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CONTENTS

GENERAL INFORMATION PERFORMANCE INFORMATION

SAMRC’S GENERAL AUDITOR’S REPORT: PROGRAMME 3: HIV, AIDS,
INFORMATION 3 PREDETERMINED OBJECTIVES 23 TB AND OTHER COMMUNICABLE
DISEASES 68
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS/ OVERVIEW OF PERFORMANCE 24
ACRONYMS 3 PROGRAMME 4: HEALTH
Service Delivery Environment 24 SYSTEMS STRENGTHENING 93
FOREWORD BY THE Organisational environment 24
CHAIRPERSON 4 PROGRAMME 5: PUBLIC
Key policy developments and HEALTH INNOVATION 105
A NOTE FROM legislative changes 24
THE PRESIDENT AND CEO 6 Progress towards achievement of PROGRAMME 6:
institutional impacts and outcomes 24 BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH 122
ACHIEVEMENTS AND
HIGHLIGHTS 8 Institutional Programme FUNDING HEALTH INNOVATION 142
Performance Information 24
Grants Innovation and
STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
AND CONFIRMATION OUTCOMES, OUTPUTS, OUTPUT Product Development 142
OF ACCURACY FOR THE INDICATORS, TARGETS AND Programme and Strategic
ANNUAL REPORT 11 ACTUAL ACHIEVEMENTS 28 Project Updates 142
RESEARCH PROGRAMMES Project Africa GRADIENT 149
STRATEGIC OVERVIEW 12
AND UNITS WITHIN THE SAMRC 34
Other Initiatives 152
OUR VISION 12 SAMRC STRATEGIC South African Population Research
RESEARCH PROGRAMMES 36 Infrastructure Network (SAPRIN) 156
OUR MISSION 12
PROGRAMME 1: HEALTH DIVISION OF RESEARCH
OUR VALUES 12 PROMOTION AND CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT 158
DISEASE PREVENTION 36
LEGISLATIVE AND OTHER Overview 158
MANDATES 13 PROGRAMME 2: MATERNAL,
CHILD AND WOMENS’S HEALTH 58
ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE 14
TRANSFORMATION
AT THE SAMRC 15
PARTNERSHIPS WITH
OTHER COUNTRIES 18