Vivisection in South Africa : Who Does What

Given the secret nature of animal experimentation the information that is available is patchy, incomplete and out of date. Two specific issues have emerged as trends: an increase in research on animals for indigenous medicines and HIV/AIDS. There also appears to be continued research involving xenogenics. Below is a list of some of the places and units that do animal experiments in South Africa.

• FORT HARE UNIVERSITY
  
  
• MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
  
  
  • South African Aids Vaccine Initiative (baboons and other non-human primates)
    
  • Promec Unit (uses rats and monkeys)
    
  • Indigenous Knowledge Systems Division (uses monkeys)
    
  • The Nutritional Intervention Research Unit (uses monkeys)
    
  • Diabetes Research Group (uses rats and monkeys)
    
  • Interuniversity Cape Heart Research Group (uses, mice, pigs, baboons and rabbits)
    
    
• NELSON MANDELA METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY
  
  
• RHODES UNIVERSITY
  
  
• TSHWANE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
  
  
• UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN
  
  
  • Cardiothoracic Surgery
    
  • UCT/MRC Liver Research Centre
    
  • Clinical Laboratory Sciences
    
  • Human Biology
    
  • Surgery
    
  • Medicine
    
  • Medical Virology
    
    
• UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL
  
  
  • Biomedical Resource Unit
    
  • Pharmacology and Physiology
    
    
• UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA
  
  
  • Onderstepoort (includes: University of Pretoria Biomedical Research Centre, Onderstepoort Biological Products and Faculty of Veterinary Science and the ARC-Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute)
    
  • Department of Zoology and Entomology
    
  • Atomic Energy Corporation Institute for Life Sciences
    
  • School of Health Systems & Public Health
    
  • Department of Anatomy
    
  • Physiology and Urology
    
  • Phytomedicine Division
    
  • Surgery
    
  • Pharmacology
    
    
• UNIVERSITY OF STELLENBOSCH
  
  
• UNIVERSITY OF THE FREE STATE
  
  
• UNIVERSITY OF THE NORTH WEST (vervet monkeys, rats, mice, guinea pigs)
  
  
• UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE
  
  
• UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND
  
  
  • Bone Research Unit (baboons)
    
  • Dental Research Institute/Experimental Odontology (rabbits, baboons)
    
  • Physiology and Medicine (ducks, mice, rats, goats, baboons and other wild animals)