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Annexure B: Acronyms

4IR Fourth Industrial Revolution GC Grand Challenges
AGSA Auditor-General of South Africa GIPD Grants Innovation and Product
Development Unit
BGI Beijing Genomics Institute
HEI Higher Education Institutions
BMGF Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
HCT HIV Counselling and Testing
NHSP Bongani Mayosi National Health Scholars
Programme HVTN HIV Vaccine Trials Network
BRICS Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa HIV Human Immunodeficiency Virus
BRICS+ Intergovernmental organisation of ten HRH Human Resources for Health
countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, HSRC Human Sciences Research Council
South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, Indonesia,
Iran and the United Arab Emirates) ICT Information and Communications
Technology
BRILLIANT Bringing Innovation to cLinical and
Laboratory research to end HIV In Africa ICF International Classification of Functioning,
through New vaccine Technology Disability and Health
CSSFF Chan Soon-Shiong Family Foundation IPF Intimate Partner Femicide
CEO Chief Executive Officers IPV Intimate Partner Violence
CFO Chief Financial Officer IMU Intramural Research Units
CEPI Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness LLM Large Language Models
Innovations LMICs Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Code Code of Business Conduct Framework MeDDIC Medical Device and Diagnostic Innovation
Policy Cluster

CUPS Contracting Unit for Primary Services MTDP Medium-Term Development Plan
COVID-19 Coronavirus disease MTSF Medium-Term Strategic Framework
CSIR Council of Scientific and Industrial MASTRU Mental Health, Alcohol, Substance Use
Research and Tobacco Research Unit

DHS Demographic and Health Surveys NDOH National Department of Health
DSI Department of Science and Innovation NDP 2030 National Development Plan 2030
EMC Executive Management Committee NHI National Health Insurance
EMU Extramural Research Units NHRC National Health Research Committee

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