Human and Social Capabilities


21 Oct 2019 | School's Out project kicks off in earnest with meetings across southern Africa

The HSRC's ten-country study -- the School's Out project -- has kicked off in earnest with meetings across southern Africa last week. The project is f...

30 Jul 2019 | AIDSImpact 2019: HSRC presentations

The HSRC is sending a delegation to the AIDSImpact conference once again this year. This is the 14th edition of the conference and it will be held in ...

10 Jun 2019 | Congratulations to Prof Tamsen Rochat DST-NRF CoE in Human Development managment committee

The Department of Science and Technology (DST) and the National Research Foundation (NRF) awarded a Centre of Excellence in Human Development to the U...

8 Feb 2019 | PE office enters #WRADChallenge2019

HSRC staff members in Port Elizabeth took time to participate in the NGO Nal’ibali’s #WRADChallenge2019 by reading aloud the set story &ld...

8 Jan 2019 | The biggest cost burden of Africa's growing diabetes epidemic is borne by the poorest

The number of people with diabetes in Africa will almost triple between 2015 and 2040, rising from 14.2 million to 34.2 million, according to The Inte...

3 Dec 2018 | Statement by the HSRC and UNAIDS on a joint 2018 World AIDS Days partnership seminar on HIV drug resistance

HIV Drug Resistance: Results from the Fifth South African National HIV Prevalence, Incidence Behaviour and Communication survey, and impact on the 90-...

2 Nov 2018 | The first of its kind outside Gauteng: A community-owned non-communicable disease screening service in Sweetwaters

Since 2015, Dr Alastair van Heerden from HSD and his colleague Laurie Bruns at the UCLA Center for World Health have worked with MBA teams from UCLA o...

8 Aug 2018 | Professor Khangelani Zuma - Appointment as Honorary Associate Professor

" The HSRC is pleased to announce that Prof Khangelani Zuma has been appointed as Honorary Associate Professor in the School of Public Health. The a...

17 Jul 2018 | HSRC launches National HIV Prevalence, Incidence and Behaviour Survey results

The fifth National HIV Prevalence, Incidence and Behaviour Study (SABSSM V) findings are being released today....

11 Jul 2018 | From Providers to Carers: Men as Fathers

Twenty years ago, fatherhood wasn’t much of a political issue. Gender activists in South Africa focused on the ravages of HIV and gender-based v...