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68 Dr Tom Frieden, cited at https://www.guyanatimesinternational.com/the-use-of-
antibiotics/#:~:text=%E2%80%9CIf%20we%20use%20antibiotics%20when%20not%20
needed%2C%20we,through%20Internal%20Medicine%20for%20the%20past%20two%20months.
69 MRC President’s Report, 11 February 2021, p. 6.
70 MRC, AR 2018–2019, p. 79.
71 MRC, AR 2018–2019, p. 88.
72 MRC, Revitalising the MRC, p. 19.
73 MRC, AR 2012–2013, p. 7.
74 The First National TB Prevalence Survey, South Africa, 2018: Short Report, p. 3, https://www.
knowledgehub.org.za/system/files/elibdownloads/2021-02/A4_SA_TPS%20Short%20
Report_10June20_Final_highres.pdf.
75 The Star, 25 January 2002, p. 1.
76 MRC, AR 2019–2020, p. 111.
77 R. Dinkele, ‘New Study Shows That Normal Breathing Is a Major Spreader of TB’, The Conversation, 4
November 2021.
78 The Citizen, 20 October 2021.
79 MRC, AR 2019–2020, p. 98.
80 However, in 2019 the WHO withdrew this warning.
81 UNAIDS, Get on the Fast-Track: The Life-Cycle Approach to HIV (UNAIDS, 2016), p. 35.
82 MRC President’s Report, 30 May 2016, p. 16.
83 Summary of Seminar on Prioritising Research and Evaluation for Digital Health in South Africa, 17 July
2019, p. 5, https://www.samrc.ac.za/research-reports/prioritising-research-and-evaluation-digital-
health-south-africa-july-2019.
84 See p. 80.
85 Interview with Professor Glenda Gray, 5 March 2022.
86 Interview with Dr Niresh Bhagwandin, 15 March 2022.
87 Interview with Dr Tony Mbewu 13 October 2020.
88 Interview with anonymous unit director, 6 July 2022.
89 Interview with Professor Glenda Gray, 5 March 2022.
90 Interview with Dr Niresh Bhagwandin, 15 March 2022.
91 Interview with Professor Priscilla Reddy, 3 November 2020.
92 Interview with anonymous unit director, 6 July 2022.
93 Interview with Professor Glenda Gray, 5 March 2022.
94 Interview with Professor Glenda Gray, 5 March 2022.
95 https://www.samrc.ac.za/innovation/global-health-health-innovation-accelerator.
96 https://www.samrc.ac.za/media-release/new-technology-innovation-cluster-program-strengthen-
south-africas-medical-devices.
97 Its 56-page Citizens’ Report 2016/17: Annual Report for Easy Reading was published in 2017, to be
followed by an even briefer version, the Bophelo (Life) Report between 2018 and 2020, which contained
a handful of pages in isiZulu and Sepedi too. In 2021, however, the Bophelo Report was terminated and
replaced by an external newsletter, Advancing Life, ‘one of the many research translation vehicles aimed at
impacting on the lives of South Africans’, as the MRC’s public relations manager put it (email to author
from Dumile Mlambo, 24 May 2022).
98 MRC, ‘Perception Survey Analysis’ (2015), p. 4.
99 https://www.samrc.ac.za/media-release/students-and-academics-lead-global-march-science-durban.
Chapter 6. Stress Test: The MRC and the Covid-19 Pandemic, 2020–
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