Fareed Abdullah @fareedabdullah0
HIV Clinician, Director of the Office of AIDS & TB Research at the South African Medical Research Council, former CEO of the South African National AIDS Council samrc.ac.za Pretoria, South Africa Joined May 2015-
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SPOTLIGHT's Faces of Health: Meet Professor Rudo Mathivha. @SECTION27news @BienneHuisman @russ421 @fareedabdullah0 @FrancoisVenter3 @WitsHealthFac @GautengHealth “It’s not about me, it’s about the patient that I’m helping”, says head of trauma at Bara spotlightnsp.co.za/2023/04/03/fac…
.@UNAIDS welcomes the @MedsPatentPool @ViiVHC announcement of 3 licenses signed with generic manufacturers for long-acting PrEP. It's vital & urgent that long-acting HIV prevention medicines are made available and affordable everywhere they are needed. unaids.org/en/resources/p…
Using #AI to predict and ultimately prevent aortic dissection Our new @TheLancet digital medicine essay thelancet.com/journals/lance… @MarkELindsay @patrick_ellinor @jpirruccello
South Africa’s first Covid-19 Antigen Self-test launched. Today, the Medical Diagnostech (Pty) Ltd announces the launch of South Africa’s first Covid-19 Antigen Self-test with companion mobile phone application, HealthPulse TestNow. samrc.ac.za/media-release/…
“Each person diagnosed with TB should receive quality family-centred TB counselling by trained health workers so that people can be supported throughout their TB journey to overcome difficulties such as TB stigma or depression.” - @ingridsuidA #ThinkTB #EndTB #YesWeCanEndTB
“Each person diagnosed with TB should receive quality family-centred TB counselling by trained health workers so that people can be supported throughout their TB journey to overcome difficulties such as TB stigma or depression.” - @ingridsuidA #ThinkTB #EndTB #YesWeCanEndTB
If you are in Jozi or can get there…..
This #WorldTBDay, #YesWeCanEndTB by effectively practicing the national guidelines to treat TB & by providing guidance for implementation, patient management once TPT is initiated, monitoring and evaluation criteria. #YesWeCanEndTB Read guidelines here: bit.ly/3ZGBM0h
Summary of data supporting less #LongCovid with Omicron and its subvariants (along with more immunity built via vaccinations, infections, and their combinations) science.org/content/articl… @NewsfromScience @ScienceMagazine by @jcouzin
Thanks @SpotlightNSP for the opportunity to write an op-ed on the TB Recovery Plan. More here: ⬇️ #ThinkTB #YesWeCanEndTB @HealthZA @Auruminstitute @TBHIVCare @ruvandhi @HeleneMarivdW @ingridsuidA @reniercoetzee @TheUnion_TBLH @tb_ppm @StopTB
Thanks @SpotlightNSP for the opportunity to write an op-ed on the TB Recovery Plan. More here: ⬇️ #ThinkTB #YesWeCanEndTB @HealthZA @Auruminstitute @TBHIVCare @ruvandhi @HeleneMarivdW @ingridsuidA @reniercoetzee @TheUnion_TBLH @tb_ppm @StopTB
#WorldTBDay2023. New Guidelines Are a Step Forward for SA's TB Response. @SECTION27news @TAC @TBThinkTank_za @marcuslowx @GaurangTanna2 @ygpillay @NNdjeka @LindiweMvusi @fareedabdullah0 allafrica.com/stories/202303… via @allafrica
In @JAMAInternalMed today, 2 new papers on #LongCovid, one a systematic meta-analysis showing protection associated with vaccination--a 43% reduction, and the other with Paxlovid--a 26% reduction I wrote about this w/context in a new @Substack post erictopol.substack.com
SPOTLIGHT on #WorldTBDay2023. TB preventive therapy supply constraints delay wider roll-out of shorter regimen in SA. @SECTION27news @TAC @HealthZA @DrAShapiro @HarryHausler @fareedabdullah0 @TBAC_sa @MRCza @SAHPRA1 @RHAPnews @TBHIVCare @DTHF_SA @NNdjeka dailymaverick.co.za/article/2023-0…
News24.com | Nontsikelelo Zwedala: An unsung hero of the struggle for HIV medicines dlvr.it/SlF7YD
New report from WHO on XBB.1.5. South Africa data was used as important source of info. Take home message ‘available information does NOT suggest that XBB.1.5 has additional public health risks than other currently circulating Omicron lineages. bit.ly/3mX2p2I
Those who falsely claim that they are a danger are wrong and they should be held to account for their views.
It is not my role to comment on the role of parliament, and I respect that it is a separate arm of government, but I hope that how this event happened will be investigated. I and my administration believe that vaccines have and continue to save lives.
Vaccines will continue to be offered to residents and remain an integral part of the Western Cape Government's fight against the Coronavirus.
The international scientific evidence clearly shows that Covid-19 vaccines are the best tools to manage the virus and have saved and continue to save lives.

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