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Research Themes
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HIV Treatment Outcomes and Guidelines
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Linkage, Retention and Adherence for HIV Treatment in South Africa
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Costs, Cost-Effectiveness and Benefits of HIV Care and Treatment
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Tuberculosis and HIV in South Africa
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Cost and Budget Modelling
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Sexual and Reproductive Health
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Primary Health Care
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Non-Communicable Diseases
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Research Capacity Building
Research Programs
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Evaluations to Inform Decisions using Economics and Epidemiology (EVIDENCE)
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Indlela: Behavioural Insights for Better Health
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COVID-19 Response
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Innovations Research on AIDS (INROADS)
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AMBIT: Alternative Models of ART Delivery – Optimizing the Benefits
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Using routinely collected laboratory data to evaluate South Africa’s national HIV treatment program through a national HIV cohort
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Policy Briefs
Cost and outcomes of drug-susceptible TB treatment at public and private primary healthcare clinics, Johannesburg South Africa
South Africa carries 3% of the world’s tuberculosis (TB) case burden and is experiencing a dual TB/HIV epidemic: 59% of adult TB patients are also HIV positive.[1] There are no recent published estimates on the costs and outcomes of drug-susceptible TB in South Africa for adults in an out-patient setting with the exception of one ...
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Journal Articles
Using intervention mapping in motivational interviewing training to improve ART uptake in Gauteng, South Africa
In South Africa, lay HIV counsellors are at the forefront of many HIV-related behavioural interventions. However, they have limited formal counselling training and little ongoing in-service support, leading to considerable variability in approaches to counselling. We describe the use of Intervention Mapping to develop a motivational interviewing counselling training and support program, titled “Thusa-Thuso – ...
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Journal Articles
Delays in repeat HIV viral load testing for those with elevated viral loads: A national perspective from South Africa
The World Health Organization recommends national programs use viral load monitoring for patients on ART1 to determine whether treatment has been successful and to guide clinicians on when to switch treatment to second-line regimens, indicated if the virus is resistant to first-line therapy. Not all countries are able to provide viral load testing as part ...
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Vacancies
Senior/Principal Researcher – Health Economics
We seek a dynamic, enthusiastic, and self-motivated quantitative senior researcher to be part of our health economics research and implementation science portfolio. This portfolio focuses on the costs, cost-effectiveness, and benefits of healthcare interventions, health financing and health systems, and other priority public health challenges, with opportunities for both primary data collection and mathematical modeling. ...
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News
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HE2RO contributes to NDOH’s Covid-19 modelling
We are pleased to announce that we are now able to share the reports on the projections of the National Covid-19 Epi Model to which...
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HE2RO has been awarded a new 5-year Co-operative Agreement from USAID
HE2RO has been awarded a new 5-year Co-operative Agreement from USAID. This new program, the HIV/AIDS Economics and Research Activity, called EVIDENCE will run...
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HE2RO is now a HBNU approved Fogarty Global Health Training Program Site
HE2RO has been approved to be a HBNU site for the Fogarty Global Health Training Program. The program provides opportunities to generate a new...
