10 May 2017
With only two months into South Africa’s National HIV & Behaviour Survey, teams of field workers collecting behavioural survey data and blood samples across the country have reported “an encouraging response rate from the…
21 February 2017
Press statement For immediate release Sixty thousand participants will take part in the fifth National HIV and Health Study The Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) will visit 60 000 South Africans to request their participation in the…
01 December 2016
New scientific research from South Africa strengthens international evidence that children whose parents have a life-threatening disease such as HIV can benefit from their parents communicating with them about their illness and possible death. South…
11 October 2016
Details of the event Date: 9 to 10 November 2016Time: 14.30 to 21.30 on the 9th and08.30 to 18.00 on the 10thVenue: Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town The Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC), the Restitution Foundation…
27 June 2016
Our South African laws institutionalised the idea of race. Because of this past, we have been using race to declare who is in or who is out, to pit one group against the other. In addition to skin colour, ethnicity, language, culture, or religion can…
22 June 2016
HSRC researcher involved in Canadian Government-funded “Saving Brains” research which finds: Babies exclusively breastfed to six months old half as likely to have later conduct disorders; Enriched play/stimulation to age 2 creates…
17 May 2016
Close to 4 000 people live on the street and in formal homeless shelters in the central Durban area, of which approximately 85% are male. A census conducted by the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) in partnership with and funded by the eThekwini…
07 March 2016
The relationship between HIV and associated behaviour, and population traits that drive the epidemic, vary from district to district in South Africa. Looking at the eight metros, the City of Tshwane had the lowest HIV prevalence while Ekurhuleni had…
02 October 2015
South Africa’s Labour Minister, Mildred Oliphant, her Deputy iNkosi Phathekile Holomisa – in a partnership between -“The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) and…
06 May 2015
Livestock health and development is important in the context of the socio-economic impact that livestock development has on food security, human health and well-being and sustainable livelihoods. Animal healthcare is important to ensure that…
