There are 38 million people with HIV worldwide. Many of these people take lifelong medication that ensures that the virus cannot spread in the body. The virus can, however, hide in the body, and this makes it difficult to find a cure. We need to figure out how to safely ‘wake’ up the virus, while strengthening the immune system so that the virus cannot spread further in the body. In this project, a collaborative team of people with HIV, scientists, medical specialists, and pharmaceutical partners will work together on finding an acceptable HIV cure for everyone, everywhere.

This project focuses on mine closure and responsible mining in South Africa. The goal is to create a discourse of toxic commons, run by a synthetic perspective that solves residual infrastructure and altered water systems on a regional scale, which also impacts the local energy and food systems. Extraction (mining) results in significant, irreversible change, in which the degradation of the environmental and human (local) recourses is not adequately acknowledged. The overall environmental degradation and the marginalized communities are also excluded from alternative futures. This geographical misbalance between local quality and global commodities is fundamental to the problem.

Our research focuses on significantly improving investigations into poaching and illegal wildlife trade by developing advanced forensic techniques specifically designed to tackle these activities. We utilize body temperature dynamics to estimate the time of death and conduct chemical analyses of bodily fluids to determine the time since poaching. This is crucial for reconstructing the timeline of events, verifying alibis, and establishing targeted search strategies. By adapting these advanced and legally applicable methods for crime scene investigations after poaching incidents, we aim to introduce new advanced methods for forensic research in addressing this large-scale wildlife crime.