HIV Activist, @IMPRINT_NIHRGHR Community Engagement Lead,@HIVpxresearch Advocacy Fellow,@PreventionAC Board Member, @bonelaethics Vice Board Chairperson
Botswana🇧🇼
Joined June 2022
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Pleased to be facilitating and presenting at the Wits Mycology Community Engagement and Involvement Workshop in Johannesburg, sharing IMPRINT CAB experiences and exploring how researchers can engage communities meaningfully.
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We are followers and Students of the Phenomenal Late Philly Bongoley Lutaaya! Join us tonight 23rd October 2026 as we share the current context of Living with HIV and AIDS in Uganda.@UNAIDS_UG @TASOUganda @UGANDACCM @aidscommission @cehurduganda @NAFOPHANU @Uganetlaw
Philly Lutaaya broke the silence; let’s break the stigma!
Join our X Space to honour his legacy and champion dignity, love and community leadership in ending HIV stigma.
🗓️ Friday, 23 Oct | 🕗 8 PM
#HomeOfChampions #PhillyLutaayaDay2026
#NAFOPHANUatHome
In Capetown for the AVAC Clinical Trial Design Academy. Community voices must help shape HIV research, from the questions we ask to how trials are designed. Advancing prevention, treatment and cure together.
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Socrates and I pondering the future in 2005
On 2 September 2026, I will remember my first day as a political activist at Salt River High School and my socialist journey with thousands of comrades and friends over the last 50 years.
Above all, although I did not finish school, my education is the best anyone anywhere could have hoped for because of my mentors and peers.
To the mentors who have died - long life in our memories and histories.
Jean Naidoo
Theresa Solomon
Dullah Omar
Lettie Malindi
Zohra Mehlomakulu
Johnny Issel
Martin Legassick
To those mentors who live still
Jack Lewis (also the great love of my life)
Marcus Solomon
Rob Petersen
Paula Ensor
Jane Taylor
Edwin Cameron
Nathan Geffen
Geoff Budlender
Ann Grant
Jonathan Pollak
Alaa Abd El Fattah
My comrades present and past, lost and loved are too many to mention. They will find their names on a scroll when I draw my last breath.
Tonight, I am content to live or to die but as long as I live and I will, we can work for justice, equality, freedom and dignity with solidarity, reason and conscience.
All of us. Together.
Zackie – at Cape Town, South Africa
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@EffectTrial results out AIDS 2026
Headline 21% 6m mortality ⬇️ w/ flucytosine + fluconazole in adults w/ cryptococcal antigenaemia. Though not stat. significant, this is a clinically important reduction. Bigger effects in ⬆️ CrAg, Tanzania, men. Need implementation studies
Dr Gaerolwe Masheto delivering Opening Remarks at the Botswana HIV Cure Symposium in Gaborone.
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Boko commends BHP research impact. BHP met him at the Office of the President, presenting its mandate. He praised BHP’s impact in HIV & COVID-19 research and capacity building. Urged expansion in cancer, HIV discordancy, drug resistance and African-led funding.
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BHP was honoured to host Professor Tobias Bonhoeffer, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence and Advisor to the President of the Max Planck Society (Germany) for cooperation with African partners.
#collaboration #Partnership #excellence
Honoured to join the @M_R_F conference at BMA House in London. Presenting my poster on Patient and Community Engagement in Implementation Research, because meaningful progress starts with elevating real patient and community experiences.
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One week until the Meningitis Research Foundation Conference 2025.
Explore global data, policy, vaccine access and lived experience - all in one event.
📅 18th-19th November
📍 London
Register now: meningitis.org/mrf-conferenc…
#MRFConference25 #DefeatMeningitis
ALT Meningitis Research Foundation Conference 2023. The attendees are watching the stage, where a speaker panel is about to take place.
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It’s spooky season - but while Halloween frights are just for fun, meningitis is scary all year round. 🎃
Know the signs. Trust your instincts.
Learn more: ow.ly/2Fj950Xj7Oc
#MeningitisAwareness #Halloween #DefeatMeningitis
ALT Infographic from Meningitis Research Foundation showing meningitis signs and symptoms. Icons illustrate: fever and/or vomiting, stiff neck, avoiding bright light, sleepy or difficult to wake, seizures (fits), rash, confusion, muscle, joint and/or limb pain, cold hands and feet, and severe headache. Text reminds that symptoms can appear in any order and urges to trust instincts and get medical help fast. Includes #DefeatMeningitis and meningitis.org.
A 25-year-old HIV drug (3TC/lamivudine) is showing promise in protecting the aging brain
✔️ Cuts inflammation
✔️ Preserves neurons
✔️ Boosts memory in mice
Now in Alzheimer’s clinical trials. Imagine repurposing HIV meds to fight dementia!
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We hosted the Botswana HIV Cure Research Literacy Academy Workshop. I presented on the basic science on HIV cure research, Ernest from BHP presented key studies at BHP, and Sekgabo spoke on what a cure means to people living with HIV.
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✨Join the 8/21 (1pm US ET) Virtual ESI Talk w/Dr Catherine Koofhethile! ✨Sr Research Scientist @AidsHarvard @HarvardChanSPH 🦠Advancing research & mentorship in #Botswana & beyond! RSVP @📢mailchi.mp/045e6a7de3e4/aug2… @WhitneyCIrie @Boudries_BCGE @RogerShapiro999 @NAHPABotswana
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#UequalsU is a key aspect of #HIV treatment adherence counselling in #Cambodia🇰🇭 where >98% of people on treatment have achieved viral suppression.
Learn more: bit.ly/3Zrgzcy
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There is still work and efforts needed in ensuring that #UequalsU is clearly, consciously, and confidently understood, implemented, and utilized by members of the community, facility, and government so as to tackle stigma, support adherance and retention in the fight against HIV.
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In 2023, 630,000 people died from AIDS related illness, 120,000 of whom were children. These deaths are from preventable and treatable diseases. TB remains the number 1 reason for many aids related deaths. Cryptococcal meningitis remains a huge problem both in diagnosis and treatment.
@gnpplus is honored to join activists and partners this week to plan for PLHIV-led advocacy on Advanced HIV Disease (#AHD) hosted by our partner @afrocab_hiv
#CommunitiesFirst #EndAids #Aliveandthrive @floriako @SboNkosiZA
Health care delivery and HIV scientific research once complementary may now compete for the same shrinking resources. I share my thoughts in the attached link.
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As the global HIV response evolves, the unique needs of people aging with HIV remain overlooked. From comorbidities to stigma and isolation, older adults face challenges that demand urgent attention. I share my thoughts in the attached link.
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