doi: 10.7196/SAMJ.2024.v114i3.1927.
Obesity is South Africa's new HIV epidemic
Nomathemba Chandiwana
1
, Willem Venter
2
, Jennifer Manne-Goehler
3
, Alisha Wade
4
, Carel Le Roux
5
, Nzama Mbalati
6
, Angelika Grimbeek
7
, Petronell Kruger
8
, Eunice Montsho
9
, Zukiswa Zimela
10
, Anele Yawa
11
, Sibongile Tshabalala
12
, Ndivhuwo Rambau
13
, Ngqabutho Mpofu
14
, Sasha Stevenson
15
, Bridget McNulty
16
, Ntobeko Ntusi
17
, Yogan Pillay
18
, Joel Dave
19
, Angela Murphy
20
, Sue Goldstein
21
, Karen Hfman
22
, Sameera Mahomedy
23
, Elizabeth Thomas
24
, Busi Mrara
25
, Jeff Wing
26
, Jeanne Lubbe
27
, Zack Koto
28
, Marli Conradie-Smit
29
, Sean Wharton
30
, Wayne May
31
, Ian Marr
32
, Hilton Kaplan
33
, Mariam Forgan
31
, Graham Alexander
33
, John Turner
34
, V R Fourie
31
, Jocelyn Hellig
31
, Mandy Banks
31
, Kim Ragsdale
31
, Marisa Noeth
35
, Farzahna Mohamed
36
, Landon Myer
37
, Limakatso Lebina
38
, Salome Maswime
39
, Yunus Moosa
40
, Sumy Thomas
41
, Mzamo Mbelle
42
, Phumla Sinxadi
43
, Linda-Gail Bekker
44
, Sindeep Bhana
45
, June Fabian
46
, Eric Decloedt
47
, Zaheer Bayat
48
, Reyna Daya
49
, Bilal Bobat
50
, Fiona Storie
51
, Julia Goedecke
52
, Kathleen Kahn
53
, Stephen Tollman
54
, Brett Mansfield
55
, Mark Siedner
56
, Vincent Marconi
57
, Aaloke Mody
58
, Ntombifikile Mtshali
59
, Elvin Geng
60
, Suman Srinivasa
61
, Mohammed Ali
62
, Samanta Lalla-Edwards
63
, Alison Bentley
64
, Gustaaf Wolvaardt
65
, Andrew Hill
66
, Jeremy Nel
67
Affiliations
Affiliations
- 1 Ezintsha, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand. nchandiwana@ezintsha.org.
- 2 Ezintsha, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand. fventer@ezintsha.org.
- 3 Division of Infectious Diseases, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School. jmanne@bwh.harvard.edu.
- 4 Research in Metabolism and Endocrinology, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand. Alisha.Wade@wits.ac.za.
- 5 Diabetes Complications Research Centre, University College Dublin; Chemical Pathology, University of Pretoria. carel.leroux@nmh.ie.
- 6 Communication Sciences, Healthy Living Alliance. Nzama@Heala.org.
- 7 Community Paediatrics, Healthy Living Alliance. Angelika@Heala.org.
- 8 Healthy Living Alliance. petronell@heala.org.
- 9 Healthy Living Alliance. fventer@ezintsha.org.
- 10 Healthy Living Alliance. zukiswa@heala.org.
- 11 General Secretary, Treatment Action Campaign . anele.yawa@mail.tac.org.za.
- 12 National Chairperson, Treatment Action Campaign . sibongilet@mail.tac.org.za.
- 13 Project Co-ordinator, Treatment Action . ndivhuwo.rambau@mail.tac.org.za.
- 14 Communications, and Research Manager, Treatment Action Campaign . ngqabutho.mpofu@mail.tac.org.za.
- 15 Executive Director, Section 27. stevenson@section27.org.za.
- 16 Sweet Life Diabetes Community and SA Diabetes Advocacy. hello@sweetlife.org.za.
- 17 Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital; University of Cape Town/SAMRC Extramural Research Unit on Intersection of Noncommunicable Diseases and Infectious Diseases; ARUA/Guild Cluster of Research Excellence on Noncommunicable Diseases and Associated Multimorbidity. Ntobeko.Ntusi@uct.ac.za.
- 18 Director, HIV & TB Delivery, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Pretoria; Department of Global Health, Stellenbosch University. yogan.pillay@gatesfoundation.org.
- 19 Division of Endocrinology, Groote Schuur Hospital and Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town. joeldave@endocrine.co.za.
- 20 Sunward Park Medical Centre. dr.angela.murphy@gmail.com.
- 21 SAMRC/Wits Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science; PRICELESS SA, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand. drsuegoldstein@gmail.com.
