SATuRN: GUIDE TO CONTRIBUTORS Southern Africa Treatment and Resistance Network Introduc)on: SATuRN aims to provide ongoing communicaCon to keep people up to date and wellinformed about HIV & TB drug resistance. In this document, we request contribuCon from our collaborators in the form of blogs, reports, news and tweets. We also present guidelines for it and examples of previous published material. We trust that this informaCon is useful and we look forward to receive blogs, reports and news informaCon about your work and interests! Website & Newsle7er: The idea is to first publish contributed material at the website and summarize it on the newsleSer every quarter. In this way, the producCon of a quaternary newsleSer is not a stressful process with a deadline, but a summary of the informaCon that was added to the website in the previous 3 months. Annual Report: The SATURN annual report is compiled from material on webpages and newsleSer plus informaCon provided by collaborators, such as list of publicaCon and summary key achievements.
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SATuRN: GUIDE TO CONTRIBUTORS Southern Africa Treatment and Resistance Network
Introduc)on:
SATuRN aims to provide ongoing communicaCon to keep people up to date and well-‐informed about HIV & TB drug resistance.
In this document, we request contribuCon from our collaborators in the form of blogs, reports, news and tweets. We also present guidelines for it and examples of previous published material.
We trust that this informaCon is useful and we look forward to receive blogs, reports and news informaCon about your work and interests!
Website & Newsle7er:
The idea is to first publish contributed material at the website and summarize it on the newsleSer every quarter. In this way, the producCon of a quaternary newsleSer is not a stressful process with a deadline, but a summary of the informaCon that was added to the website in the previous 3 months.
Annual Report:
The SATURN annual report is compiled from material on webpages and newsleSer plus informaCon provided by collaborators, such as list of publicaCon and summary key achievements.
A Blog is a first or third person perspecCve essay that covers a subject that may be of interested to SATuRN members. For example, results of a new trial, a published manuscript (normally from another group) that is worth commenCng about it, a collaboraCve visit and/or an event aSended . A blog can have one or more authors.
Examples of blogs published:
Blog: 'Totally drug-‐resistant' tuberculosis in India: should we be worried? Author: Richard Lessells -‐ 2012-‐01-‐23
Links: hSp://www.bioafrica.net/blogs.php?id=2
Blog: It's all about the process -‐ A doctor and LSHTM MSc student experiences at Africa Centre/SATuRN Author: Dr. Baljinder Singh -‐ 2012-‐10-‐01
“Following my interest in mulC-‐drug resistant tuberculosis, I was put in touch with Dr Richard Lessells at the Africa Centre but on arriving in Mtubatuba, was instantly inspired by the SATuRN group's groundbreaking work on HIV drug resistance, prompCng me to focus my MSc thesis on this area.”
Link: hSp://www.bioafrica.net/blogs.php?id=18
Blog: AIDS XIX 2012 conference: impressions of a South African researcher Author: Siva Danaviah – 2012-‐09-‐12
“As a summary of my acCviCes during the meeCng, I was able to aSend several interesCng sessions regarding mother to child transmission, viral latency and of course the viral resistance and an excellent talk on HIV/TB co-‐infecCon. Below are a few of the highlights of my experience at AIDS2012..“
Link: hSp://www.bioafrica.net/blogs.php?id=16
Blog: Na)onal Strategic Plan 2012-‐2016: Integra)ng research and all sectors of society to fight HIV, STIs and TB in South Africa Authors: , Lungani Ndwandwe, Tulio de Oliveira
"In prevenCng the spread of HIV, STIs and TB infecCons and to miCgate the impact of the dual HIV and TB epidemics in society, the Department of Health (DoH) has developed a NaConal Strategic Plan (NSP) that will shape the department acCviCes for the next 5 years, with regards to the handling of these diseases.”
Link: hSp://www.bioafrica.net/blogs.php?id=13
Blogs: 400 to 600 words & 1 picture (size: 600x400 pixels)
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SATuRN Guidelines for contributors: Blogs
“A recently published manuscript of tuberculosis strains resistant to all tested first-‐ and second-‐line anC-‐TB drugs in Mumbai has garnered much aSenCon in the media. What has actually been reported: Is this a new form of TB? What is the significance for global TB control?”
Reports is a third person essay that describes a manuscript, resource or group that is associated to SATuRN. For example, a new publicaCon or a presentaCon at a conference, a summary of a research group in SATuRN (i.e. a featured partner) or a SATuRN associated training event. The main difference between a report and a blog is that a report cover SATuRN’s associated groups work and results in a more formal way.
Examples of reports recently published:
Report: 2nd Nurses and Health Care Workers Drug Resistance Training for the scale-‐up of resistance tes)ng in the Free State Province, South Africa Authors: Dominique Goedhals & Cloete van Vuuren -‐ 2012-‐07-‐10
Links: hSp://www.bioafrica.net/report.php?id=16
Report: SATuRN's Featured Partner: New TB centre at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Authors: Richard Lessells & Tulio de Oliveira -‐ 2012-‐07-‐03
“The TB Centre at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine is a unique collaboraCve academic centre, represenCng the largest collecCon of researchers working on TB in Europe..”
