SATuRN & CAPRISA HIV & TB Advanced Clinical Care Workshop, Makaranga Garden Lodge, Durban, South Africa, 12 to 13 March 2015

The Southern Africa Treatment and Resistance Network (SATuRN) and the Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA) are organizing a HIV & TB Advanced Clinical Care Workshop. This workshop is funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) & PEPFAR program in South Africa.
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The workshop program will follow and expand on the successful format of previous SATuRN and CAPRISA workshops and will include presentations of anti-retroviral (ARV) and anti-TB treatment programs and clinical case management of HIV and TB patients. Emphasis will be put on how to manage HIV & drug resistance as well as advert effects of treatment.

The workshop is targeted at clinicians, clinical virologists and nurses working in the public sector who are currently involved in the treatment of patients with HIV and TB in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.


Download application form
(Application deadline: 2 March 2015)

Please submit application forms to:
Ms Xolile Kineri
Tel: +27 31 260 4108
Fax: +27 35 550 7565
Email: xkineri@africacentre.ac.za
Workshop Dates: 12 to 13 March 2015

Costs: Attendance at the Workshop is Free*.

*Transport and accommodation will be organized for participants outside Durban and Pietermaritzburg metropolitan areas.

Organizers: Kogie Naidoo, Nesri Padayachi, Moherndran Archary & Tulio de Oliveira

Sponsors: CDC/PEPFAR Advanced Clinical Care Program at CAPRISA.

The workshop is organized by: CAPRISA and Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.

Invited presenters:





Dr. Halima Dawood, KwaZulu-Natal Department of Health , South Africa

Dr. Henry Sunpath, KZN Department of Health, South Africa

Dr. Justen Manasa, Africa Centre and UKZN, South Africa

Dr. Kogie Naidoo, CAPRISA, South Africa

Dr. Moherndran Archary, CAPRISA and UKZN, South Africa

Dr. Nesri Padayatchi, CAPRISA, South Africa

Dr. Nombulelo Magula, UKZN, South Africa

Dr. Pravi Moodley, NHLS, South Africa

Dr. Richard Lessells, LSHTM, United Kingdom

Prof. Tulio de Oliveira, Africa Centre and UKZN, South Africa

Prof. Yunus Moosa, UKZN, South Africa

Links to web-resources


Report on the SATuRN & CAPRISA HIV & TB Advanced Clinical Care Workshop, Makaranga Garden Lodge, Durban, South Africa, 12 to 13 March 2015


Southern African Treatment and Resistance Network (SATuRN) website at bioafrica.net/saturn


Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA)



Page last updated by Tulio de Oliveira, January 2015