Mareli Claassens

Role(s) / Profession(s)

• Physician

Organization

• Desmond Tutu TB Centre, Stellenbosch University
  Website: http://sun025.sun.ac.za/portal/page/portal/Health_Sciences/English/Centres%20and%20Institutions/Desmond%20Tutu%20TB%20Centre Type: Academic Institution Country: South Africa About: TB and HIV are two of the five core research areas of the Faculty of Health Sciences and the overall aim of the Desmond Tutu TB Centre is to facilitate collaboration between the many researchers involved in these a diseases. The objectives of the Desmond Tutu TB Centre are: * to conduct relevant original basic and applied research, as well as to provide education and training to students and the community on all aspects relating to tuberculosis; * to facilitate the optimal growth and deployment of expertise and infrastructure in the University and the Faculty so that research, education and training in the field of tuberculosis can be practiced at the highest possible level; * to foster and facilitate appropriate collaboration between all possible role-players at every level of the community in the Western Cape, Southern Africa and abroad to combat tuberculosis; and * to contribute significantly to the control of tuberculosis in Southern Africa, the African Continent and global communities through research, education and training.

Work Location(s)

• South Africa

Mareli's Communities

• Adherence & Retention
• MDR-TB Treatment & Prevention
• TB Infection Control

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