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I believe that a clinicians duty must include careful observation, critical analysis and
dissemination of results for the improvement of services overall. Infant and maternal mortality
are two of the most devastating challenges facing South Africa due to the HIV epidemic and
every single averted death and prevented illness brings the country closer to reaching not only its
international commitments, but more importantly its promise of a better life to its population
many of whom remain extremely vulnerable. My work focusses around merging service delivery
in the field of pediatric/adolescent HIV and Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV
with operational research. During the period of high maternal HIV prevalence in Southern Africa
this is especially relevant as HIV has led to the reversal of the gains made in reducing infant,
child and maternal mortality over the last decades. Based at the Rahima Moosa Mother and Child
Hospital with the remarkable support of my senior colleagues (Profs. A Coovadia and G
Sherman) I have been able to pursue an academic career simultaneously. I have developed and
introduced data systems that enable the HIV clinical services to report their activities. These data
systems I have then engaged in my operational research, which has involved introducing
peripartum HIV testing for mothers and their infants in the Maternity Ward (basis of my own
MSc [Med], PhD) and involved work on improving follow-up of HIV positive mothers and their
exposed infants. I have been able to use this resource for supervising masters (MMed) students in
the Department of Pediatrics. As the principal investigator for the site Rahima Moosa Mother
and Child Hospital, I assist with contribution to the International epidemiological Databases for
the Evaluation of AIDS (IeDEA-Southern African region). I have played a Principal Investigator
role on the “Latency and Early neOnatal Provision of Anti-Retroviral Drugs (LEOPARD) –
Observational and Clinical Trial” and helped coordinate the “Finding Infants with HIV Disease:
Evaluation of Resistance, PMTCT Failures and Linking Access to Care (The FInHDER Study)”.
My current foci of attention are Point-of-Care infant HIV diagnostics as well as mental health in
adolescents with HIV.
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Journal of the International AIDS Societyno. 7 (2024): e26303-e26303
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