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Dr Rory Leisegang (PhD candidate at the HEU) received the Best Publication Award from the Faculty of Health Sciences at UCT on 26 July 2010. His work is being co-supervised by HEU Director, Dr Susan Cleary (with Prof Gary Maartens).

The award is for an article published in PLoS Medicine titled ‘early and late direct costs in a southern African antiretroviral treatment programme: A retrospective cohort analysis’. The paper was co-authored by Alistair Davidse and Gary Maartens from the Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Medicine, UCT; Susan Cleary; Michael Hislop and Leon Regensberg at Aids for AIDS, Medscheme; and Francesca Little from the Department of Statistical Sciences, UCT.
 
Rory is working on his PhD which is titled ‘the cost-effectiveness of models of antiretroviral treatment delivery’. We wish him continued success.

Dr Susan Cleary (third from left) receives the award on behalf of Rory, who was unable to attend the awards ceremony.