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115 See p. 36.
116 MRC, AR 1996–1997, p. 2.
117 MRC, Strategic Plan 2005/6–2009/10 (MRC, 2004), p. 23.
118 See p. 36.
119 MRC News, 33, 2 (April 2002), p. 25.
120 Interview with Dr Tony Bunn, 21 September 2020.
121 Republic of South Africa, Intellectual Property Rights from Publicly Financed Research Act (Act 51 of 2008),
clause 2.
122 But for a different possible motive, see p. 94.
123 https://asksource.info/resources/afroaidsinfoorg.
124 F. N. Sanders, ‘Information Technology’, South African Medical Journal, 93, 1 (January 2003), p. 26.
125 South African Cochrane Centre, ‘10th Anniversary’ (pamphlet), p. 7.
126 Cape Argus, 5 November 2002, p. 7.
127 MRC, Minutes of the Executive Management Committee, 27 November 2001, Attachment: Minutes of
Grants Committee meeting, 14 and 15 November 2001, pp. 6–7.
128 MRC, Strongroom A119, boxfile ‘DoH’: Document C, ‘The MRC’s Role in AIDs Related Mortality
Research’, prepared by Debbie Bradshaw, September 2001.
129 ‘Foresight Health Report’ (c. 1998), p. 4: https://www.dst.gov.za/images/pdfs/FORESIGHT%20
HEALTH%20REPORT.pdf.
130 AIDS deaths had reduced life expectancy to 53.9 in 2003 from 63.25 in 1993. Mainly because of ARVT,
this began to rise from 2004 to reach 62.2 in 2013.
131 Interview with Professor Glenda Gray, 5 March 2022.
132 J. Nel et al., ‘Liver Intake in 24–59-Month Children from an Impoverished South African Community
Provides Enough Vitamin A to Meet Requirements’, Public Health Nutrition, 17, 12 (2014), p. 2805.
133 https://www.samrc.ac.za/news/south-africas-low-cost-doppler-ultrasound-reducing-stillbirths-and-
improving-primary-health.
134 https://www.samrc.ac.za/media-release/samrc-showcases-responsive-medical-research-and-
innovation.
135 Interview with Professor Hein Odendaal, 27 August 2020.
136 MRC, Strongroom A119, boxfile ‘EMC’: Submission to EMC from Professor A. Mbewu, MRC Interim
President, ‘Research Translation Office Policy’, 21 June 2005.
137 MRC News, May 2004, p. 25.
138 MRC, AR 2000–2001, p. 18.
139 MRC, AR 1996–1997, p. 3.
140 MRC Board Minutes, 17 August 2000, p. 11.
141 MRC, AR 2010–2011, p. 117.
142 MRC, Strongroom A119, boxfile ‘ACTS’: SETI Review 2001: Medical Research Council, p. 2.
143 MRC, AR 2004, p. 10.
144 The Lancet, 372, 9649 (1 November 2008), p. 1519.
145 The Lancet, 374, 9692 (5 September 2009).
146 MRC Board Minutes, 17 August 2001, p. 4.
147 Cited in ‘SAMRC@50’, pp. 31, 32.
148 Cited in ‘SAMRC@50’, p. 33.
149 Business Day, 30 April 2012, p. 1.
150 S. S. Abdool Karim, Revitalising the MRC: Current State of the Organisation and a Proposal for the Way
Forward (MRC, Parow, 30 July 2012), p. 5.
151 W. Gevers, Signifying Something: A South African Scientist’s Tale (Privately published, Cape Town, 2019),
p. 355.

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