Mr Morris Madzime, has recently worked flat out to produce a well-researched review on Covid-19.
The aim was to make it accessible to the general public but to balance it with scientific facts. Science should be the lodestone in the whole debate; not the social media noise around Covid-19.
Mr Madzime is teaching physical sciences and mathematics at Relekile Secondary School in Hoopstad/Tikwana. Apart from this noble work, he is studying towards a PhD in the medical sciences. His research is aimed at the interactions of dolutegravir, alone and in combination with other antiretroviral agents, with human neutrophils and platelets in vitro. This basically means that he is looking at the interaction of ARVs with neutrophils (which are innate immune cells) as well as with platelets (which are coagulation cells with well-established interaction with the immune system). The research is aimed at shedding light on the continued morbidity associated with drug toxicity in HIV patients.
Mr Madzime is busy with two scientific publications and if all goes well, he will DV submit his thesis before June 2021.
I thank Mr Madzime for sharing this article with us and we are very proud to have such a talented teacher in the Free State. Click here to access a pdf copy of the article.