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MRC/Wits Agincourt Unit - excellent public health research making rural voices are heard #HDSS @Wits School of Public Health @HealthZA @saprin_mrc

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Read results from the first study to investigate associations of psychosocial wellbeing and self-regulation with physical activity, in a sample of preschool children from low-income settings in South Africa tinyurl.com/y6lgv57e

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There seems to ne a case for using the cardiovascular health index (CVHI) as a simple tool to monitor cardiovascular health at a population and clinical level in Sub-Saharan Africa tinyurl.com/1bywgg3j

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Read what linkages service providers in rural primary care clinics in high HIV burden settings draw between the challenges they face and their ability to provide high-quality HIV care, all potentially resulting in poor retention in care. tinyurl.com/48lkzmv4

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Casa Africa is holding a webinar on Covid-19 in Africa, with various experts with local experience who will put in context and explain the current pandemic on the continent. Wed, 9 Mar at 18:00 Canarian time/ 16:00 SAST. casafrica.es/es/evento/webi…

Casa Africa is holding a webinar on Covid-19 in Africa, with various experts with local experience who will put in context and explain the current pandemic on the continent.  Wed, 9 Mar at 18:00 Canarian time/ 16:00 SAST.
casafrica.es/es/evento/webi…
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Congratulations, Ryan Wagner, on receiving the Dr Charles Kyeyune Memorial Prize at the Wits Faculty of Health Sciences 2022 Awards Ceremony! agincourt.co.za/?p=4708

Congratulations, Ryan Wagner, on receiving the Dr Charles Kyeyune Memorial Prize at the Wits Faculty of Health Sciences 2022 Awards Ceremony! agincourt.co.za/?p=4708
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What's the impact of Covid-19 on mortality? We are leading an Excess Mortality initiative to answer this question in a range of rural and urban sub-Saharan African and South Asian settings under continuous HDSS surveillance agincourt.co.za/?p=4717 Tshegofatso Seabi Wits University

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Brilliant session on Equitable Health Systems at Forum for Global Challenges with our Denny Mabetha leader of action learning programme with CHWs in rural 🇿🇦 VAPAR and with Agnes Binagwaho speaking from 🇷🇼 what a panel! 👏 #F4GC

Brilliant session on Equitable Health Systems at <a href="/Forum_4GC/">Forum for Global Challenges</a> with our <a href="/DennyMabetha/">Denny Mabetha</a> leader of action learning programme with CHWs in rural 🇿🇦 <a href="/VAPARorg/">VAPAR</a> and with <a href="/agnesbinagwaho/">Agnes Binagwaho</a> speaking from 🇷🇼 what a panel! 👏 #F4GC
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Communities CAN set priority issues, and inform policy & planning. Read how we facilitated productive engagement between communities and service providers on the issue of safe water in MRC/Wits-Agincourt Unit. @jayhove6 Lucia D'Ambruoso 💚 Rhian Twine theconversation.com/community-dial…

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Congratulations to PSG graduate David Etoori who's been awarded LSHTM's Cicely Williams Prize for an outstanding doctoral thesis on research which advances the health of vulnerable populations! 🎉🎉 David's thesis was a mixed methods study of women living with HIV in South Africa

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Congratulations David Etoori on your outstanding MRC/Wits-Agincourt Unit thesis on loss to follow-up among women in the Option B+ programme - and earning the the LSHTM's Cicely Williams Prize for advancing the health of vulnerable populations! David Etoori Wits Faculty of Health Sciences Wits University

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Multisite African study suggests 1 in 8 Africans live with kidney disease. But current creatinine tests for kidney function significantly underestimates this. Cystatin C tests are more reliable for kidney disease screening in African populations. Wits School of Public Health thelancet.com/journals/langl…

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Seminar | Professor Pim Martens from Maastricht University will discuss the complexities and connections between our own well-being and that of the animals with whom we live in the context of climate change and biodiversity loss. Register online here: wits-za.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Seminar | Professor Pim Martens from Maastricht University will discuss the complexities and connections between our own well-being and that of the animals with whom we live in the context of climate change and biodiversity loss. Register online here: wits-za.zoom.us/webinar/regist…
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Tollman and Kahn celebrate Agincourt at 30! Hybrid event, register your attendance here: tinyurl.com/2p8zd5d2. Date: 29 August 2022 Time: 17:00 for 17:30 Venue: Marie Curie Lecture Theatre, 7 York Road, Parktown, Johannesburg

Tollman and Kahn celebrate Agincourt at 30!  
Hybrid event, register your attendance here: tinyurl.com/2p8zd5d2.

Date: 29 August 2022
Time: 17:00 for 17:30
Venue: Marie Curie Lecture Theatre, 7 York Road, Parktown, Johannesburg