- 22 SAMRC/Wits Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science; PRICELESS SA, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand. karen.hofman@wits.ac.za.
- 23 AMRC/Wits Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science; PRICELESS SA, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand. sameera.mahomedy@wits.ac.za.
- 24 SAMRC/ Wits Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science; PRICELESS SA, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand. elizabeth.thomas@wits.ac.za.
- 25 Professor and Head of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care, Walter Sisulu University. busiemrara@yahoo.com.
- 26 Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand. jeffrey.wing@wits.ac.za.
- 27 Head, Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery, Tygerberg Hospital and Stellenbosch University; President, South African Metabolic Medicine and Surgery Society. jeannelubbe@gmail.com.
- 28 Chair, Department of Surgery, Dr George Mukhari Academic Hospital and Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University; President, College of Surgeons of South Africa; Senior Vice-President, Colleges of Medicine of South Africa, President, Association of Surgeons of South Africa. wayne@drendocrinology.com.
- 29 Head, Division of Endocrinology, Tygerberg Hospital. wayne@drendocrinology.com.
- 30 McMaster University, York University, and Wharton Weight Management Clinic. sean@whartonmedicalclinic.com.
- 31 Cape Town Bariatric Clinic. wayne@drendocrinology.com.
- 32 Cape Town Bariatric Clinic. docmarr@gmail.com.
- 33 Cape Town Bariatric Clinic . wayne@drendocrinology.com.
- 34 Honorary Senior Specialist Groote Schuur Hospital and the University of Cape Town, Cape Town Bariatric Clinic . wayne@drendocrinology.com.
- 35 Zuid Afrikaans Bariatric Clinic. info@pretoriaphysician.co.za.
- 36 Acting Clinical Head of Endocrinology, Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital and Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand. farzahna.mohamed@wits.ac.za.
- 37 Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town. landon.myer@uct.ac.za.
- 38 Africa Health Research Institute. limakatso.lebina@ahri.org.
- 39 Global Surgery Division, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town. salome.maswime@uct.ac.za.
- 40 Southern African HIV Clinicians Society; Department of Infectious Diseases, Nelson R Mandela School of Clinical Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal. moosay@ukzn.ac.za.
- 41 Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand. sumythomas9061@gmail.com.
- 42 Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand and Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital; Institute of Liver Studies, King's College Hospital. mzamo.mbelle@gmail.com.
- 43 Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town. phumla.sinxadi@uct.ac.za.
- 44 Desmond Tutu HIV Centre, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town. linda-gail.bekker@hiv-research.org.za.
- 45 Honorary lecturer, Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital and Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand. sindeepbhana@icloud.com.
- 46 Wits Donald Gordon Medical Centre, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand. june.fabian@mweb.co.za.
- 47 Head, Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University and Tygerberg Hospital. ericdecloedt@sun.ac.za.
- 48 Academic Head of Endocrinology, University of the Witwatersrand; Clinical Head of Medicine, Helen Joseph Hospital. zaheer.bayat@wits.ac.za.
- 49 Clinical Head of Endocrinology, Helen Joseph Hospital; Chair, Society for Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes of South Africa. reyna.daya13@gmail.com.
- 50 Wits Donald Gordon Medical Centre, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand. bilalbobat@mweb.co.za.
- 51 Southern African HIV Clinicians Society. fiona@sahivcs.org.
- 52 Biomedical Research and Innovation Platform, South African Medical Research Council. julia.goedecke@mrc.ac.za.
- 53 SAMRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt), School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand. kathleen.kahn@wits.ac.za.
- 54 SAMRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt), School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand. stephen.tollman@wits.ac.za.
- 55 Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand. bmansfield@hotmail.com.
- 56 Africa Health Research Institute, Harvard Medical School. mark.siedner@ahri.org.
- 57 Division of Infectious Diseases and Department of Global Health, Emory University School of Medicine and Rollins School of Public Health. vcmarco@emory.edu.
- 58 Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, and Center for Dissemination and Implementation, Institute for Public Health, Washington University. aaloke.mody@wustl.edu.
- 59 Shout-It-Now. ntombifikile.mtshali@shoutitnow.org.
- 60 Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, and Center for Dissemination and Implementation, Institute for Public Health, Washington University. elvin.geng@wustl.edu.
- 61 Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. fventer@ezintsha.org.
- 62 Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, and Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University. mkali@emory.edu.
- 63 Ezintsha, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand. slallaedward@ezintsha.org.
- 64 Restonic Ezintsha sleep clinic, South African Society for Sleep and Health. dralisonbentley@gmail.com.
- 65 Foundation for Professional Development. gustaafw@foundation.co.za.
- 66 Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of Liverpool. andrewhillmv@gmail.com.
- 67 Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of the Witwatersrand. jeremy.nel@wits.ac.za.
