Division of Infectious Diseases
??The Division of Infectious Diseases at Tygerberg Hospital and the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at Stellenbosch 肆客足球 is engaged in comprehensive education, research, and clinical services related to the diagnosis, management and prevention of infections in the community and the hospital environment and the promotion of rational antimicrobial use across all levels of care.
Key clinical focus areas include people with HIV, including severe opportunistic infections and co-infections like hepatitis B and tuberculosis, antimicrobial resistant hospital acquired infections and outbreaks of highly communicable infections like viral haemorrhagic fever, typhoid and diphtheria.
The Division works closely with the Divisions of Medical Microbiology, Medical Virology and Clinical Pharmacology as well as the Unit for Infection Prevention and Control.
Below is an overview, structured according to the specified categories:
?Services
- Outpatient initiation and monitoring of ART in advanced HIV disease, HIV and pregnancy, HIV related renal disease and HIV related liver disease
- Daily inpatient ID consultation service
- After hours ID on call service
- Antibiotic stewardship programme
- Weekly ICU ID wardrounds
- Weekly renal transplant and haematology (neutropaenia) ward round
- ID outreach and support
Training
- Undergraduate medical training (ID module)
- Post graduate training: Internal medicine and Infectious Diseases
- MMed (Internal Medicine) supervision
- NIMART training and mentoring
- PACK Adult training
Special Interests / Research Projects
- Antibiotic Stewardship
- TB/HIV co-infection and TB-IRIS
- HIV Renal Disease
- TB infection prevention and control
- Cervical Cancer / HPV
- HIV and Pregnancy
- Kaposi Sarcoma
- Viral Hepatitis in HIV
- HIV Clinical trials
- HIV Epidemiology
- Primary immunodeficiency
- Transplant Infectious Diseases
- ART adherence
- Under and Postgraduate teaching
- HIV Referral Assessment
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