What lessons can we learn from Covid 19?

Q&A with Prof. Shabir Madhi: What lessons can we learn from Covid 19?

Source : Wits University OFFICIAL – Q&A With Prof. Shabir Madhi

2022-03-25T10:05:00+02:0023 Jun 2020|

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Wits VIDA recently published important work investigating Covid vaccine hesitancy in Soweto: COVID-19 Vaccination Rollout: Aspects of Acceptability in South Africa. Read the full paper and watch the video explaining the findings here: www.mdpi.com/2076-393X/10/9/1379 ... See MoreSee Less

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Scientists hard at work! In the top image Medical Scientist, Lara Van Der Merwe is holding a Fluidigm plate. These plates allow our scientists to screen 90 samples against 115 different targets simultaneously. The reaction set allows us to serotype Streptococcus pneumoniae (detect 94 serotypes) and to also detect and quantify common viral and bacterial pathogens - it is the most comprehensive high-throughput quantitative molecular serotyping reaction set developed to date and it was optimised and validated here at Wits VIDA! The assay is used to monitor nasopharyngeal carriage in both urban and rural communities in South Africa and to serotype pneumococcus in a cohort of children that received alternate doses of the Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV). In the second image, Lara is using Real-Time PCR Analysis Software in the BIOMARK instrument to analyse the Fluidigm data.Wits Faculty of Health Sciences #Science #WomenInSTEM #medicalresearch ... See MoreSee Less

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Meet our Team! Wits VIDA Medical Scientist Christian Mukendi is seen here working in a Biosafety Cabinet. He is washing differentiated HL60 cells with Hanks' Balanced Salt Solution (HBSS) in preparation for the Opsonophagocytic Assay (OPA) assay. #Science #medicalresearch #medicalsciences Wits Faculty of Health Sciences ... See MoreSee Less

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Members of our clinical trials team represented Wits VIDA at the Zola Clinic Open Day this week. Mothers were gifted with essential baby items, and child health awareness as well as the importance of childhood vaccinations was promoted. ... See MoreSee Less

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Watch: Prof Madhi on protecting young infants through maternal vaccination youtube.com/watch?v=jHKZw9I7qAQWits - University of the Witwatersrand eNCAnews ... See MoreSee Less

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Congratulations to VIDA Ph.D. Research Fellow in Vaccinology, William McMahon on winning the Best Student Oral Presentation in Clinical Sciences and Therapeutics for Health at this year's Wits - University of the Witwatersrand Faculty of Health Sciences Research Day!"My presentation focussed on T cell responses induced by the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 (AZD1222) vaccine in response to wild-type SARS-CoV-2 (ancestral virus) among people living with and without HIV in South Africa. Results presented (although not yet published) belong to a sub-study allocated to my Ph.D. research project in Vaccinology which broadly aims to investigate cell-mediated immunity induced by Covid-19 vaccines and SARS-CoV-2 infection. This sub-study forms part of the main Covid-19 vaccine trial (COV005) conducted at Wits VIDA which assessed the safety and immunogenicity of AZD1222 in people living with and without HIV in South Africa. Results of the main trial have been published in Lancet HIV (DOI: doi.org/10.1016/S2352-3018(21)00157-0)" ... See MoreSee Less

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Wits VIDA staff and students representing at the Wits - University of the Witwatersrand Faculty of Health Sciences research day - come and say hi and learn more about our work! ... See MoreSee Less

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Witsies Tamiru Abiye, Professor of Hydrogeology in Geosciences; Sehliselo ‘Selo’ Ndlovu, Professor of Metallurgical & Materials Engineering and DSI/NRF SARChI Chair in Hydrometallurgy and Sustainable Development; and Shabir Madhi, Professor of Vaccinology and Dean of Health Sciences (all pictured below left to right) won the Researcher, Capacity Development, and Lifetime Achievement awards respectively at the 2021/2022 NSTF-South32 Awards, the 'Science Oscars'. Read their inspiring stories of research for good here: bit.ly/3zDXk3j ... See MoreSee Less

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