- PMID: 38525565
- DOI: 10.7196/SAMJ.2024.v114i3.1927
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Nomathemba Chandiwana
1
, Willem Venter
2
, Jennifer Manne-Goehler
3
, Alisha Wade
4
, Carel Le Roux
5
, Nzama Mbalati
6
, Angelika Grimbeek
7
, Petronell Kruger
8
, Eunice Montsho
9
, Zukiswa Zimela
10
, Anele Yawa
11
, Sibongile Tshabalala
12
, Ndivhuwo Rambau
13
, Ngqabutho Mpofu
14
, Sasha Stevenson
15
, Bridget McNulty
16
, Ntobeko Ntusi
17
, Yogan Pillay
18
, Joel Dave
19
, Angela Murphy
20
, Sue Goldstein
21
, Karen Hfman
22
, Sameera Mahomedy
23
, Elizabeth Thomas
24
, Busi Mrara
25
, Jeff Wing
26
, Jeanne Lubbe
27
, Zack Koto
28
, Marli Conradie-Smit
29
, Sean Wharton
30
, Wayne May
31
, Ian Marr
32
, Hilton Kaplan
33
, Mariam Forgan
31
, Graham Alexander
33
, John Turner
34
, V R Fourie
31
, Jocelyn Hellig
31
, Mandy Banks
31
, Kim Ragsdale
31
, Marisa Noeth
35
, Farzahna Mohamed
36
, Landon Myer
37
, Limakatso Lebina
38
, Salome Maswime
39
, Yunus Moosa
40
, Sumy Thomas
41
, Mzamo Mbelle
42
, Phumla Sinxadi
43
, Linda-Gail Bekker
44
, Sindeep Bhana
45
, June Fabian
46
, Eric Decloedt
47
, Zaheer Bayat
48
, Reyna Daya
49
, Bilal Bobat
50
, Fiona Storie
51
, Julia Goedecke
52
, Kathleen Kahn
53
, Stephen Tollman
54
, Brett Mansfield
55
, Mark Siedner
56
, Vincent Marconi
57
, Aaloke Mody
58
, Ntombifikile Mtshali
59
, Elvin Geng
60
, Suman Srinivasa
61
, Mohammed Ali
62
, Samanta Lalla-Edwards
63
, Alison Bentley
64
, Gustaaf Wolvaardt
65
, Andrew Hill
66
, Jeremy Nel
67
Affiliations
- 1 Ezintsha, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand. nchandiwana@ezintsha.org.
- 2 Ezintsha, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand. fventer@ezintsha.org.
- 3 Division of Infectious Diseases, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School. jmanne@bwh.harvard.edu.
- 4 Research in Metabolism and Endocrinology, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand. Alisha.Wade@wits.ac.za.
- 5 Diabetes Complications Research Centre, University College Dublin; Chemical Pathology, University of Pretoria. carel.leroux@nmh.ie.
- 6 Communication Sciences, Healthy Living Alliance. Nzama@Heala.org.
- 7 Community Paediatrics, Healthy Living Alliance. Angelika@Heala.org.
- 8 Healthy Living Alliance. petronell@heala.org.
- 9 Healthy Living Alliance. fventer@ezintsha.org.
- 10 Healthy Living Alliance. zukiswa@heala.org.
- 11 General Secretary, Treatment Action Campaign . anele.yawa@mail.tac.org.za.
- 12 National Chairperson, Treatment Action Campaign . sibongilet@mail.tac.org.za.
- 13 Project Co-ordinator, Treatment Action . ndivhuwo.rambau@mail.tac.org.za.
- 14 Communications, and Research Manager, Treatment Action Campaign . ngqabutho.mpofu@mail.tac.org.za.
- 15 Executive Director, Section 27. stevenson@section27.org.za.
- 16 Sweet Life Diabetes Community and SA Diabetes Advocacy. hello@sweetlife.org.za.
- 17 Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital; University of Cape Town/SAMRC Extramural Research Unit on Intersection of Noncommunicable Diseases and Infectious Diseases; ARUA/Guild Cluster of Research Excellence on Noncommunicable Diseases and Associated Multimorbidity. Ntobeko.Ntusi@uct.ac.za.
- 18 Director, HIV & TB Delivery, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Pretoria; Department of Global Health, Stellenbosch University. yogan.pillay@gatesfoundation.org.
- 19 Division of Endocrinology, Groote Schuur Hospital and Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town. joeldave@endocrine.co.za.
- 20 Sunward Park Medical Centre. dr.angela.murphy@gmail.com.
- 21 SAMRC/Wits Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science; PRICELESS SA, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand. drsuegoldstein@gmail.com.
- 22 SAMRC/Wits Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science; PRICELESS SA, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand. karen.hofman@wits.ac.za.
