As part of the Victor Daitz Information Gateway initiative, the Victor Daitz Chair in HIV/TB Research wishes to provide support to UKZN HIV and TB researchers publishing in Open Access journals.

UKZN researchers, publishing basic science and/or clinical research in HIV/AIDS and TB, who have had a manuscript accepted in an Open Access journal with an ISI impact factor of 5 and above, are therefore invited to apply to the Gateway for financial support to publish in an Open Access journal.

Interested persons should email (1) the abstract, and (2) a letter from the scientific journal, confirming acceptance of their manuscript for publication in an Open Access journal, to Ms Tarryn Leslie , Ext. 4763.

Ten articles per year will be selected for support through this initiative.

To date, the Information Gateway has provided financial support for the following three manuscripts published in Open Access journals:

1. Vinod B. Patel, Grant Theron, Laura Lenders, Brian Matinyena, Cathy Connolly, Ravesh Singh, Yacoob Coovadia, Thumbi Ndung’u, Keertan Dheda. Diagnostic Accuracy of Quantitative PCR (Xpert MTB/RIF) for Tuberculous Meningitis in a High Burden Setting: A Prospective Study. PLOS Medicine, Vol 10, Issue 10, 10/2013.
2. Emily B. Wong, Ngomu Akeem Akilimali, Pamla Govender, Zuri A. Sullivan, Cormac Cosgrove, Mona Pillay, David M. Lewinsohn, William R. Bishai, Bruce D. Walker, Thumbi Ndung’u, Paul Klenerman, Victoria O. Kasprowicz. Low Levels of Peripheral CD161++CD8+ Mucosal Associated Invariant T (MAIT) Cells Are Found in HIV and HIV/TB Co-Infection. PLOS ONE, Vol 8, Issue 12, 12/2013.
3. Mann JK, Barton JP, Ferguson AL, Omarjee S, Walker BD, Chakraborty A, Ndung'u T. The Fitness Landscape of HIV-1 Gag: Advanced Modeling Approaches and Validation of Model Predictions by In Vitro Testing. PLoS Comput Biol. 2014 Aug 7; 10 (8): e1003776.
4. Mkhize-Kwitshana, ZL, Mabaso, MLH, Walzl G. Proliferative capacity and cytokine production by cells of HIV-infected and uninfected adults with different helminth infection phenotypes in South Africa. BMC Infectious Diseases.
5. Nesri Padayatchi, Naressa Naidu. Novel and adjunct treatment for drug resistant tuberculosis: A public health imperative. Mycobacterial Diseases.

The above-referenced articles are accessible from the Information Gateway website.