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university medical schools, 29 vitamin A, 83-4
University of Cape Town (UCT), 3, 8, 21, 26, 29, 54, vitamin B, 24
75-6, 106, 108, 112, 117 vitamin tablets, 65
University of Fort Hare, 106 Vokwana, Mr Zukela, 93
University of KwaZulu-Natal, 69 Vorster, John, 6-8, 11
University of Natal Medical School, 19, 149n29
University of Pretoria, 66, 110 W
University of Pretoria–MRC Maternal and Infant Walters, Dr Nico, 91
Health Care Research Unit, 66 waste-water, 106, 129, 130. See also Covid-19
University of South Africa (UNISA), 106 Wastewater Surveillance and Research Programme, 130
University of the Transkei, 68 water scientists, 106
University of the Western Cape (UWC), 8, 74-6, 106 waterborne diseases, 106
University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), 1, 14, 61, 91, Watson, Ms Megan, 84
112 Wellcome Trust, 55, 87, 121
University of Transkei, 74 Western Cape, 71, 115
unyonga. See joint disease Western science, medicine and technology, 4
urban whites, English-speaking, 8, 19
Africans, 47, 108 whites, health of, 3-4, 20-3, 29, 32, 38, 47, 108, 145
community-based inquiry, 38 WHO. See World Health Organization
-dwellers, 68 whole genome-sequencing platform, 112
poor, 66 Williams, Mr Brian, 91
Urbanisation and Health Newsletter, 41, 86 Willmer, Dr Tarryn, 123
Urbanization and Health - National Research Witrand Mental Institution, Potchefstroom, 22
Programme, 41, 42 Wits–MRC Rural Public Health and Health Transition
urbanization, 38, 41-2, 45 Research Unit, 68, 135
US. See United States Witwatersrand University, 53, 68-9, 74-5, 99, 106, 110,
UWC. See University of the Western Cape 140
Women’s Health Group, 67
V Woods, Professor Dave, 48
Vaccine and Infectious Diseases Analytics Extramural Woordeboek van Afrikaanse geneeskundeterme, 7
Research Unit, 140 World Health Organization (WHO), 29, 55, 67, 79-80,
vaccines, 52, 59, 75, 97, 109, 130, 133, 141, 146 87, 116, 118, 121, 138, 141
Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Analytics Research African Regional Office, 79
Unit, 110 programmes, 87
Van der Spuy, Dr Gian, 80 World War II, 4
van Heerden, Dr Philip, 34, 35-6, 42, 48, 48 Wound Healing and Keloid Scarring Research Unit, 108
van Rensburg, George, 34 Wynchank, Dr Sinclair, 51
Veenendal, Mr Basil, 80
Venter, Dr Rina, 43 Y
violence, 39, 62, 70, 106, 115 Yach, Dr Derek, 38-9, 41-2, 43, 47-8, 71-2, 151n39
domestic, 68 Youth Risk Behaviour Surveys (between 2002 and 2011),
gender-based violence (GBV), 67, 115, 141, 146 72
Violence, Injury and Peace Research Unit, 106
viral infections, 112 Z
Virodene, 61 Zimbabwe, 45
visitors (scientific delegations), 118 Zuma, Jacob, 115

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