- 23 AMRC/Wits Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science; PRICELESS SA, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand. sameera.mahomedy@wits.ac.za.
- 24 SAMRC/ Wits Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science; PRICELESS SA, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand. elizabeth.thomas@wits.ac.za.
- 25 Professor and Head of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care, Walter Sisulu University. busiemrara@yahoo.com.
- 26 Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand. jeffrey.wing@wits.ac.za.
- 27 Head, Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery, Tygerberg Hospital and Stellenbosch University; President, South African Metabolic Medicine and Surgery Society. jeannelubbe@gmail.com.
- 28 Chair, Department of Surgery, Dr George Mukhari Academic Hospital and Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University; President, College of Surgeons of South Africa; Senior Vice-President, Colleges of Medicine of South Africa, President, Association of Surgeons of South Africa. wayne@drendocrinology.com.
- 29 Head, Division of Endocrinology, Tygerberg Hospital. wayne@drendocrinology.com.
- 30 McMaster University, York University, and Wharton Weight Management Clinic. sean@whartonmedicalclinic.com.
- 31 Cape Town Bariatric Clinic. wayne@drendocrinology.com.
- 32 Cape Town Bariatric Clinic. docmarr@gmail.com.
- 33 Cape Town Bariatric Clinic . wayne@drendocrinology.com.
- 34 Honorary Senior Specialist Groote Schuur Hospital and the University of Cape Town, Cape Town Bariatric Clinic . wayne@drendocrinology.com.
- 35 Zuid Afrikaans Bariatric Clinic. info@pretoriaphysician.co.za.
- 36 Acting Clinical Head of Endocrinology, Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital and Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand. farzahna.mohamed@wits.ac.za.
- 37 Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town. landon.myer@uct.ac.za.
- 38 Africa Health Research Institute. limakatso.lebina@ahri.org.
- 39 Global Surgery Division, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town. salome.maswime@uct.ac.za.
- 40 Southern African HIV Clinicians Society; Department of Infectious Diseases, Nelson R Mandela School of Clinical Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal. moosay@ukzn.ac.za.
- 41 Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand. sumythomas9061@gmail.com.
- 42 Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand and Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital; Institute of Liver Studies, King's College Hospital. mzamo.mbelle@gmail.com.
- 43 Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town. phumla.sinxadi@uct.ac.za.
- 44 Desmond Tutu HIV Centre, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town. linda-gail.bekker@hiv-research.org.za.
- 45 Honorary lecturer, Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital and Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand. sindeepbhana@icloud.com.
- 46 Wits Donald Gordon Medical Centre, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand. june.fabian@mweb.co.za.
- 47 Head, Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University and Tygerberg Hospital. ericdecloedt@sun.ac.za.
- 48 Academic Head of Endocrinology, University of the Witwatersrand; Clinical Head of Medicine, Helen Joseph Hospital. zaheer.bayat@wits.ac.za.
- 49 Clinical Head of Endocrinology, Helen Joseph Hospital; Chair, Society for Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes of South Africa. reyna.daya13@gmail.com.
- 50 Wits Donald Gordon Medical Centre, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand. bilalbobat@mweb.co.za.
- 51 Southern African HIV Clinicians Society. fiona@sahivcs.org.
- 52 Biomedical Research and Innovation Platform, South African Medical Research Council. julia.goedecke@mrc.ac.za.
- 53 SAMRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt), School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand. kathleen.kahn@wits.ac.za.
- 54 SAMRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt), School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand. stephen.tollman@wits.ac.za.
- 55 Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand. bmansfield@hotmail.com.
- 56 Africa Health Research Institute, Harvard Medical School. mark.siedner@ahri.org.
- 57 Division of Infectious Diseases and Department of Global Health, Emory University School of Medicine and Rollins School of Public Health. vcmarco@emory.edu.
- 58 Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, and Center for Dissemination and Implementation, Institute for Public Health, Washington University. aaloke.mody@wustl.edu.
- 59 Shout-It-Now. ntombifikile.mtshali@shoutitnow.org.
- 60 Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, and Center for Dissemination and Implementation, Institute for Public Health, Washington University. elvin.geng@wustl.edu.
- 61 Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. fventer@ezintsha.org.
- 62 Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, and Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University. mkali@emory.edu.
- 63 Ezintsha, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand. slallaedward@ezintsha.org.
- 64 Restonic Ezintsha sleep clinic, South African Society for Sleep and Health. dralisonbentley@gmail.com.
- 65 Foundation for Professional Development. gustaafw@foundation.co.za.
- 66 Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of Liverpool. andrewhillmv@gmail.com.
- 67 Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of the Witwatersrand. jeremy.nel@wits.ac.za.
- PMID: 38525565
- DOI: 10.7196/SAMJ.2024.v114i3.1927
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