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2024 News
Mandela Day Donation
Mandela Day Donation: On 7th August 2024, Wits MRU staff donated approximately eight boxes of clothes and baby supplies to the Diakonia Centre in eThekwini Central.
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.
2022 and older News
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.
WHO visit to WMRU
Prof Petrus Steyn from The World Health Organization (WHO) Department of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Research (SRH) and Dr Sithembile Dlamini-Nqeketo from the WHO regional office in South Africa (second from left on photo) visited WMRU to hear more about our...