CIDRI-Africa

17/09/2025

Meet the team: A/Prof. Ursula Rohlwink. Her research interests include: tuberculous meningitis, specifically brain biomarkers of disease severity and prognosis, and mechanisms of brain injury.

10/09/2025

Meet the team: Contributing Investigator Dr Catherine Riou. Research interests: Infectious diseases (HIV/TB), immune memory, antigen-specific responses, T cell differentiation, cytokines, signal transduction and T cell lineage commitment.

03/09/2025

Meet the Team: member A/Prof. Joe Raimondo. His research interests include the pathophysiology of epilepsy; and the study of brain function and dysfunction using electrophysiological, optical imaging and computational approaches.

29/08/2025

Your weekend reads from :
first up, "Population Pharmacokinetics of Rifampicin in Plasma and Cerebrospinal Fluid in Adults With [TB] Meningitis" https://academic.oup.com/jid/article/232/2/e234/8121427;
then, "Diarrhoeal admissions among children aged

We describe rifampicin pharmacokinetics at high and standard doses (35 and 10 mg/kg) in the plasma and cerebrospinal fluid in adults with tuberculous menin

27/08/2025

Meet the team: Contributing Investigator Prof. Jo-Ann Passmore. Her research interests lie in HIV/HPV mucosal immunology, the ge***al tract, innate immunity, cytokine biomarkers, and ge***al tract immune activation.

20/08/2025

Meet the Team: Contributing Investigator A/Prof. Tolullah Oni. Her research interests include health services research, particularly in the context of co-morbidities between common infectious and non-communicable diseases.

18/08/2025

🎟️Registration Deadline: TODAY

Want to save on registration for The Union World Conference on Lung Health 2025? The early registration deadline ends today (18 Aug), so hurry and register by 23:59 CEST

Tip: Add Union membership during registration and SAVE MORE.

🎯Register Now: https://tinyurl.com/3ddpb4wt
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If you haven't seen it yet, view the📕Preliminary Programme: https://tinyurl.com/22bd59v8

18/08/2025

Look out for members Suraj Parihar (Infectious Diseases, Poster Walk, Poster Area Wed 20/08, 12:15 – 13:45) & Rudi Hazra (Cross-discipline, Poster Walk, Poster Area, Wed 20/08, 12:15 – 13:45; Innate Immunity Symposium, Hall N2 (Level 1), Fri 22/08, 10:30 – 12:00)

🤝 The full scientific program of starts today! The energy in is electric — old friends reuniting, new collaborations forming, and the joy of connecting in person again.

Not in Vienna? Our friends from the Immunology Podcast will bring you daily recaps starting tomorrow, August 19. Stay tuned!

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14/08/2025

154 million lives saved 💉

In 1974, the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) was launched by the World Health Organization to tackle high rates of vaccine-preventable disease.

50 years on, at least 154 million lives have been saved.

Learn more about this public health success in The Lancet ➡️ https://hubs.li/Q03CjFQr0

🗨️ “Stakeholders need to protect the gains of EPI, sustain coverage, target remaining gaps, and think of immunisation programmes as the foundation...of strong and resilient health systems”, say authors.

Figure below: Deaths averted, years of life saved, and years of full health gained due to vaccination

14/08/2025

13/08/2025

Meet the team: Contributing Investigator Prof. Ntobeko Ntusi is President & CEO of the SA Medical Research Council; his research interests include cardiomyopathies, inflammatory heart disease and hypertension in Africans.