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Doctor Gillian Sorour

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I am a paediatric infectious disease specialist and have worked in the field of HIV medicine for the past 20 years. We run a large HIV clinic for children and adolescents at RMMCH. I am also the unit head for one of the general paediatric units at RMMCH.
I serve on the Southern African HIV Clinicians Society Paediatric and Adolescent Committee and the SASPID (South African Society of Paediatric Infectious Diseases) Executive Committee.

Details

Email: gillian.sorour@wits.ac.za
Office: 011 470 9142
Mobile: 083 676 6350

Clinical Duties

In-patient: Head of Unit 3 – one of the general paediatric units at RMMCH.
Outpatient: Infectious disease specialist in charge of Empilweni clinic – a clinic for children and adolescents infected with HIV.

Research

Involved in the CHAMPS (Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance) Study.

Publications
  1. Braithwaite K, McPherson TD, Shen Y, et al. Bone outcomes in virally suppressed youth with HIV switching to tenofovir disoproxil fumarate. S Afr J HIV Med. 2021;22(1), a1243. https://doi.org/10.4102/sajhivmed.v22i1.1243
  2. Keal J, Mazanderani AH, Van Dongen N, Sorour G, Technau K-G. False-positive rapid diagnostic tests in paediatric and obstetric patients in South Africa. S Afr J HIV Med. 2021;22(1), a1186. https://doi.org/ 10.4102/sajhivmed. v22i1.1186
  3. Haas AD et al. Mental health, substance use and viral suppression in adolescents receiving ART at a paediatric HIV clinic in South Africa; Journal of the International AIDS Society 2020, 23:e25644
  4. Technau KG, Strehlau R, Patel F, et al. 12-month outcomes of HIV-infected infants identified at birth at one maternity site in Johannesburg, South Africa: an observational cohort study. Lancet HIV. 2018;5(12):e706-e714. doi:10.1016/S2352-3018(18)30251-0
  5. Southern African HIV Clinicians Society. Guidelines for adherence to antiretroviral therapy in adolescents and young adults. Johannesburg, South Africa: Southern African HIV Clinicians Society, 2017

Awards/
Associations/
Community activities

I serve on the Southern African HIV Clinicians Society Paediatric and Adolescent Committee and the South African Society of Paediatric Infectious Diseases (SASPID) Executive Committee
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