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Zambia WHO Meeting

Zambia WHO Meeting

Mags Beksinska and Jenni Smit attended the WHO and stakeholder consultation on strategies to strengthen the integration of HIV prevention and contraceptive services in health systems leveraging implementation science methods in Lusaka Zambia on the 11-13 November...

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Focus Group Discussion Training

Focus Group Discussion Training

Focus Group Discussion Training:- Contraceptive Induced Menstrual Changes (CIMC) Measurement Study. Dr Amelia Mackenzie working in the FHI 360 Contraceptive Research, Development, and Introduction Global Programs and Science visited WMRU in early November to conduct a...

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REDCap Symposium

REDCap Symposium

Amanda Mona, WMRU Data Manager attended the annual REDCap Africa Symposium in October 2024 where she presented her experience in developing a complex data entry programme for a clinical trial. REDCap administrators and users from Africa gathered for technical...

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WHO and UNFPA Consultation

WHO and UNFPA Consultation

WHO and UNFPA Consultation on the role of embedded implementation research to optimize efforts to improve contraceptive method choice in health systems. Accra, Ghana, 15 to 17 October 2024 Purpose: To bring together researchers, policymakers, and global technical...

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Women’s Day

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”.

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2022 and older News

Project Engage — meeting with CONRAD

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

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...

WHO visit to WMRU

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...