Laboratory Assistant - (6 Months Fixed Term Contract - Wits MRU)

Recruiter: AJ Personnel

Job Ref: JHB /EvdM

Date posted: Tuesday, February 24, 2026

Location: Durban, South Africa

Salary: Monthly

Summary

Background

• Wits Maternal, Adolescent and Child Health Research Unit (Wits MRU) aim to answer priority questions that will translate into improving sexual and reproductive health outcomes through expanding access to appropriate and acceptable health technologies and services
• Our core research areas are contraception including barrier methods, HIV prevention, safer conception, menstrual management, postpartum depression, and other areas of sexual and reproductive health.
• Wits MRU engages in pivotal research conducted with vulnerable populations, including youth, sex workers, and residents of informal settlements
• Using a range of methodologies, we conduct behavioural, operations and clinical research, actively par...