She later added 'Especially that Christmas is next week. 'Learning about culture is awesome, but I don't want it tattooed on my daughter, it is not our culture,' said Ms. Samour told Click 2 Houston that while the family did receive this email from the school, it was her husband who read it and it made no difference as neither one of them had heard of henna tattoos. The school points out however that they did notify parents that their children would be getting henna tattoos as part of Multicultural Day, where they also learned about the cultures of Spain, the United States, Australia and Israel. 'It's upsetting to go through Christmas with another religion's celebratory symbolism all over my daughter's hands,' Ms. Samour says she never gave the school permission to give her daughter Leah, 7, the tattoos (above), and now they will not wash off her hands Centre for Tuberculosis Biomarker-Targeted Intervention led by Mark Hatherill with Tom Scriba, Robert Wilkinson, Robin Wood and Mark Nicol, and Rod Dawson (UCT).Disbelief: Ms.Clinical and Community HIV-Tuberculosis Research Collaborating Centre headed by Graeme Meintjes, together with Keren Middelkoop, Linda-Gail Bekker, Robert Wilkinson and Robin Wood, and collaborators Gary Maartens and Tom Scriba.Two SAMRC Collaborating Centres on TB or HIV research, with collaborators based in other UCT departments or South African institutions: Precision and Genomic Medicine Research Unit - PGM ( Raj Ramesar).Molecular Mycobateriology Research Unit - MMRU ( Valerie Mizrahi and Digby Warner).Drug Discovery and Development Research Unit - H3D ( Kelly Chibale).Three extramural research units of the South African Medical Research Council: The Desmond Tutu HIV Centre (DTHC), which includes Robin Wood (Director), Linda-Gail Bekker (Deputy Director), Catherine Orrell and Keren Middelkoop.The Wellcome Centre for Infectious Diseases Research in Africa (CIDRI-Africa) which includes Robert Wilkinson (Director), Graeme Meintjes, Catherine Riou and Anna Coussens.The South African TB Vaccine Initiative (SATVI), which includes Mark Hatherill (Director), Tom Scriba (Deputy Director) and Elisa Nemes.Three multi-investigator groups that operate principally in the TB/HIV space:
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