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Faculty of Health Sciences
School of Medicine
Department of Paediatrics

Feucht, UD

MBChB (Pret) MMed (Paed) - Lecturer/Specialist

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Contact Details:

Telephone number: 012 373 1038
Fax number: 012 373 7977
E-mail address: ute.feucht@up.ac.za

Research Interests:

HIV

To assess the safety, reactogenicity and immunogenicity of three doses of GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Biologicals’ oral live attenuated human rotavirus (HRV) vaccine

The medical and social characteristics of HIV-infected children

Audit of the response to antiretroviral therapy in therapy-naïve HIV-infected children at Kalafong hospital

Severe adverse events in children started on antiretroviral therapy at Kalafong hospital

The socio-economic profile and support structures of HIV infected and HIV exposed children cared for at Kalafong hospital, Pretoria

Human Rotavirus Vaccine (Rotarix)

Food as medicine and medicine as food: Antiretroviral Therapy and Nutritional Supplementation in a Cohort of HIV-Infected Children in South Africa

Improving the diagnosis of HIV in children born to HIV infected mothers

Effects Of Food Insecurity on Growth of Children Born to HIV Infected Mothers

Cardiac involvement in newly diagnosed HIV infected children and the effect of HAART on cardiac disease

Assessing neurodevelopment in HIV infected children under the age of three years at Kalafong Hospital

Booster Hepatitis B Vaccination in previously vaccinated HIV-Infected children

Growth, nutrition and health in HIV exposed children in South Africa

Research Output:

Research articles in refereed specialist journals:

Feucht UD, Kinzer M, Kruger M: 2007. Reasons for delay in initiation of antiretroviral therapy in a population of HIV-infected South African chilldren. Journal of Tropical Pediatrics, 53 (6), pp 398-402, Full Text

 

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