In commemoration of World TB Day 24 March 2015, a short video on the PredArt TB-IRIS clinical trial being conducted by A/Professor Graeme Meintjes and colleagues has been released as part of the European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP) presentation to the European parliament. 

The Pred-Art study is being conducted in the HIV-TB clinic in Khayelitsha, Cape Town, where the incidence of TB and HIV is very high. EDCTP and the Department of Science and Technology, South Africa, are the principal funders.

A/Professor Meintjes is based in CIDRI, is a Member of the IDM, and is of the Department of Medicine at UCT. 

Article courtesy of the Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine