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Webinar series spotlighting Covid-19 issues and research

Starting next week, MedicalBrief, partnering with Discovery and the Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation (DTHF) in conjunction with the SA Medical Association, the SA Private Practitioners Forum and the Unity Forum for Family Practitioners, will be running series of webinars around Covid-19, examining the issues, research and, increasingly, controversies surrounding the pandemic. The webinars will make accessible tolocal practitioners the frontline expertise of leading global experts in an hour-long format which will allow for a robust exchange of ideas.

The first webinar in this series will be held on Thursday, 14 May 2020, at 7pm (CAT). The webinar is free and accredited for CPD points.

As health workers throughout the African continent brace themselves for a possibly overwhelming flood of COVID-19 hospitalisation in the approaching months, we will have Dr Nicky Longley, who is currently working in a London hospital, in conversation with Prof Linda-Gail Bekker of the DTHF.

Longley – a clinical lecturer at The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and infectious diseases consultant at the Hospital of Tropical Diseases – will speak about her experience and its implications for South Africa, where she worked for some years in the field of infectious diseases. She will address the challenges to medical professionals of working at the COVID-19 coal face; problems of co-morbidity, media exaggeration, and the the large numbers of asymptomatic people.

The series will be hosted by Professor Bekker, Deputy Director of the Desmond Tutu HIV Centre at the Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town and Chief Operating Officer of the Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation. She is Principal Investigator of the US National Institutes of Health-funded University of Cape Town Clinical Trials Unit. Bekker is also the immediate past president of the International AIDS Society and co-chair of the Research For Prevention (R4P) Conference 2020

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[link url="https://www.medicalbrief.co.za/archives/infectious-disease-expert-on-the-great-covid-19-mask-debate-wear-them/"]Previous MedicalBrief webinar with Prof Robin Wood[/link]

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