It is the aim of the Centre for Sustainable Malaria Control to promote collaborative research within the University of Pretoria on safer and sustainable malaria control and management.
The involved departments all have established research programmes with a focus on the elimination of malaria, and promotion of health. Since the different research groups within various UP faculties have a similar aim in combating malaria effectively without causing human health risk, it was strategic to combine all research conducted in this field in a research theme and create new opportunities for postgraduate students and guide policy makers on this issue.
Malaria is a complex parasitic disease confined mostly to tropical areas and transmitted by mosquitoes of the genus Anopheles. There are an estimated 250 million clinical cases of malaria, causing nearly a million deaths, mostly of children <5 years of age and mostly in sub-Saharan Africa. Malaria-endemic countries are faced with high cost of prevention and treatment of the disease. The Stockholm Convention seeks the elimination of chemicals, one of which is DDT (dichlorodiphenyltrichloro-ethane). DDT is used for indoor spraying for control of vectors of malaria and was permitted to be produced and used in accordance with recommendations and guidelines of the World Health Organisation (WHO) when safe, effective and affordable alternatives are not locally available. Recently more scientific evidence has become available of health effects associated with exposure to DDT. To reduce reliance on one potentially harmful compound, support is needed for integrated and multi-partner strategies of vector control and for continued development of new technologies and strategies as sustainable alternative methods.
TuksGolf Training Centre officially opened at the University of Pretoria - 17/05/2013
The University of Pretoria prides itself on its publicly recognised achievements pertaining to its various sporting fraternities. These achievements can be attributed to the University’s sporting facilities, which are of the highest quality among South African universities. To add to its quality achievements, the University of Pretoria, through TuksSport and the High Performance Centre (hpc), has now officially opened a golf training centre.
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South African law professor to report to the United Nations on Lethal Robots - 16/05/2013
South African human rights law professor, Christof Heyns, will submit a widely anticipated report on Lethal Autonomous Robots (LARs) to the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council on 29 May 2013.
Prof Heyns, from the University of Pretoria (UP), was appointed as UN Special Rapporteur on extra-judicial, summary or arbitrary executions in 2010. During last year, he conducted worldwide research on the question whether states should be allowed to use LARs - weapons that, once deployed, can use lethal force without further human intervention - during war, or peace.
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A continental Leadership Transformation Programme established - 15/05/2013
The African Union’s New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Albert Luthuli Centre for Responsible Leadership (ALCRL) recently co-hosted a roundtable aimed at establishing a continental leadership transformation programme.
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Malaria is a complex parasitic disease confined mostly to tropical areas and transmitted by mosquitoes of the genus Anopheles. There are an estimated 250 million clinical cases of malaria, causing nearly a million deaths, mostly of children <5 years of age and mostly in sub-Saharan Africa. Malaria-endemic countries are faced with high cost of prevention and treatment of the disease. The Stockholm Convention seeks the elimination of chemicals, one of which is DDT (dichlorodiphenyltrichloro-ethane). DDT is used for indoor spraying for control of vectors of malaria and was permitted to be produced and used in accordance with recommendations and guidelines of the World Health Organisation (WHO) when safe, effective and affordable alternatives are not locally available. Recently more scientific evidence has become available of health effects associated with exposure to DDT. To reduce reliance on one potentially harmful compound, support is needed for integrated and multi-partner strategies of vector control and for continued development of new technologies and strategies as sustainable alternative methods.
The University of Pretoria prides itself on its publicly recognised achievements pertaining to its various sporting fraternities. These achievements can be attributed to the University’s sporting facilities, which are of the highest quality among South African universities. To add to its quality achievements, the University of Pretoria, through TuksSport and the High Performance Centre (hpc), has now officially opened a golf training centre.
South African human rights law professor, Christof Heyns, will submit a widely anticipated report on Lethal Autonomous Robots (LARs) to the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council on 29 May 2013.
Prof Heyns, from the University of Pretoria (UP), was appointed as UN Special Rapporteur on extra-judicial, summary or arbitrary executions in 2010. During last year, he conducted worldwide research on the question whether states should be allowed to use LARs - weapons that, once deployed, can use lethal force without further human intervention - during war, or peace.
The African Union’s New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Albert Luthuli Centre for Responsible Leadership (ALCRL) recently co-hosted a roundtable aimed at establishing a continental leadership transformation programme.
Judges from five African countries (Botswana, Malawi, South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda) joined participants from 20 other African countries for a course on socio-economic rights, presented by the Centre for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria from 6 to 10 May 2013.
Speaking on TuksFM’s Bang Bang Breakfast Show, the University of Pretoria’s Vice-Chancellor and Principal, Prof Cheryl de la Rey, announced that the second Woolly Winter Campaign will be launched earlier in a bid to make it ‘bigger and better’ than the previous year’s effort.
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