Newswise — A medical microbiologist/epidemiologist in the School of Pathology , Govender’s proposed research on bacterial and fungal infections in people with advanced HIV disease (or AIDS) will now, with this NIHR funding, be applied to assess a World Health Organization package of care. Specifically, this package of care for people living with AIDS could be refined or expanded to prevent deaths from bacterial or fungal infections. The NIHR Global Research Professorship scheme funds researchers to promote effective translation of research and to strengthen research leadership at the highest academic levels.
It funds research that aims to specifically and primarily benefit people in low- and middle- income countries (LMICs). NIHR Director of the Global Health Research Programme, Professor Kara Hanson, says: “The Global Research Professorship is our flagship award. It funds researchers to translate discoveries into enhanced interventions, diagnoses and treatments.
This year, our Global Research Professors are working across a range of pertinent areas including sexual health, HIV/AIDS, mental health and multi-morbidities. I look forward to seeing how their research progresses and the difference their research will make to communities across the world.” Reducing deaths from bacterial and fungal infections in people living with HIV Professor Nelesh Govender ’s research topic is Refining Interventions to Reduce AIDS Mortality from Bacterial and Fungal Infections in Afric.