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Eben Mouton

Awards and milestones

Celebrating Mr Eben Mouton's leadership and service

As Mr Eben Mouton, Senior Director: Business Management, retires at the end of March, Stellenbosch University’s (SU) Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences...
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Porridge

Medicine and health

Iron supplement absorption preserved in children with HIV and boosted by prebiotics

New research shows that iron from supplements and fortified foods is well-absorbed in children living with virally suppressed HIV, and that administering iron...

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Fitbone Surgery

Medicine and health

Tygerberg-SU surgeons first to perform novel limb reconstruction in South Africa

A team of orthopaedic surgeons at Tygerberg Hospital recently achieved a South African first when they performed an innovative limb reconstruction surgery that...

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Prof Jean B Nachega

Institutional news

Infectious disease specialist appointed BMRI director

The internationally renowned infectious disease specialist Prof Jean B Nachega has been appointed Full Professor of Infectious Diseases and part-time Director...

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Marieke van der Zalm

Awards and milestones

Van der Zalm awarded EDCTP’s Female Scientific Leadership Prize for sub-Saharan Africa

Paediatrics and Child Health Associate Professor Marieke van der Zalm of the Desmond Tutu Tuberculosis Centre (DTTC) is this year’s recipient of the Female...

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HeartWorks

Arts, languages and social sciences

HeartWorks: Fine arts and biomedical students reconsider the human heart

When thinking about the human heart, how can artists represent this multi-faceted organ to include all its complexities? Can art represent the heart both...

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Medical

Media release

E2D collaboration will ensure best evidence informs healthcare policy decision-making

“The implementation of National Health Insurance (NHI) will require extensive changes to the South African health system (including funding mechanisms...

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