Media
HSRC provides media briefs (or press releases) on a regular basis to the media. Here you can browse the archive of media briefs.
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14 Oct 2013 | HSRC manager appointed to Ministry of Tourism research policy expert forum
Press Release: Immediate Date: 14 October 2013 The Human Sciences Research Council is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr Dimitri Tassiopoulos...
27 Aug 2013 | HSRC, Fort Hare assigned review of highest courts
The Democracy, Governance and Service Delivery (DGSD) research programme of the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC), together with its partner the ...
27 Aug 2013 | HSRC, Fort Hare assigned review of highest courts
The Democracy, Governance and Service Delivery (DGSD) research programme of the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC), together with its partner the ...
6 Aug 2013 | Results of first SA national health and nutrition survey released
South Africa has a huge burden of disease, fuelled by a range of risk factors, and morbidity (illness and disease) and mortality (death) figures are h...
20 Jun 2013 | Plenary Session 3, 20 June 2013 - "HIV/AIDS in South Africa: At last the glass is half full"
Speaker: Dr Olive Shisana Many more people with HIV are alive because of ARV treatment The HSRC released the key findings of the 2012 household surv...
17 Apr 2013 | Tribute to leading social sciences scholar, Professor Bernard Magubane
CEO Dr Olive Shisana of the Human Sciences Research Council expressed her condolences on behalf of the organisation to the family and friends of the l...
12 Mar 2013 | Tshwane's black men who have sex with men in urgent need of HIV/AIDS services
HIV rates among gay men and other men who have sex with men (MSM) in Tshwane resemble to those in pregnant young women. HIV rates among this populatio...
8 Mar 2013 | HSRC appointed as incubator for a South African BRICS think tank
South Africa is hosting the BRICS Summit (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) in Durban from 26 to 27 March 2013. Prior to this meeting the...
4 Mar 2013 | Study identifies ways to increase HIV testing, detection of previously undiagnosed HIV cases
Efforts result in modest decrease in new HIV infectionsStudy results presented on 4 March 2013 at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Inf...
18 Feb 2013 | What The Nation States
With an ambitious set of priorities planned by national government ahead of the 2014 general election, President Jacob Zuma faced an expectant crowd i...