The Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute (Wits RHI) was established by Professor Helen Rees in 1994 to support the new South African government formulate and implement new national policies around sexual and reproductive health. Wits RHI aim is to:

Understand pathways for intervention
Improve access to quality services
Expand prevention and treatment choices
Generate data for policy and programming
Build research capacity to expand generation and application of evidence

Wits RHI is part of the Faculty of Health Sciences and the largest research institute of the University of the Witwatersrand. Wits RHI is a UNAIDS and South African Medical Research Council (MRC) collaborating centre as well as a United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) strategic partner.