Link: hSp://www.bioafrica.net/report.php?id=15
Report: Deep sequencing shed light on low levels of PI resistance in pa)ents with poor adherence Authors: Wolfgang Preiser, Gert van Zyl – 2012-‐07-‐02
“A team from Division of Medical Virology, Stellenbosch University, University of Western Cape and University of California, San Diego performed deep sequencing and analyzed results from 7 South African paCents who failed a second-‐line lopinavir/ritonavir based regimen.“
Link: hSp://www.bioafrica.net/report.php?id=14
Report: Transmi7ed Drug Resistance data now more accessible through HIVDB GIS Tool Authors: Justen Manasa, Gillian Hunt, Tulio de Oliveira
"A new interacCve Geographic InformaCon System (GIS) displaying studies of HIV-‐1 Drug Resistance in ARV-‐Naive PopulaCons has just been added to the ever-‐expanding HIV drug resistance monitoring tools developed by Stanford HIVDB group and their collaborators (Rhee et al. CROI 2012).”
Link: hSp://www.bioafrica.net/report.php?id=11
Reports: 400 to 800 words, 1 to 2 pictures (size: 600x400 pixels)
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SATuRN Guidelines for contributors: Reports
“On 31 May 2012, the Free State IniCaCve on Resistance, Surveillance and Treatment (FIRST) and SATuRN hosted an HIV drug resistance training workshop in collaboraCon with the Free State Department of Health Comprehensive Care Management and Treatment of HIV and AIDS Program (CCMT).”
In the news secCon of the SATuRN website, we disseminate printed and online media coverage of SATuRN’ partners work and its applicaCon in everyday life. The great majority of the news arCcles displayed in the website was published by a news agency and/or website. The original news text is repeated in our and acknowledgement to the news source and author is provided, in addiCon to the original news web-‐address (i.e. URL).
Examples of news recently published:
News: Dissec)ng diagnos)cs -‐ TB drug resistance in rural South Africa Interna)onal Innova)on -‐ 2012-‐09-‐20
News: Local centre proves 'surrogate' HIV infec)on Zululand Observer – 2012-‐08-‐24
“The Africa Centre for Health and PopulaCon Studies, Zululand's HIV-‐AIDS research hub based near Mtubatuba, has revealed the first proven HIV surrogate transmission case in South Africa..”
Link: hSp://www.bioafrica.net/news.php?id=41
News: Life Technologies and SATuRN Collaborate to Increase Access to HIV Tes)ng in Africa The Wall Street journal – 2012-‐07-‐24
“NEW YORK -‐ Life Technologies today announced a collaboraCon with the Southern African Treatment and Resistance Network (SATuRN) covering sequencing-‐based diagnosCcs for HIV paCents in Africa.”
Links: hSp://www.bioafrica.net/news.php?id=43
News: HIV drug resistance is spreading in Africa, experts say Los Angeles Times – 2012-‐07-‐23
"WASHINGTON (By Erin Loury, LA Times) -‐ Scaling up the distribuCon of HIV medicaCon over the last decade has vastly increased the number of people receiving treatment around the world. An esCmated 8 million infected people received the anCretroviral drugs in 2011, compared to just 400,000 in 2003.”
“Researchers based in northern KwaZulu-‐Natal in rural South Africa are exploring the impact of novel molecular tuberculosis diagnosCc system on clinical outcomes for paCents with mulCdrug-‐resistance TB.”
Twi7er: SATuRN has a very ac)ve twi7er account. Please send us tweets and messages to @drug_resistance so we can re-‐tweeted to the greater SATuRN community
SATuRN collaborators are also welcome to help us to do twiSer coverage on HIV & TB drug resistance events and conferences. The last events that we have covered were:
KUALA LUMPUR, 14-‐17 Nov 2012 -‐ SATuRN researchers tweeter coverage at 43rd Union World Conference on Lung Health.
DURBAN, 9-‐11 Oct 2012 -‐ HIV and TB bioinformaCcs presentaCon and tweet coverage at K-‐RITH opening
WASHINGTON, 22-‐27 July 2012 – We have hosted a meeCng, presented many talks and posters and tweeted a lot on the XIX InternaConal AIDS 2012 Conference.
We have plans to do twi7er coverage of the following conferences, please join us!
-‐ KUALA LUMPUR, IAS 2013 Conference
-‐ PARIS, 44rd Union World Conference on Lung Health.
For contribu)ng material and more informa)on on how to par)cipate in SATuRN ac)vi)es please contact:
Dr. Tulio de Oliveira, Africa Centre for Health and Popula)on Studies, UKZN, South Africa. Tel : +27 35 550 7500, Fax: +27 35 550 7565, e-‐mail : [email protected]
Prof. Chris Seebregts, South African Medical Research Council, South Africa. Tel: +27 21 938 0318, Fax: +27 86 683 2449, e-‐mail: [email protected]
Disclaimer: The SATuRN consorCum wishes to express its graCtude to the following funders for their generous support for the producCon of this report: European Commission (EC), Centers for Disease Control and PrevenCon (CDC funding for SoPH/UWC and CAPRISA), President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), InternaConal Development Research Centre (IDRC), Council for ScienCfic and Industrial Research (CSIR) Swiss / South Africa iniCaCve and the Wellcome Trust.
The SATuRN website, newsleSers and reports are published as open access under a CreaCve Commons ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-‐SA 3.0) license (hSp://creaCvecommons.org/licenses/by-‐sa/3.0/) and is available in printed format as well as electronically as PDF, Web-‐format, etc. The contents of this report and the opinions expressed herein are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views or policies of any of the funders.
