Research partners from 19-21 August 2015 at the University Teaching Hospital’s Pediatric Excellence Unit in Lusaka, Zambia. The aim of the training workshop was to review...
Launch of the UPTAKE project

Launch of the UPTAKE project

The UPTAKE Project is a multi-country research study which aims to increase met needs for family planning/contraception through community and health care provider participation. This project is an international collaboration between the World Health Organization (WHO)...
SA AIDS 2015 Discovery Awards

SA AIDS 2015 Discovery Awards

MatCH Research would like to congratulate the following staff for receiving awards/recognition of their work at the 7th SA AIDS Conference in Durban, June 2015: Yolandie Kriel received the Discovery Award for best Social Science poster at the conference. Details of...