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National Institute for Communicable Diseases
The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) is the national public health insitute for South Africa. It provides reference microbiology,virology,epidemiology, surveillance and public health research to support the government’s response to communicable disease threats.
The NICD is organised into functional Centres, bringing together expertise in both reference microbiology and epidemiology to enable an intergrated public health response to communicable disease threats.
The NICD primarily supports the programmes of the National and Provincial Departments of Health. As well as national support, the NICD also provides public health services such as collaborating laboratory or regional reference laboratory functions for global programmes of the World Health Organisation (WHO)
The NICD has established co-operatives agreements with partner national public health institutions such as the Center for Disease Control (CDC) and NIH/NIAID of the USA, the European Centre for Disease Control (ECDC) and the Health Protection Agency (HPA) of the United Kingdom, as well as other internationally recognised public health insitutions.
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There have been many advances made in the prevention and treatment of pneumonia, but providing for people’s basic needs can help reduce the disease burden.
South Africa is piloting a new technique as it drives to eliminate malaria.
The global target to eradicate polio is being missed because a number of countries are struggling to reach high vaccine coverage.
Fungal diseases can be life-threatening for people living with HIV, cancer patients and those admitted to hospital.
There have been ten Ebola outbreaks recorded from the DRC between 1976 and 2018 from different locations. This implies that the virus is widely spread.
The response to the latest ebola outbreak in the DRC has been rapid, well coordinated and well resourced.
Health authorities have raised the alarm after several cases of human rabies were reported in a space of four months.
South Africa has made tremendous progress towards meeting the 90-90-90 targets but there are some challenges preventing it from reaching the goals set by UNAIDS.
A South African child, who has been in HIV remission for nearly nine years, could help researchers understand how to make remission possible for millions of other HIV positive people.
In the 50 years following the discovery of the Marburg virus there have only been 12 known outbreaks.
Health authorities in South Africa have launched an investigation to find the food source that has resulted in an unprecedented increase in listeria cases across the country.
The Ebola virus is known to occur in the Democratic Republic of Congo and outbreaks are not entirely unexpected. But health authorities must take swift action to contain the outbreak.
More than 250 000 patients at highest risk for cryptococcal meningitis but no symptoms will be screened in South Africa annually to reduce the number of deaths.
Hand, foot and mouth disease may not be a public health priority, but parents and caregivers at day-care centres should still be careful about its spread.
Plague, one of the deadliest diseases in the world, has been reported in several African countries in the past decade.
Two major clinical trials will be conducted in South Africa in 2016 to test ways of preventing new HIV infections.
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Senior Pathologist, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Co-head of the Centre for Respiratory Disease and Meningitis, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Senior Medical Scientist, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Senior medical epidemiologist, Centre for Tuberculosis, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Epidemiologist, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Principal Medical Scientist and Head of Laboratory for Antimalarial Resistance Monitoring and Malaria Operational Research, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Principal Medical Scientist at National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Medical Epidemiologist, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Head: Centre for Enteric Diseases, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Epidemiologist, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Medical epidemiologist: Centre for Enteric Diseases,, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Data Manager, Center for Respiratory Diseases and Meningitis, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Principal Pathologist, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Medical scientist, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Senior scientist, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
