Page 121 - A Widening Idea of Health and Health Research - The South African Medical Research Council from Creation to COVID

A Widening Idea of Health: The SAMRC from Creation to Covid

Whole genome sequencing, 2021: Ms Samira Ghoor, a senior scientist at the MRC Genomics
Centre, and Mr McDonald Shiri (a research technologist from Zimbabwe) loading DNA
libraries onto the sequencer for whole genome sequencing.

eminent among such information was its evidence, along with that of the Health
Systems Research Unit, of the beneficial effect of Prevention of Mother to Child
Transmissions (PMTCT) programmes and ARVT against HIV, thereby raising life
expectancy significantly in the country. As the Health Systems Research Unit proudly
observed, a survey by one of its team evaluating the efficacy of PMTCT was ‘a good

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