The Africa Health Research Institute is committed to working towards the elimination of HIV and TB. It combines the renowned Africa Centre for Population Health’s detailed population data from over 100 000 participants, with the KwaZulu-Natal Research Institute for TB-HIV (K-RITH)’s basic science, experimental medicine and world-class laboratory facilities.

The DST-NRF Centre of Excellence in HIV Prevention is co-hosted by CAPRISA and UKZN. The main goal of the Centre is to undertake research aimed at understanding and ameliorating the high risk of HIV in women, especially young women, in South Africa and also to generate knowledge that contributes to the development of new HIV prevention technologies such as microbicides and vaccines. The Centre’s research activities cover a range of disciplines, including public health/epidemiology, basic laboratory science, clinical studies and implementation science.

The main goal of CAPRISA is to undertake globally relevant and locally responsive research that contributes to understanding HIV pathogenesis, prevention and epidemiology as well as the links between Tuberculosis and AIDS care. CAPRISA was created in 2001 and formally established in 2002 under the NIH-funded Comprehensive International Programme of Research on AIDS (CIPRA) by five partner institutions: UKZN, University of Cape Town, University of Western Cape, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, and Columbia University in New York.

UKZN is home to 17 of the approximately 200 prestigious South African Research Chairs awarded by the NRF. The broad areas of research covered by the chairs are:

The University of Hong Kong comprises of ten outstanding faculties, many of which feature in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings by subject:

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